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• VCADRD043

  Structure drama to engage an audience through manipulation of dramatic action, forms and performance styles and by using design elements

  Elaborations

  • learning and applying basic concepts for interpreting texts and contexts, directing dramatic action, and using available technologies
  • focusing and strengthening the dramatic action by manipulating pace in movement and dialogue, cues, vocal tone, physical proximity between characters and transitions
  • structuring the performance space to convey dramatic meaning and sense of style for an audience
  • exploring realistic, non-realistic, innovative and hybrid dramatic forms and performance styles
  • using questions to guide play-making process when devising drama, for example, What personal meaning is intended? What political statement is this work making? How have you used critical theories about drama to make your own drama? What emotion do you want the audience to feel?

  VCADRD043 | The Arts | Drama | Levels 9 and 10 | Drama Practices

• VCADRD014

  Use voice, facial expression, movement and/or space to express ideas and feelings about their world

  Elaborations

  • communicate a character’s feelings at specific points in a familiar story
  • provided with a variety of learning experience that encourage them to express and communicate experiences, observations, ideas and feelings about themselves and their world
  • participate in simple drama activities and use gesture, sound and facial expression to communicate a character’s feelings
  • communicating verbally by using the voice to explore and show role and situation
  • communicating non-verbally by using facial expression and movement to explore and show role and situation

  VCADRD014 | The Arts | Drama | Level D | Drama Practices

• VCADRD030

  Develop skills and techniques of voice and movement to create character, mood and atmosphere and focus dramatic action

  Elaborations

  • varying use of voice, for example, projection, dynamics, pace, pause and pitch, to create and communicate characters’ intentions
  • rehearsing, interacting and negotiating with others in interpretation of scripts to create characters and their relationships
  • adjusting the weight (heaviness or lightness of movement), speed, use of stillness, levels in movement through space, to focus on character and situation and create dramatic action
  • altering voice and movement to show changes in mood and atmosphere, and to create images, effects and an engaging delivery
  • using evaluations to refine practice, for example, ‘How did the performers use the elements of drama and design elements effectively? For what purposes did they make drama? What evidence supports their judgment about the drama?’

  VCADRD030 | The Arts | Drama | Levels 5 and 6 | Drama Practices

• VCADRD006

  Use voice, facial expression, and/or movement to imitate role and situation

  Elaborations

  • exploring personal control of the body in movement and stillness
  • moving basic body parts to copy dramatizations and teacher directions
  • following the teacher’s directions to use movement
  • exploring voices, movements and spaces in structured drama session
  • communicating non-verbally by using facial expression and movement to show a role
  • manipulating objects, puppets, 2D images and available technologies to create stories

  VCADRD006 | The Arts | Drama | Level B | Drama Practices

• VCADRE013

  Explore how characters express ideas in dramatic play

  Elaborations

  • creating a play about a social situation
  • creating a play with a social purpose
  • using gesture, sound and/ or facial expressions to communicate a character’s feelings at different points in a familiar story
  • taking part in purposeful dramatic play focusing on experiencing the roles and situations they create
  • exploring possibilities for role and situation when participating in whole group teacher-led process drama and role play
  • learning how to work safely during drama activities and following safety rules of the space

  VCADRE013 | The Arts | Drama | Level D | Explore and Express Ideas

• VCADRE009

  Explore ideas for characters in dramatic play

  Elaborations

  • creating and making dramatization in structured situations
  • communicating basic feelings through simple role play
  • participating in creative play activities, for example dress ups
  • participating in dramatic play
  • improvises responses to drama
  • participating in whole group teacher-led process drama and role play

  VCADRE009 | The Arts | Drama | Level C | Explore and Express Ideas

• VCADRE040

  Improvise with the elements of drama and narrative structure to develop ideas, and explore subtext to shape devised and scripted drama

  Elaborations

  • communicating meaning through realistic and non-realistic performance styles and dramatic forms by manipulating the elements of drama
  • establishing aspects of the dramatic action as symbolic, such as a suitcase being a person’s memories, a light symbolising hope
  • exploring the implied or underlying aspects of character and dramatic action
  • using questions to frame devising process, for example, What personal meaning is intended? What political statement is this work making? How have you used critical theories about drama to make your own drama? What emotion was most strongly felt as you viewed the drama?

  VCADRE040 | The Arts | Drama | Levels 9 and 10 | Explore and Express Ideas

• VCADRE033

  Combine the elements of drama in devised and scripted drama to explore and develop issues, ideas and themes

  Elaborations

  • investigating and researching starting points for drama, for example, ‘What was the performer’s/director’s/playwright’s intention for this drama? or How were symbols used to convey a message in the drama?’
  • evaluating their peers’ responses to questions about an issue or image
  • working with different combinations of the elements of drama to create and sustain dramatic situations and show contrast
  • experimenting with linear and non-linear narratives to focus dramatic action and tension

  VCADRE033 | The Arts | Drama | Levels 7 and 8 | Explore and Express Ideas

• VCADRE041

  Manipulate combinations of the elements of drama to develop and convey the physical and psychological aspects of roles and characters consistent with intentions in dramatic forms and performance styles

  Elaborations

  • analyse and create performance highlighting subtext, dramatic tension, atmosphere and mood based on the story, setting, dialogue and stage directions
  • apply the conventions of character in particular forms and performance styles, using research to develop understanding of the conventions and refining use of relevant techniques
  • using questions to build an understanding of ways context can influence creative choices, for example, how does the drama relate to the social context in which it was created? What culturally symbolic movements are evident in this drama? What historical influences might be evident in contemporary drama created by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples? How are global trends in drama influencing Australian drama?

  VCADRE041 | The Arts | Drama | Levels 9 and 10 | Explore and Express Ideas

• VCADRE029

  Explore dramatic action, empathy and space in improvisations, play-building and scripted drama, to develop characters and situations

  Elaborations

  • experimenting with empathy to develop characters and relationships in drama including considering perspectives, exploring responses and challenging stereotypes
  • exploring physical, fictional and emotional spaces to create characters and situations and imagined feelings, for example, considering questions such as ‘How is the voice, movement, gesture and the body used to represent a character, situation or idea?’
  • manipulating dramatic action and use of available technologies to create different meanings
  • comparing different ways improvisation and scripted drama create characters and action, and evaluating drama from other cultures including considering how they can use specific techniques relating to voice, movement, situation, space and time, and tension in their own work

  VCADRE029 | The Arts | Drama | Levels 5 and 6 | Explore and Express Ideas

• VCADRE005

  Use structured dramatic play to explore ideas

  Elaborations

  • imitating the teacher to express and dramatise different feelings
  • coping and acting like a particular object or animal
  • exploring dress up and drama costumes
  • making a choice between (a limited field) of different costume or prop
  • participating in whole group teacher led process drama and role play
  • experience through teacher lead experiences how to use their voices in different ways and make different movements for different roles

  VCADRE005 | The Arts | Drama | Level B | Explore and Express Ideas

• VCADRE001

  Experience elements of dramatic play with support

  Elaborations

  • provided with rich sensory experiences that give them opportunities to explore sights, sounds, smells, textures of drama
  • wearing a costume or coactively hold a costume/prop
  • exploring loco-motor and/ or non-loco-motor movements with assistance
  • experiencing taking part in purposeful dramatic play
  • exposed to drama forms and elements; for example use of voices, various movements or different movements for different roles, reacting to voice and movement of self/others

  VCADRE001 | The Arts | Drama | Level A | Explore and Express Ideas

• VCADRE017

  Explore ideas for characters and situations through dramatic play

  Elaborations

  • taking part in purposeful dramatic play
  • using stimuli such as stories, poems, music and images to explore ideas and feelings, for example, working with a local Koorie person to explore the way characters in a story might move or feel
  • experimenting with dramatic forms such as mime and puppetry
  • using own experiences and observations as a basis for creating imaginary worlds and characters using available objects as props, responding to questions such as what voice and movement have you noticed in others’ performances that could be used in their drama

  VCADRE017 | The Arts | Drama | Foundation Level | Explore and Express Ideas

• VCADRE021

  Explore roles, characters and dramatic action in dramatic play, improvisation and process drama

  Elaborations

  • taking part in small-group improvisations and story-telling, focusing on experiencing the roles and situations they create
  • taking turns in offering and accepting ideas
  • exploring possibilities for role and situation when participating in whole group teacher-led process drama and role-play
  • taking photos or videoing drama they devise to view and extend their drama ideas
  • using observations from drama they view to explore possibilities for drama they will make, for example, how did the performers use their voices, what sorts of movements did the performers use, and what voice and movement from others’ performances they might consider using when making their own drama, and why?

  VCADRE021 | The Arts | Drama | Levels 1 and 2 | Explore and Express Ideas

• VCADRE025

  Explore ideas and narrative structures through roles and situations and use empathy in their own improvisations and devised drama

  Elaborations

  • exploring and experiencing a range of roles and situations that they initiate and develop
  • making improvisations that explore issues and ideas using empathy
  • using elements of drama such as voice, movement, situation, time and place, and tension and the principles of stories to shape improvisations to communicate their intentions as drama makers
  • experimenting with tension, and creating dramatic meaning to sustain improvisations and process dramas
  • discussing how ideas and situations are developed in drama they see, for example, how did the drama begin, develop and conclude?, ‘How are elements of drama such as role, situation, time and place part of the action?, ‘How is the dramatic tension developed?’

  VCADRE025 | The Arts | Drama | Levels 3 and 4 | Explore and Express Ideas

• VCADRE034

  Develop roles and characters consistent with situation, dramatic forms and performance styles to convey status, relationships and intentions

  Elaborations

  • creating roles and characters by analysing and managing the underlying structure and intent of the drama
  • developing techniques relevant to dramatic forms, for example, applying established conventions and traditions
  • using observations of human behaviour, emotions and empathy to convey roles and characters
  • using questions to explore possibilities, for example, ‘What were the actor/director’s intentions in this drama? What are their intentions in the drama they are making? What ideas did they think the drama expressed? How did they engage with the drama?’

  VCADRE034 | The Arts | Drama | Levels 7 and 8 | Explore and Express Ideas

• VCADRP015

  Present drama that communicates major elements of stories and/or experiences

  Elaborations

  • perform in a simple drama/play
  • demonstrate acceptable audience behaviour in the classroom and when attending school functions
  • explore or re-enacting cultural or community story with the assistance of representatives from the community
  • rehearsing and performing sequences of ideas to communicate stories through drama
  • exploring viewpoints related to meaning and interpretations: For example – What do you want your audience to think about your drama? What did this drama make you think about? How did you feel when making/watching the drama?
  • exploring evaluations: What did you like best in the drama? Why?

  VCADRP015 | The Arts | Drama | Level D | Present and Perform

• VCADRP031

  Perform devised and scripted drama that develops narrative and uses performance styles and design elements to engage an audience

  Elaborations

  • creating narrative and tension to communicate dramatic meaning
  • exploring and applying different performance styles, and drawing on drama from other locations, cultures and times as sources of ideas in their own drama, and considering any protocols for representing community or cultural stories in performance, for example, working with the local Koorie community to create a drama about the different uses of the land on which the school is situated
  • using evaluative questions to refine drama during rehearsal, for example ‘What do you intend audiences to experience and understand from the drama?’

  VCADRP031 | The Arts | Drama | Levels 5 and 6 | Present and Perform

• VCADRP003

  Be involved in sharing ideas through drama

  Elaborations

  • making and sharing drama when supported such as holding prop or costume or completing some actions coactively
  • experiencing voice and movement in their drama
  • exposed to rehearsing and performing a drama

  VCADRP003 | The Arts | Drama | Level A | Present and Perform

• VCADRP027

  Shape and perform dramatic action using narrative structures and tension in devised and scripted drama

  Elaborations

  • considering ideas from drama they watch such as contemporary drama written/performed by an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander drama practitioner when shaping own drama, for example, which characters they identify with, and what relationships and situations do they recognise?
  • applying story structures in their drama, including roles and events linked through cause and effect and dramatic tension, for example, exploring local Aboriginal stories and how they are dramatically portrayed as a reference for shaping their own drama
  • performing their improvised sections of process drama and play-building
  • planning and rehearsing their drama for a live or virtual performance, for example, a short scripted drama with a sense of role, situation and dramatic tension
  • evaluating drama they perform, for example, ‘How well did they collaborate to make drama? What worked best in the drama?’

  VCADRP027 | The Arts | Drama | Levels 3 and 4 | Present and Perform