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The Performance
Quick questions on The performance coursework in Higher Drama: structure and preparation - SQA Higher Drama
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What are the two sections?Show answer
The preparation for performance section (10 marks) is where you show your thinking: for an acting role, your character's motivation, objectives, status and the key voice and movement choices you have prepared; for a production role, your concept or design choices and the atmosphere or meaning you intend. The performance section (50 marks) is the live realisation of that preparation in front of an audience. The two are linked: the performance is strongest when it delivers the deliberate choices set out in preparation.
What is choosing your role?Show answer
You take one role. Acting is assessed on voice, movement, characterisation and response to others. A production role is assessed on the use and control of that craft: a director on concept, blocking and proxemics; a designer on the chosen design element (set, lighting, sound, costume, make-up or props) and how it supports the production. Choose the role that plays to your strengths, because all roles are marked on the same principle: deliberate, controlled, communicative choices.
What is q1?Show answer
What are the two sections of the performance and their marks? [2 marks]
What is q2?Show answer
What is the performance assessed on? [2 marks]
What is q3?Show answer
Why must preparation and performance be treated as linked? [2 marks]
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