AQA GCSE Drama devising and performance overview quiz quiz

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60%

The polished final performance shown to the visiting examiner at the end

The written exam paper sat under timed conditions at the end of the course

The set play studied in Component 1

The starting point provided by AQA, such as a word, image, text or music

Hot-seating

Blocking

Blackout

Penetration testing

It is scripted once at the start and simply learned by heart for performance

Material is rehearsed, reviewed and refined repeatedly

It uses only a single stimulus

It never changes at all after the very first rehearsal has taken place

MAC address filtering

A proscenium arch

Flashback

A data booklet

The longest possible running time to fill the whole performance slot

The personal preference of the class teacher rather than the group

The plot of the set play studied earlier in Component 1

One clear intention and its intended effect on the audience

20%, it documents and evaluates the devising process

10%, it provides the full word-for-word script of the devised performance

40%, it is submitted instead of the devised performance and replaces it

60%, it is marked on the day by a visiting AQA examiner

Writing the script, learning the lines, then performing on the night

Creating, developing and refining, and analysing and evaluating

Choosing a stimulus, rehearsing the piece and designing the costume

Building the set, sewing the costume and rigging the stage lighting

Narration of the whole project story is strictly banned by AQA inside the log entries

Reflection is always shorter and so takes up less of the word count

The marks reward explaining and judging your own choices, not retelling what happened

Narration is only allowed inside the performance, never in the written log

An original devised piece created in response to an AQA stimulus

A written evaluation of a live theatre production seen during the course

A multiple-choice written test covering the different roles found in the theatre

Performing two extracts from one published play, marked by a visiting examiner

Sustaining a believable character

Choosing the staging configuration

Writing the script

Operating the lighting board

Sustaining a believable character right the way through the whole of the chosen extract carefully

Using vocal and physical skills only to show off range rather than to communicate character

Listening and responding genuinely to the other performers on stage

Realising the writer's intentions clearly for the watching audience