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WorksheetsVCE DRAMA
Total questions: 19
Worksheet time: 10mins
How many Dramatic Elements are there?
7
8
9
10
Which Dramatic Element? ________ is the overall feeling or emotion that a performance may evoke.
Tension
Climax
Conflict
Mood
Which Dramatic Element? _______ is the most significant moment of tension or conflict in a drama and often occurs towards the end of the
plot.
Climax
Conflict
Tension
Space
Which Dramatic Element? ________ involves the way the performance area is used to communicate meaning, to define settings, to represent status and to create actor–audience relationships.
Tension
Rhythm
Space
Mood
How many Expressive Skills are there?
2
3
4
5
Which Dramatic Element? ________ is a regular pattern of words, sounds or actions.
Space
Rhythm
Tension
Contrast
Which Dramatic Element? _________ presents the dissimilar, or opposite, in order to highlight or emphasise difference.
Climax
Contrast
Conflict
Rhythm
Which Expressive Skill includes: gait, stance and posture?
Voice
Facial Expression
Gesture
Movement
Conventions are techniques or devices incorporated into the style of a performance. Which is not a convention in VCE DRAMA?
Transformation of character (changing characters in front of the audience).
Actor–audience relationship ( Performing without an audience is a rehearsal and is therefore part of the development process.)
Transformation of place (changing place in front of the audience).
Transformation of time (changing time in front of the audience).
Application of symbol (creating meaning that is not literal).
How many Performance Skills are there?
3
4
5
6
Which Performance Skill? _______ is the ability of the actor to commit to their performance and to use concentration to sustain characters.
Actor Audience Relationship
Focus
Timing
Energy
Which Performance Skill? ______ is the intensity an actor brings to a performance.
Actor Audience Relationship
Focus
Timing
Energy
Which Performance Skill? ________ is used to control or regulate the pace of a performance.
Actor Audience Relationship
Timing
Focus
Energy
How many Play Making Techniques are there?
5
6
7
8
Which term do these definitions fall under?
costume
lighting
• make-up
• mask
• props
• puppetry
• set pieces
• sound design
• theatre technologies.
Performance Skills
Production Areas
Expressive Skills
Conventions
Which Expressive Skill includes: diction, pitch, pace, tone, resonance, muscularity and vocal sounds.
Voice
Facial Expressions
Movement
Gesture
Which Play Making Technique? The _____ stage is where you begin to trial your ideas from the brainstorming and research stage.
Brainstorming
Research
Improvising
Rehearsing
Which Play Making Technique? _____ It involves deleting dramatic material that is unnecessary or unclear, and moving the elements / scenes of the performance into an order that is dramatically effective.
Rehearsing
Editing
Refining
Brainstorming
Which Performance Style is NOT Eclectic?
Epic Theatre
Theatre of Cruelty
Physical Theatre
Naturalism
Melodrama
