OCR GCSE Drama devising drama overview quiz quiz

20% and 40 marks

30% and 60 marks

40% and 80 marks

50% and 100 marks

The final live performance given in front of an audience and the examiner

The written examination paper that is sat by students at the end of the whole course

The starting point released by OCR, such as a theme, image, object or piece of music

The set play text that is studied closely for the written examination paper

Blocking

Blackout

Penetration testing

Hot-seating

Anyone can generate material; the marks are in choosing and developing the strongest ideas deliberately

Generating any new material is strictly banned by the OCR rules during the devising process for this component

Selecting ideas is always much faster to do than actually generating brand new ideas in a workshop

Generating material is a job only for the designers in the group and never for the performers at all

AO2

AO1

AO3

AO4 only

Narration of any kind is completely banned from the portfolio by the OCR rules for this component

Reflection is always far shorter to write than a long passage of plain narration would ever be

Reflecting records the choices, reasons and effects, which evidences creating and developing ideas

Narration is something used only in the live performance and never anywhere in the written portfolio

AO1

AO3

AO4

AO2

Sustaining a believable character throughout the piece

Choosing the staging configuration for the performance

Writing up the supporting evidence portfolio document

Operating the lighting board during the live performance

The total length of the finished devised piece counted in minutes

Its intention, the effect it set out to have on the audience

The teacher's own personal favourite moment from the piece

How much background research the group managed to do

Simply saying that the whole piece went very well on the night

Listing only the strengths of the piece and none of its real weaknesses

Balanced, evidenced judgements and realistic, specific improvements

Describing the events of the plot in the order that they happened

It is a step that is strictly required by the visiting OCR examiner every single year

It completely replaces the need to do any background research into the topic

It guarantees the group a high mark in the devising component every time

It opens a wide creative space of associations and questions to select from later

Showing vocal and physical range that does not serve the character or meaning

Sustaining a believable character right the way throughout the whole piece

Responding truthfully to all of the other performers on the stage during the piece

Realising the intention of the piece clearly at the key dramatic moments