Senior Handbook 2012 - Marian College

Senior Handbook 2012
Drama Units 1 & 2
Drama Unit 1
Dramatic Storytelling
This unit focuses on creating, presenting and analysing
a devised performance that includes real or imagined
characters, based on personal, cultural and/or
community experiences and stories. Students examine
storytelling through the creation of solo and/or
ensemble devised performance/s and manipulate
expressive skills in the creation and presentation of
characters. They develop an awareness and
understanding of how characters are portrayed in
naturalistic and non-naturalistic performance style/ s.
Students also gain an awareness of how performance
is shaped and given meaning. They investigate a range
of stimulus material and learn about stagecraft,
theatrical conventions and performance styles from a
range of social and cultural contexts.
OUTCOMES
Outcome 1: On completion of this unit the student
should be able to use play-making techniques to
devise solo and/or ensemble drama work/s based on
experiences and/or stories, as well as describes the
dramatic processes used to shape and develop this
performance work/s.
Outcome 2: On completion of this unit the student
should be able to use expressive skills, theatrical
conventions and stagecraft to perform stories and
characters to an audience.
Outcome 3: On completion of this unit the student
should be able to analyse the development and
performance of work created and presented in
Outcomes 1 and 2.
Outcome 4: On completion of this unit the student
should be able to identify and evaluate use of
performance styles, and describe use of theatrical
conventions, stagecraft and dramatic elements, as
well as analyse the portrayal of stories and characters
in a drama performance.
ASSESSMENT
Demonstrate the use of play-making techniques to
devise and rehearse a solo and/or ensemble
drama work/s based on stories and/or characters;
• document use of processes to create and develop
stories and characters in drama.
A performance of a solo and/or ensemble devised
drama work/s that features stories & characters
An analysis of the drama work created and performed
in Outcomes 1 and 2 in one of the following
formats
– a written report A multimedia presentation
– an essay Structured questions
– an oral presentation A written analysis
Drama Unit 2
Creating Australian Drama
This unit focuses on the use and documentation of the
processes involved in constructing a devised solo or
ensemble performance. Students create, present and
analyse a performance based on a person, an event,
an issue, a place, an art work, a text and/or an icon
from a contemporary or historical Australian context.
OUTCOMES
Outcome 1: On completion of this unit the student
should be able to use a range of stimulus material to
create a solo or ensemble performance work as well
as document and record the play-making techniques
used to shape and develop this performance work.
Outcome 2: On completion of this unit the student
should be able to demonstrate the effective use and
manipulation of dramatic elements, theatrical
conventions and stagecraft in the presentation of a
performance work to an audience.
Outcome 3: On completion of this unit the student
should be able to analyse and evaluate the creation,
development and performance of characters, as well
as the use and manipulation of theatrical conventions,
stagecraft and dramatic elements as applied to the
performance style/s of the student’s own
performance work.
Outcome 4: On completion of this unit the student
should be able to identify use of theatrical
conventions, describe performance style/s and
analyse and evaluate how dramatic elements have
been used in a drama performance.
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