Drama / Year 7 and 8 / Creating and making

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Curriculum content descriptions

evaluate and refine use of elements of drama and/or conventions to shape and sustain dramatic action and/or communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning (AC9ADR8C02)

Elaborations
  • refining drama during the rehearsal process by using feedback, evaluation, documentation and personal reflection, after using Viewpoints to ask questions such as “What are your intentions in the drama you are making?”, “Is the meaning clear?”, “How could elements, conventions, design (costume, props, setting) and performance skills (voice and movement) be used differently to achieve these effects?”
  • adjusting performance based on audience response; for example, characters portrayal of emotion or delivery of lines to make meaning clear
  • planning, organising and rehearsing dramatic action to stage devised and scripted drama; for example, arranging use of available theatre technologies and collaborating in rehearsal to stage drama for a clear and intended purpose and effect, considering choices within the overall structure
  • considering how and why empathy should be considered when creating effects and communicating intended meaning; for example, exploring conventions for developing characters and stories in drama from a range of cultures
General capabilities
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and Creative Thinking
  • Personal and social capability Personal and Social capability
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Drama (Arts)

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Be on the Safe Side Year 7-8 The Arts (Drama)

  • TLF-IDM019249

This webpage includes a unit of work that uses the concept of rail safety and the setting of the rail network to explore character, roles and situations; there is a particular focus on bullying and the bystander effect. Learning opportunities for students include scripting, performing and revising their own drama. The resource ...

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Interactive

Lights, camera, action!

  • TLF-IDM025952

Students explore screenwriting for video drama.

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Interactive

I like to move it, move it!

  • TLF-IDM025930

Engage the body to tell stories and entertain audiences. Explore the techniques of expressive physical movement to communicate ideas and create dramatic meaning. Students devise a story using mime, movement and gesture.

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Interactive

Drop the mic – hip hop and Shakespeare

  • TLF-IDM025941

A fresh and fun approach to Hip Hop theatre exploring, words, rhythm, movement, voice and creative writing. Drop The Mic Hip Hop Theatre class aims to develop voice, rhythm, physicality and character skills.

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Interactive

Beats and rhymes

  • TLF-IDM025938

This class develops your vocal skills for performance. Write a Slam Poem or a Rap and then perform them for an audience.

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Interactive

Stories in the dark

  • TLF-IDM025937

This resource is designed to support Stage 4 drama students in understanding the characteristics of good radio plays and learning to use vocal expression to create clear and engaging characters. They will rehearse, perform and record a short radio play that can be shared with an audience.

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Interactive

Make ‘em laugh

  • TLF-IDM025935

See how effective comedy is in communicating ideas and engaging an audience. Good performances will have moments of humour and seriousness in order to provide variety and interest in the stories being told.

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Interactive

Musical theatre – drama

  • TLF-IDM025931

Discover the dramatic style of musical theatre through performance. Explore the origins and theatrical conventions and techniques of musical theatre as a performance style. Students will create a character performance based on a musical theatre piece.

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Interactive

Lip sync challenge

  • TLF-IDM025925

Students will develop expressive movement skills to perform a Lip Sync Challenge. They will explore character, rhythm, movement, sound and tension and reflect on their own performance skills.

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Interactive

Characterisation stereotypes

  • TLF-IDM025911

Develop and build engaging characters through stereotypes and using through role play and improvisation using voice, body and dialogue. Perform a devised character scenario to engage an audience.

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Video

Hannie Rayson on writing complex roles for women

  • TLF-IDM020009

Watch as Hannie Rayson describes her early desire to write multidimensional, complex roles for women in her plays. What was this in response to?  Why is it important for audiences to see female characters as well as male characters driving drama in plays? 

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Film it! Screenwriting

  • TLF-IDA002447

Screenwriting is the act of writing what's known as a script or screenplay for film, television and web series. It involves a special set of rules that makes it different from a book or play. This module of Film It covers formatting, scene writing, script structure, themes, and character. Writing the script is part of ...

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