Performance: SQA Advanced Higher Drama practical component quiz quiz

20 marks

30 marks

50 marks

100 marks

Practically, by a visiting assessor

In a written question paper

By multiple-choice test

By a recorded interview only

Writing, reviewing or producing

Acting, directing or design

Singing, dancing or acting

Lighting, sound or stage management

Technical difficulty

Spectacle and scale

A coherent concept every choice serves

The length of the performance

The controlling interpretation a realisation communicates

The list of props required

The running time of the piece

The seating plan for the audience

Showing the audience an emotion directly

Pursuing an active want against obstacles

Memorising the lines accurately

Standing in the brightest light

Posture

Gait

Pace

Gesture

The stage directions printed in italics

The summary at the foot of a page

The interval between two acts

The meaning beneath the lines, what a character does not say

To interpret the text into a directorial concept

To build the set

To choose the costumes

To sell the tickets

The lighting angles

The use and meaning of distance between performers

The order of scenes

The volume of sound effects

Choreography

Box office

Lighting

Front of house

It used too many colours

It communicated no interpretation the audience could read

It was too expensive

It took too long to build

With research and textual analysis of the play

With booking a venue

With learning the lines by heart

With buying materials

It is striking and original

It is cheap to realise

It is short to perform

It answers something genuinely present in the text

It reads the play as a blueprint for staging

It ignores the characters

It counts the words

It only studies the title

Every choice serves one controlling idea

Every scene is the same length

Every actor speaks at the same volume

Every prop is the same colour