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WorksheetsKS3 Key Drama Techniques
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 7mins
What does the term 'THOUGHT TRACKING' mean?
A character stops to think about their actions.
The audience calls out what they think a character might be feeling.
A character tracks their thoughts across the performance.
An aid to characterisation: the character speaks their thoughts out loud to the audience.
What does the term 'STILL IMAGE' mean?
Creating a picture to represent a frozen moment or highlight an important idea.
Staying still during a performance.
A moment in a film.
All actors on stage making sure that they are never still.
What does the term 'MARKING THE MOMENT' mean?
Making an important moment clear through great acting.
Staying still at an important moment.
Using a still image and thought tracking to highlight an important moment.
Stepping out of character and explaining why this moment is important.
What do the terms 'FLASHBACK & FLASHFORWARD' mean?
To interrupt the chronological order of events to either show something that happened at an earlier time or future events. Movement between places.
Showing something that happened earlier.
Showing something that happened later.
Showing something that happened either earlier or later.
What does the term 'CROSS-CUTTING' mean?
To show the movement between places through use of a split stage.
Showing something that happened earlier.
Showing something that happened later.
Showing something that happened in another place.
What does the term 'NARRATION' mean?
Reading the story.
A character telling their thoughts aloud to the audience.
The audience telling the story.
A character telling the story from their perspective or an actor telling the story from outside the action.
What does the term 'MIME' mean?
Acting without words using hand gestures, body movements and facial expressions to represent a feeling or idea or to convey a story.
Acting without words or movement.
Telling the story through dance and song.
Acting with your vocal skill only, telling the story through use of pause, pitch, pace, tone and volume.
What does the term 'SLOW MOTION' mean?
Performing the whole piece of drama at half speed.
Movement performed at a slowed down speed to create tension or highlight an important moment.
Making sure the piece lasts 10 minutes.
Stopping after every scene for a STILL IMAGE.
What does the term 'CHORAL SPEECH' mean?
Speaking together with others on stage, in unison.
Speaking together with members of the audience, in unison.
Speaking together with one other person.
Speaking loudly on stage, making sure you can be heard at all times.
What is the term used to describe actors moving together in unison on stage?
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What does it mean to create a SOUNDSCAPE in Drama?
Using your voice and body to layer sounds to create a setting/mood,
Using SFX to layer sounds to create a setting/mood.
Painting a picture of a landscape to allow the audience to imaging the setting.
Sounds made in the theatre.
What does the term PHYSICAL THEATRE mean in Drama?
Using the space to create a physical story
Movement
Making set and props out of actors bodies
Physically going to the theatre
