1 Voice techniques (articulation, pace, Understand the Class Bonding/ Reflection on last term Yellow and red pause, pitch, projection, tone and differences Discuss Unit of Work Commedia Dell’arte tags – emphasis) between high and Warm up activity (At teacher discretion) low status Fruit Salad, Name tag, Ball Tag etc Ball Movement techniques (facial characters TAG TAILS RED VS YELLOW expression, posture, gesture, gait, Extension activity Red turns into Master > yellow weight, space, time, energy, and turns into servant. Second round servants cannot proxemics) take masters tag but servants can ‘protect themselves’ by sticking together. Link back to Identifying the way Drama conventions and Drama forms Commedia our body’s feel, – and styles for devised drama: Q- How do the servants change their body and move, react and structures performance as a news approach to the situation who we become station with conflicts behind the once we know our NOSE LEADING ACTIVITY scenes. place Students get into pairs, person A is Master and person B is servant. Master holds out finger in front Drama processes and The elements of of the servant’s nose and the servant must keep a Understand being the drama (role, character and steady eye on the master’s finger and follow it at all puppet and being the times. relationships, situation, voice, puppeteer, as all Masters then sit in the audience and the movement, space and time, mood and characters have the mannerisms of the servants. atmosphere, dramatic tension) focusing ability to be lead astray, SWAP Masters/Servants. lead astray, lead on characterization developed through Reflection/closure towards disaster, the combination of physical and How do peoples body reflect their manipulated, tempted psychological approaches to role and status? as well as the
1 Understand the differences between high and low status characters Identifying the way our body’s feel, move, react and who we become once we know our place Understand being the puppet and being the puppeteer, as all characters have the ability to be lead astray, lead astray, lead towards disaster, manipulated, tempted as well as the Class Bonding/ Reflection on last term Discuss Unit of Work – Commedia Dell’arte Warm up activity (At teacher discretion) Fruit Salad, Name tag, Ball Tag etc TAG TAILS RED VS YELLOW Extension activity Red turns into Master > yellow turns into servant. Second round servants cannot take masters tag but servants can ‘protect themselves’ by sticking together. Link back to Commedia – Q- How do the servants change their body and approach to the situation NOSE LEADING ACTIVITY Students get into pairs, person A is Master and person B is servant. Master holds out finger in front of the servant’s nose and the servant must keep a steady eye on the master’s finger and follow it at all times. Masters then sit in the audience and the mannerisms of the servants. SWAP Masters/Servants. Reflection/closure How do peoples body reflect their status? Voice techniques (articulation, pace, pause, pitch, projection, tone and emphasis) Movement techniques (facial expression, posture, gesture, gait, weight, space, time, energy, and proxemics) Drama conventions and Drama forms and styles for devised drama: structures performance as a news station with conflicts behind the scenes. Drama processes and The elements of drama (role, character and relationships, situation, voice, movement, space and time, mood and atmosphere, dramatic tension) focusing on characterization developed through the combination of physical and psychological approaches to role and Yellow and red tags Ball
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