F-10 Curriculum (V8)
F-10 Curriculum (V9)
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How important do you think it is to hear Australian stories told on stage? Listen as Hannie Rayson explains her early beliefs about where great drama comes from. After watching this clip, try writing a dramatic scene that takes place at a family barbeque.
How do you come up with ideas to write about? Watch this clip to find out how Australian playwright and screenwriter Hannie Rayson begins her writing process. She begins with a "big question" - if you were writing a play, what big question would you ask?
In this short video, David Williamson explains where he finds inspiration for his plays. What are his aims as a playwright?
What is the key to being funny? As Tim Ferguson explains, if you can laugh, you can write comedy. Has something funny happened to you lately? Or is there something in particular that you find puzzling or amusing about the world around you? Put your thoughts on paper and experiment with telling your story in different ways. ...
This class develops your vocal skills for performance. Write a Slam Poem or a Rap and then perform them for an audience.
This webpage includes a unit uses dance, drama, visual arts and music to communicate student-created safety messages. Using a community-based scenario, students devise an improvised drama and choreograph a dance to highlight the importance of safe track-side behaviours; they use artworks to explore the effect of colour ...
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.
Develop skills in characterisation through personal storytelling through monologues.
This webpage includes a unit uses various arts practices as the stimuli for exploring the safety message of Stop, Look, Listen, Think. Students create woven artworks to incorporate safety messages; they collaboratively develop a play about safety; and explore rap as a music form and combined with dance convey a safety ...
Using drama and visual arts students explore a world of play and imagination where nothing is as ordinary as it seems.
Explore characterisation through observation, status and movement to communicate meaning. Students will create a character through performance.
Learn the fundamentals of lighting design with lighting designer Lincoln Gidney. Explore how to apply stage lighting conveys meaning and apply this knowledge and understanding to design lighting or a scene.
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.
Develop skills in preparing and performing a character monologue.
Students explore screenwriting for video drama.
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?
Watch this clip to learn about David Williamson's background and what themes fascinate him as a playwright. What ideas does he enjoy exploring in his plays?
Explore a world of play and imagery, where nothing is as ordinary as it seems. Students respond imaginatively when using a stick as a stimulus to explore elements of drama and create characters. Students will develop their expressive skills through movement and voice. Students also create artworks using a stick as a stimulus.
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.
Discover and create different characters from a train ride through movement and voice. Use imagination to go on a train ride and draw the images you see.