Deadline for 1st draft of SWED

The deadline for the 1st draft of your SWED was Friday 10th Feb (Emily and Maddy have an extension to Wed 15th Feb due to Annie Performances).
I have received all SWED's apart from David and Alannah...
Please upload your SWED into the Yr 13DR room on Fronter (follow link on Burntwood Website) by wed 15th Feb at the latest to get this marked before your final submission.

Happy half term!
Miss Wilson

Writing up your SWED

See below for the Q’s I set you to focus on each week:

26th Sept / 31st Sept / 6th Oct / 10th oct / 15th Nov / 5th Dec

How is the initial material being researched and developed at significant stages during the process of creating drama?

6th Oct / 10th Oct / 17th Oct / 15th Nov / 1st Dec

How effectively are you personally exploring and developing your role(s)?

6th Oct / 10th Oct  / 14th Nov

How did you and your group explore the possibilities of form, structure and performance style?

3rd Oct / 7th Nov / 1st Dec / 5th Dec

How did the work of established and recognised theatre practitioners, and/or the work of live theatre, influence the way in which your devised response developed?

January blogs (and questionnaires)

How successfully did your final performance communicate your aims and intentions for the piece to your audience?

21st Nov (and questionnaires)

How effectively did the social, cultural, historical/political context of the piece communicate to your audience?

Christmas Holidays - Jingle Blogs!

Happy Holidays!

Obviously, I would like you all to have a well deserved rest and eat lots of tasty food!!!! Mmm....yummy!

However - please please please don't forget to update your blogs!

Your performance will be just over 2 weeks after you return from the holidays. Use this time at home to reflect on your devising process so far. Look back over your blog over this term's unit, and if there are any areas within the 6 questions that look a little "lighter" in content, then consider what you have worked on, analyse your process and write it up!

You will be focussing predominantly on your SWED after the performance date but the more work you can put in now, the easier (and less painful!) this process will be...

Have a great break and see you next term for Unit 3!

Miss Wilson

W/c 5th December - focus on q's 1 and 4

Focus for this week’s blog –

Q. 4    How did the work of established and recognised theatre practitioners, and/or the work of live theatre, influence the way in which your devised response developed?

Q.1   How is the initial material being researched and developed at significant stages during the process of creating drama?

This week you will be focussing on linking all the scenes together and working on the transitions between each scene.
Consider all the elements of the devising process:

•Plot/story

•Characters

•Form

•Structure

•Visual

•Aural

•Spatial elements ie design, intended impact on audience (emotional, sensory, intellectual),

•Target audience

 

Write about these in relation to Q's 1 and 4. (You could also consider last Thursday's performance of Twelfth Night in relation to Q.4).

Character Workshop - Q.1

This week, I would like you to focus on writing material for Q.1 of the SWED content.
Think about the character workshop we did on Thursday and write about how you have now considered developing your role and any your explorations.
You could also bring in Q. 4 about Stanislavski's rehearsal techniques (ie: magic if) and how you have applied his techniques to your developments.

Getting your points together in prep for Q. 6...

This week, I would like you to focus your writing around the prepartion for answering Q.6:

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Consider what elements you are including in preparation for this outcome... Obviously you don't know how effectively you have communicated this until after your performance. However I would like you to write about what social, cultural, historical/political elements you are wanting/trying to focus on in the context of your devising process and expected outcome.

If you can write what you are planning to communicate and how you want to communicate them, then it will be easier to measure how effective you have been after the performance.

How effectively did the social, cultural, historical/political context of the piece communicate to your audience?

Some good questions to ask your "character"...

If you fancy doing some "character work" (which could be very helpfully applied to Q.1 in the SWED), try asking your character these questions...you might be suprised at how they answer!

1) How would you define "love"?
2) What's your greatest fear?
3) Who do you confide in?
4) When did you last cry and why?
5) What makes you happy?
6) How do you relax?
7) Who are most important to you - friends or family?
8) Who do you trust?
9) What is your earliest childhood memory?
10) What is your favourite item of clothing?

Some of your answers might also generate some devising ideas...