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• 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

• 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

• VCADRP044

  Perform devised and scripted drama making deliberate artistic choices and shaping design elements to unify dramatic meaning for an audience

  Elaborations

  • working collaboratively as a member of a creative team to direct the blocking and staging of dramatic action to communicate intended meaning(s) for an audience
  • exploring the impact of design elements and technology on dramatic meaning by using costumes, props, sound, multimedia and lighting, and considering impact of drama they view and evaluating options for their own work
  • using evaluative questions to maintain a focus on creative aims and intentions, for example, at critical stages through the play-making processes asking a series of questions such as ‘How are the elements of drama being used to convey ideas? How are materials manipulated in this drama? How are the director and performers shaping skills and processes to make and communicate meaning? How are design elements being used?

  VCADRP044 | The Arts | Drama | Levels 9 and 10 | Present and Perform

• Drama: Levels 5 and 6 achievement standards

  By the end of Level 6, students use the elements of drama to shape character, voice and movement in improvisation, play-building and performances of devised and scripted drama for audiences.

  Students explain how dramatic action and meaning is communicated in drama they make, perform and view. They...

  Level description | The Arts | Drama | Levels 5 and 6

• Drama: Levels 3 and 4 achievement standards

  By the end of Level 4, students use relationships, tension, time and place and narrative structure when improvising and performing devised and scripted drama. They use performance skills to communicate ideas and create a sense of time and place in their drama.

  Students describe and discuss similarities...

  Level description | The Arts | Drama | Levels 3 and 4

• Drama: Levels 7 and 8 achievement standards

  By the end of Level 8, students devise, interpret and perform drama. They manipulate the elements of drama, narrative and structure to control and communicate meaning. They apply different performance styles and conventions to convey status, relationships and intentions. They use performance skills...

  Level description | The Arts | Drama | Levels 7 and 8

• The Arts | Drama: Learning in Drama

  Learning in Drama involves students making, performing, analysing and responding to drama, drawing on human experience as a source of ideas. Students engage with the knowledge of drama, develop skills, apply techniques and process and use materials and technologies as they explore a range of forms...

  Overview material | Drama

• Drama: Levels 7 and 8 description

  In Levels 7 and 8, students make and respond to drama independently, and with their peers, teachers and communities.

  Students build on their understanding of role, character and relationships. They use voice and movement to sustain character and situation. They use focus, tension, space and...

  Level description | The Arts | Drama

• Drama: Levels 5 and 6 description

  In Levels 5 and 6, students continue to make, perform view devised and scripted drama, independently and collaboratively with their peers, teachers and communities.

  Students develop character through voice and movement and extend their understanding and use of situation, focus, tension, space and...

  Level description | The Arts | Drama

• Drama: Levels 3 and 4 description

  In Levels 3 and 4, students learn by making and responding to drama, independently and collaboratively, with their peers and teachers.

  Through activities that focus on sharing and communicating, students extend their understanding of role and situation as they offer, accept and extend their ideas...

  Level description | The Arts | Drama

• The Arts | Drama: Structure

  Strands

  The curriculum is structured around four interdependent strands, each of which involves making and responding.

  Strand	Explore and Express Ideas	Drama Practices	Present and Perform	Respond and Interpret
  	Focuses on imagining and creating characters, roles and situations. Students...

  Overview material | Drama

• VCADRD036

  Develop and refine expressive skills in voice and movement to communicate ideas and dramatic action in different performance styles and conventions

  Elaborations

  • developing and refining vocal qualities of audibility, clarity and contrast through control of pace, pitch, dynamics and use of pause and silence
  • developing use of performance techniques and conventions relevant to selected performance styles, for example, refining use of the body to communicate through movement and stillness, and through realistic and non-realistic movement; and exploring ways to transition between scenes
  • employing voice and movement appropriate to situation and manipulating space and time in dramatic action to heighten tension, focus action and shape meaning in a scripted drama
  • developing techniques to engage an audience, for example, by expressing and experiencing character relationships through vocal dynamics and tone, eye contact, proximity and space

  VCADRD036 | The Arts | Drama | Levels 7 and 8 | Drama Practices

• 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

• VCADRR045

  Evaluate how the elements of drama, forms and performance styles in devised and scripted drama to convey meaning and aesthetic effect

  Elaborations

  • analysing how the elements of drama are manipulated to focus the dramatic action for audiences and using this information to refine drama they make
  • evaluating how the features and conventions of forms and styles create dramatic meaning and theatrical effect
  • evaluating how ideas and emotions shape the expressive qualities and staging of forms and styles in their own and others’ drama
  • considering how drama theory has been used in creating and performing the text
  • using questions as the basis for an evaluative discussion, for example, ‘How successful were the actors and director in conveying the playwright’s stated intent? How successfully have the design elements been incorporated into the drama?’

  VCADRR045 | The Arts | Drama | Levels 9 and 10 | Respond and Interpret

• VCADRR032

  Explain how the elements of drama and production elements communicate meaning by comparing drama from different social, cultural and historical contexts, including in the drama of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples

  Elaborations

  • reviewing their own drama, outlining how they used elements of drama and narrative structures and the consequences of collaborative processes
  • identifying and discussing different performance styles and the portrayal of different roles and relationships in the drama
  • talking and writing about drama from other places and times and how it may contribute to their own drama, and how cultural understandings shape meanings in drama
  • identify the features of drama from different times and places, for example, investigate ways that drama created by contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander drama practitioners and drama created by contemporary drama practitioners based in a school’s/region’s sister city in Asia, communicate stories

  VCADRR032 | The Arts | Drama | Levels 5 and 6 | Respond and Interpret