The Assignment: SQA Advanced Higher Drama written analysis quiz quiz

10 marks

20 marks

30 marks

50 marks

A musical of your choice

Any school production

A professional production that is a play

A pantomime or ballet

No more than 250 words on one side of A4

No more than 1,000 words

Two sides of A4

There is no resource sheet

A list of production details

A set of prompts

A pre-written essay or draft answer

Names of practitioners

At least one

At least three

Exactly five

None

A critic

A director

A producer's agent

An usher

Retelling the plot in full

Listing everything on stage

Writing the longest answer

Analysis and evaluation of how choices created impact

Analysing the script on the page

Analysing the company's staging choices for their effect on the audience

Counting the number of scenes

Reading reviews of it

Its ticket sales

Its running time

The effect of the staging on the audience

The number of actors in it

A reasoned judgement supported by evidence

A longer plot summary

A list of cast names

A description of the venue

Naming the playwright

Crediting a specific effect to a specific choice by a named practitioner

Listing the awards a production won

Quoting the programme notes

It is too short

It names no choice and no effect, so it attributes nothing

It is too negative

It uses the wrong tense

Because shorter answers are always better

Because the marker counts the techniques

Because analysing a few choices fully shows how the production worked

Because coverage is banned

To submit them as the Assignment

Because notes replace analysis

Because remembered detail is the evidence that makes analysis convincing

Because SQA requires a diary