Multimedia evidence during practical assessment Year 8. Key Stage 3 Drama. Unit 2. How can I develop my performance skills and rehearsal processes through a new theatrical technique and genre? Enquiry questions, concepts Teaching activities Learning outcomes CCF and COL and processes Lesson One Creating frozen images To allow students to think PLTS What are the stock around the space of stock about and begin to explore ECM characters used and found character characteristics, the genre of Melodrama WCD in Victorian Melodrama? e.g. brave, confident, evil, COL How do we show these frightened, graceful, To begin to understand the characters physically? heroic, pleading, sinister, term ‘stock characters’ weak, submissive, villainous. DC Create paired tableaux of To allow students to DP opposite characteristics, experiment physically with APP e.g evil and frightened. facial expression, posture, Images must consider gesture and body language status and relationship. to portray status and Spotlight and evaluate. relationships – Explore stock characters PLTS hero, villain, damsel in ECM distress, sidekick, royalty, WCD sick relative COL Students to work in groups and explore a basic stereotypical melodramatic plotline through either image and narration or short scenes. Bring to life as whole class performance
Multimedia evidence during practical assessment Year 8. Key Stage 3 Drama. Unit 2. How can I develop my performance skills and rehearsal processes through a new theatrical technique and genre? Enquiry questions, concepts and processes Teaching activities Learning outcomes CCF and COL Lesson One What are the stock characters used and found in Victorian Melodrama? How do we show these characters physically? DC DP APP Creating frozen images around the space of stock character characteristics, e.g. brave, confident, evil, frightened, graceful, heroic, pleading, sinister, weak, submissive, villainous. Create paired tableaux of opposite characteristics, e.g evil and frightened. Images must consider status and relationship. Spotlight and evaluate. Explore stock characters – hero, villain, damsel in distress, sidekick, royalty, sick relative Students to work in groups and explore a basic stereotypical melodramatic plotline through either image and narration or short scenes. Bring to life as whole class performance To allow students to think about and begin to explore the genre of Melodrama To begin to understand the term ‘stock characters’ To allow students to experiment physically with facial expression, posture, gesture and body language to portray status and relationships PLTS ECM WCD COL PLTS ECM WCD COL
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