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WorksheetsYear 8 Drama
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 11mins
What is a stimulus?
A type of acting
A starting point for a performance idea
Ways to create performances
Performance Skills
What is a monologue?
A script
A part of a performance where the actor speaks directly to the audience
Stage design
A way for the audience to ask questions to actors
What kind of stimulus is a teddy bear?
Tactile
Visual
Auditory
Ideational
How can a storyboard develop a performance?
It develops your drawing skills
It helps you to map out the stages of a performance
It allows you to see the characters
It develops your acting
Why are the 5w's important in drama?
It makes the scene/acting more realistic
It helps with understanding English
It sounds good
It helps the atmosphere of the performance
What does "devise" mean in drama?
To share ideas
To listen
To create
To perform
Which of the following are features of silent movie? You can select multiple answers
No talking
Laughing
Exaggeration
Captions
Props
Who is the most famous silent movie actor?
Buster Keaton
Michael Caine
James Stewart
Charlie Chaplin
What is slapstick?
Over the top physical comedy
Falling over
A way of moving
Talking as a certain character
Why did they not use voice in silent movies?
Microphones weren't invited yet
They thought it would be more comedic
They did not have the technology to match up sound with visuals
The actors didn't like speaking
When did silent movies become famous?
1910s
1920s
1930s
1940s
Why are facial expressions and body language especially important in Silent Movies?
The actors have to rely on their physicality to tell the story
So the performance is funny
The actors need to be talented
To develop their performance skills
Silent Movie uses music to...
Fill the silence
Make it more interesting
Include other drama techniques in the performance
Create mood and atmosphere to compliment the storyline
In Darkwood Manor, we used dramatic tension. What is dramatic tension?
Something you add to a performance
How you keep an audience hooked watching your play
How the actor feels
an acting technique
How can we create dramatic tension on stage? Multiple answers can be ticked
Lighting and music
Pauses and silence
Laughing on stage
Body language
What is physical theatre?
How you move on stage
How a character walks
Creating objects with your body
Where actors move to on stage
What is a soundscape?
Actors speaking on stage
Music played underneath a performance
Adding sound effects
Layers of sound created by actors to build an atmosphere
What is narration?
A type of physicality
Someone telling a story to the audience alongside the action
When you read a book
Characters speaking to the audience
What is a flashback?
A scene that uses lots of special effects
A scene that goes back to an earlier point in time to explain previous events
A scene that goes forward to a later point in time to explain previous events
A scene where you break character
What is "corpsing"?
When you stop the scene halfway through
When a character dies on stage
When an audience member leaves
When you break character or laugh in a performance
