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Quick questions on Exploring an extract for the devised piece - OCR A-Level Drama and Theatre
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What is the extract is a source, not the outcome?Show answer
The assessed outcome of Practitioners in Practice is your original devised piece. The extract is explored to feed that piece: it is a stimulus and a testing ground, not the thing performed for assessment. Keeping this distinction clear is itself worth marks, because it shows you understand the component.
What are explore it through the practitioners?Show answer
You investigate the extract through the methods of your two practitioners. Applying a practitioner's techniques to a real scene teaches you the method in practice: what Brechtian gestus or direct address does to a moment, what a Frantic Assembly physical sequence reveals about a relationship, how Stanislavskian objectives clarify a scene. This practical investigation connects the practitioners' theory to practice, which is the core of AO1.
What is q1?Show answer
What is the role of the extract in Practitioners in Practice? [2 marks]
What is q2?Show answer
How does exploring an extract here differ from Exploring and Performing Texts? [2 marks]
What is q3?Show answer
Explain how exploring an extract through your chosen practitioners' methods generated ideas for your devised piece. [10 marks]
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