School - Upper School Subjects

The units in this course focus on exploring drama in the first semester and dramatic action in the second.  

In 1ADRA students will explore drama conventions, techniques, skills and technologies. Through performance projects students extend their understanding and application of voice and movement skills and techniques and the way that stories and ideas are communicated through actors interacting with the performance space using technologies such as sets, lighting and sound.

In 2ADRA students will cover representational and/or realistic drama forms and styles and will explore techniques of characterisation through different approaches to text interpretation, particularly those based on the work of Stanislavski.  Students consider
audience/performance relationships.  They analyse the way drama technologies have been developed to represent realistic sets, situations and characters in a variety of performance spaces.

Drama Outcomes:
•    Drama Ideas
•    Drama Skills, Techniques and Processes
•    Drama Responses
•    Drama in Society

At Year 12 level, Drama Studies aims to develop more complex communication and performance skills than those included in Year 11 Drama Studies (D647).  It seeks evidence of greater involvement in terms of understanding and practice.
The essence of Drama Studies is in the four essential elements:  Performance; Workshop; Text and Heritage; and Drama Folio; which are interconnected and inter-related.

The Year 12 Drama Studies syllabus reflects the needs of students considering applying for tertiary entrance at the end of Year 12.  This subject emphasises the development of skills in interpretation of dramatic texts, individual expression through the creation of performance, refinement of verbal and non-verbal techniques, creation and shaping of dramatic action, analysis of forms and styles of drama and synthesis of drama concepts.

DRAMA
Year 11 - 1ADRA / 1BDRA
                2ADRA / 2BDRA

Prerequisite:
Entry Level 4/5

Homework/Home Study
Requirements: Minimum 3 hours per week

(Target)
Year 12 – E634

RESOURCES
Cost:    $40.00


DRAMA STUDIES
(Tertiary)
Year 12 – E647

Homework / Home Study Requirements:  A minimum of 3 hours per week.

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