Devising and the portfolio overview quiz - Edexcel GCSE Drama quiz

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45 for the portfolio (AO1 and AO4) and 15 for the performance or design (AO2)

All 60 marks are awarded for the devised performance alone

30 marks for the written portfolio and 30 marks for the devised performance piece

All 60 marks are awarded for the written portfolio alone

Only an already published full-length play script

A poem, a photograph, a piece of music or an abstract word

Only a past Edexcel drama exam paper taken from a previous year

Only a recorded film version of an existing play

To copy the stimulus exactly and reproduce it on stage word for word

To ignore the original stimulus completely and start from nothing

To simply read the stimulus aloud to the watching audience

To use it as a springboard for an idea, theme or angle to explore

An intention gives the piece focus and guides every creative choice

It does not actually need one to succeed in the exam

Only so that it can make the finished devised piece run on for much longer

So that the company can avoid having to rehearse at all

Run the whole piece through completely unchanged in exactly the same way each and every time

Improve it: rework scenes, cut what does not serve the intention, sharpen transitions

Perform the finished piece through just once and never again

Add as many extra new scenes to the piece as you possibly can

A written portfolio only, with no other format ever being permitted at all

Just a single short sentence summarising the whole devising process

Written (1500 to 2000 words), recorded (8 to 10 minutes), or a combination

A single drawing only, with no written or recorded work allowed

They write far too little about the original chosen stimulus material

They use too much specialist technical drama vocabulary throughout

They spend far too long rehearsing the devised piece

They describe the process instead of analysing and evaluating it

Analysis explains how a choice worked; evaluation judges how well it worked against the intention

They are exactly the same thing and there is no real difference at all between the two of them anywhere

Analysis is only ever for the performance and evaluation is only ever for the chosen stimulus

Evaluation must always come before any analysis in the portfolio

It is not important at all; raw, unrestrained energy on stage is the one thing that is rewarded the most by far

AO2 credits how well the applied skills realise the intention, so a controlled performance communicates better

Control only ever matters in the written exam, never in the live devised performance

The devised performance is not actually marked at all in this component