OCR GCSE Drama design and technical elements overview quiz quiz

Every choice should be as elaborate and expensive as it can possibly be made

Design should always draw the audience's attention to itself rather than the action

Design is completely separate from the meaning and just decorates the stage

Every choice should communicate meaning to the audience and support the action

Distance shows relationship and height shows status

They have no real effect on the meaning of a scene and are simply practical

They only ever set the historical period in which the play is taking place

They completely replace the need for actors to move around the stage at all

It is by far the most expensive element of the whole production to put together

The audience reads it the moment a character appears, before any line

It changes the lighting design and decides where the spotlights are pointed

It is only ever used right at the very end of the play, during the final scene

Only to keep the actors comfortable and warm while they are up on the stage

To change the staging configuration from a thrust stage into a theatre in the round

To track a character's arc, such as a decline, a rise or a transformation

To replace the lighting design and decide how brightly the stage is lit

Making the whole stage as bright as it can possibly be from the start to the finish of the play

Replacing the set completely so that no scenery or furniture is needed at all

Setting the genre of the play so the audience knows whether to laugh or to cry

Directing the audience's focus, for example by isolating a character in a spotlight

A fade, snap or blackout

A proxemic shift between two actors

A monologue delivered to the audience

A thrust stage with seating on three sides

They are not important at all and have no real effect on how a scene plays out for the watching audience

The same sound can build dread or break tension depending on its volume and exactly when it lands

They only matter for the music and make no difference to any other sound effects

They change the actual words of the script and the lines the actors have to say

Showing absolutely everything that happens on the stage so nothing is left to imagine

Replacing the performers altogether so that the play can be staged with no actors

Suggesting what is not visible, such as an offstage event, and building tension

Setting the costume design and deciding what each character will wear on stage

Only the lighting design and nothing else about the way the production is staged

Writing the play and coming up with all of the lines that the characters speak

Selling the tickets for the show and making sure the whole audience finds their seats before it starts

The overall interpretation and unifying the performers' and designers' work into a coherent production

The performers and designers aligning their work to the director's interpretation

Each role working completely independently without talking to any of the others

Using as many different designers as possible so that every element looks distinct

A famous playwright whose well-known name draws in a large paying audience