MADDD SHOWCASE 2020
DRAMA - Year 10
Our Year in Year 10 Drama
MISA Drama PIP Day
On Wednesday, 14 October, the Drama classes from Years 9-12 all joined together for a day full of fun. The day started off with getting out of our comfort zones, splitting everyone up into groups to connect with people we didn't know whilst having fun playing a game of charades. As the day progressed we developed skills for character building, storytelling and playbuilding through the various workshops we completed. - Sarah
Easter Performance
For Year 10 Drama’s Easter performance, we told the story of Easter through animations, puppetry and voice-overs. Everyone in the class had a role to play in telling the story of Jesus’ death and resurrection. Even Mrs Talbot, our teacher, had a role to play in helping us narrate the story, doing the editing and putting together the video.
This year, because of Covid 19, we weren’t able to do the performance at the various schools in the area, but we were able to create a video based on our performance to play in front of the younger students for Easter.
Commedia dell Arte
Commedia dell’Arte originated in Italy in the 16th, being popular up to the 18th Century and is defined as an improvised kind of popular comedy based on stock characters with actors that adapted their comic dialogue and actions according to a few basic plots or topical issues. Commedia dell’Arte was performed through the use of props, with minimal staging. There are three main character types in Commedia dell’Arte; the zanni – the servants, the vecchi – the old men, and the innamorati – the lovers. - Lily M
Book Week Performance
Book Week is the annual celebration of books for young people and the joy of reading. Each year; schools, libraries and bookstores hold events to celebrate. In schools there is a Book Week parade where children and teachers dress up as characters from different books to celebrate. Each year there is a theme, and this year’s theme was ‘Curious Creatures, Wild Minds’. To help K - 2 celebrate, Year 10 Dance and Drama dressed up and performed for them. - Lily M
Christmas Collaboration - Year 10 Music, Dance and Drama
Physical Theatre
The first Drama assessment for Year 10 2020 involved two sections in which students created a researched script and video performance. This assessment was focused on showing understanding of Jacques Lecoq 7 levels of tension and Physical Theatre conventions through a chosen character. This was shown through animated facial expressions and exaggerated physical movement. To deepen understanding students needed to re-create a physical performance of Charlie Chaplin’s or Mr Bean’s performances. A monologue/script is played over the top of the video to explain, in the students own definition, the importance of physical theatre. In this assessment students were evaluated on their ability to manipulate the Elements of Drama to create belief and clarity of character. - Olwyn
Big Blockbuster Movie Trailers
We were assigned in groups to create a block buster film trailer for ‘the’ big Summer movie of 2020. We viewed this YouTube clip of ‘How To Make A Blockbuster Movie Trailer’, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAOdjqyG37A. We discovered that to create a blockbuster trailer, there needs to be suspense, tension, drama and it needs to get the viewers’ attention.
Group 1 which included Bree, Charlotte and Katie took a different path for the blockbuster film and instead of doing a stereotypical trailer, they decided to run with the themes of comedy and drama. Group 2 Izzy, Keira and Bri went with the themes of supernatural and dystopia. Group 3 Toby, Tallon, Agnes, Erin and Cheyanne chose the themes of the supernatural and adventure.
Movie Monologues
Movie Monologues + What is a monologue
A monologue is an extended speech spoken by one person either during performance or conversation, this can either be said to the audience or to another member in the performance.
Following the task of their short films and trailers, Year 10 Drama were asked to create a monologue to their character, or a character that relates to their storyline. In their monologues they were tasked to create elements of tension, symbolism and an audience actor relationship within their performance.
Approaches To Acting Workshop Series
In Term 3 in Drama we looked at approaches to actor training. Mrs Talbot showed us some different techniques for actor training including Augusto Boal’s Forum Theatre and Vsevelod Meyerhold’s Biomechanics, and then we were given a task to choose a practitioner and study their approach to acting individually. We each had to complete research, summarise findings to be presented to the class, and then plan and run a workshop using what we learnt. We each had a day where we got to teach the technique using the workshop we made. It was fun. - Lillian
