PPT-Drama 5-7: Blocking & Stage Pictures

Behavior Students will develop their blocking and stage picture skill set Conditions Students will use Stage Blocking Worksheet Teacher guided games to develop understanding Criteria . A drama is a story acted on stage for an audience.. Dramatic Elements. Dramatic elements are needed to bring a story to life on stage:. setting script speech character. props non-verbal actions conflict . What is Drama?. It is NOT what happens between you and your girlfriends. . . Drama. has one characteristic peculiar to itself - it is written primarily to be . performed. , not read. It is a presentation of action . AP English Lit. & Comp.. Drama. Drama is a performed art.. It comes to exist only through performance on a stage. If it is not performed it is simply fiction.. Drama is a visual form.. Drama can exist without words, but it cannot exist without actors in motion, actors intending to be seen.. Created with the support . of UTLSEC. Valerie Pellatt and Chia-Ying Yang. 2012. Acting words: the words. Acting words: discussion. Acting pictures: the pictures. Acting pictures: action. Speakability. Stage Directions and Blocking. Great Game of Power. Stage directions. Stage positioning. Stage movement. Stage direction game. Stage Directions. Upstage Right. Upstage Center. Upstage Left. Stage Right Center. How does drama provide the reader a different experience than prose (short stories, novels) or poetry?. How is drama different from television?. Drama. Comes from the Greek Word, . “. Dran. ”. . A story that is written with the purpose of being performed in front of an audience.. Or in other words, a play. Dramas always have 5 major elements (& often more):. Rising action. Conflict. Climax. Ice-Breaker. Take a look at the film script for . The . Monsters . A. re Due on Maple Street. .. Steve. What was that? A meteor? . Don. . [. Nods. ] That's what it looked like. I didn't hear any crash, though, did you? . Ice-Breaker. Take a look at the film script for . The . Monsters . A. re Due on Maple Street. .. Steve. What was that? A meteor? . Don. . [. Nods. ] That's what it looked like. I didn't hear any crash, though, did you? . GCSE Drama OCR Exam Board Learning Objective To develop an understanding of the components of GCSE Drama through the OCR syllabus Russell group universities The Russell group is in charge of some of our most prestigious universities in the UK. Including: Mekia Wiggins . History. The roots of Noh drama go back 1,300 years, when the performing art called . sangakuwas. . brought over from China.. Begun by . Kannami . (who was a leader of one of the performing groups at Kasuga Shrine at Nara, and his son . . Drama. has one characteristic peculiar to itself - it is written primarily to be . performed. , not read. It is a presentation of action . a. through . actors . (the impact is direct and immediate), . Drama does not rely on narration, however, presents you with speech and action.. Drama, like prose fiction, utilizes plot and characters, develops a theme, arouses emotion or appeals to humor, and may be escapist or interpretive in its dealings with life. Like poetry, it may draw upon all the resources of language, including verse . T. he beginnings of American drama. : . For Puritans, drama was the work of devil. the 1767 Philadelphia production of . Thomas Godfrey's The Prince of Parthia. I774 the Continental Congress banned plays.