I must be able to shape, interpret and use the elements of drama to create particular effects for an audience. To enhance conflict I decided to place Ruby and Ray upstage so that they have a closer proximity with the audience. I decided to create many pauses between Sylvie and Ray’s dialogue to redefine the conflict. For example when Sylvie says, ‘Ray…? Where’s Ruby?’ and Ray responds with, ‘I don’t know, Sylvie! I don’t know!’ I decided to place the actors so that they’re facing each other with a pause after Ray’s dialogue to show the climatic moment. I decided for Sylvie to imagine the mannequin of Ruby is outside the front under the street lamp so she is looking out into the audience enhancing the conflict revolving around the missing mannequin which she says. ‘The mannequin! She’s not under the street lamp. Somebody’s taken her. Who could be that cruel?’ Sylvie is looking out frantically into the audience making the audience feel uncomfortable and uneasy enhancing the conflict of this missing mannequin. One last way in which conflict is shown is through the body part of Ruby being sent in a parcel and how they don’t know the answers to who sent it and why and how it event got there reinforcing the invasion of a safe neighbourhood. For…
In this paragraph I will be explaining and providing examples of Tension from the book Honey Spot.…
I.R.P.: English Language Arts 8-10 Learning Outcomes / Lesson Objectives: The student will be able to: (Comprehension) – use a variety of written or graphic forms to organize ideas acquired from what they have read, heard or viewed (Composing & Creating) – apply various strategies to generate and shape ideas Real World Application: How relationships affect us all Materials: R& J text, handout list of main characters, R& J movie (new), Poster board Pens, paper, magazines Introduction: (10 min) Have students watch new R&J movie – snapshots of all characters Lesson: (40 min) 1) Ask students to hand in written/ typed scenes from last class 2) Have students get in groups of 2 or 3 3)…
Main devices: Dramatic irony, setting, lighting, stage directions, temporal and spatial parameters (boundaries of time and space.) and the inspector himself.…
How are the dramatic forms and theatrical techniques of the plays you have studied used to portray the struggles of the characters?…
body language with hunched shoulders, scuffing his feet. His pace was much slower to when he…
How is the material being researched and developed at significant stages during the process of creating drama?…
The workshop process was a new way of producing plays for British theatre. Max didn’t believe that there was a hierarchy between the writer, director and actors. He believed everyone was equal and the play would be developed by the whole group. The whole company would research the books and themes, developing ideas through creative workshops. Then the writer would go away and write first draft of the play, which would be rewritten several times by the company during their conventional rehearsal period. The principle of the workshop technique was to motivate the…
In “Bullying as True Drama,” writers Danah Boyd and Alice Marwick describe how adults need to listen more to the dialect of young people during discussions of bullying. Upon hearing the story of a 14-year old boy committing suicide after being mercilessly bullied, they felt compelled to write the article for the New York Times in 2011. Their desire was to communicate toward concerned adults the differences between their thoughts and the teenagers. By sharing their research, they wanted adults to see the need to listen more carefully to what was being said by teenagers.…
<br>Through the use of dialogue, stage directions which enable us to envisage the scene on stage and characterisation we can see how dramatic tension is created by Miller. These aspects are to be explored for each act.…
Non- Naturalistic is when your performance is based on stuff that would not normally occur. For Example-Continuously changing your character mood : you would walk(Movement) in a bizarre(Weird) way, it can be a way of showing something is changing. Its used a lot in drama to show a persons state of mind. Non-Naturalism is about actors which plays a role that would not be in a real life. As in the real world non-naturalism would seem like they are mad and then treat you differently. Actor use Non-Naturalism in many of their acts/plays as it also makes the audience enjoy the moment on Non-Naturalism. Non-Naturalism is absolutely not real. It’s can include any type of aspect like comedy, love and many more. This means that the movements and the voice are changed into a weird way that can seem funny or serious. This can change anything not only the movement.…
Dramaturgy is defined as “a sociological perspective that is a component of symbolic interactionism and is used in sociological analysis of everyday life” (Boundless, 2016). It represents an individual’s identity through society engagements. Identity is how an individual act for impressions of who they “really” are. Individuals can make videos, tweet, post a status, and make their profiles represent who they are. It is a way to communicate who we are to the society, which is also called impression management. However, there are two stages in this representation, and this is called the region management. There is a front stage which only shows the positive aspects of an individual, and there is a back stage which are the negative aspects…
In life we all act differently depending on who we are with and the situation at hand. In almost every situation we act in a different way, with our friends in public, with our family members at home, with coworkers, and most importantly our boss in a work environment. Depending on who we are with you could say our personality changes. As humans we know how to act in every situation, at work you would dress more formal, whereas going out with a group of friends you would dress more causal. Along with our looks changing, we also change our behaviors, the way we talk, sit, the tone of your voice, etc. At a doctor’s office, the receptionist must play a defined role. She has to act polite, caring, professional, and must remain discreet about her patient’s information and conditions. The receptionist is 27 year old Hispanic woman, she works at the doctor’s office from 8 am to 5 pm. She is acting in a professional manner, well maintained, dressed in scrubs with closed toe shoes. I would describe the receptionist as upper middle class social status.…
The exercises we performed during the workshop made us take into account how Christopher Boone distinguishes everyday objects from his perspective. The workshop was incredibly effective as it made us use personification to give emphasis to the objects involved during our production. Incorporating personification helped provide me with a wider variety of acting skills, which I will be able to use for my GCSE production to help create a more dramatic storyline.…
When reading the play "Ruby Moon" it is easy to pick up on the personal and social tensions between characters. The descriptive nature of the stage directions and the very act of reading as opposed to just seeing on stage, being able to take time to look over each line, means that a reader can see which scenes accentuate the tension between both Ray and Sylvie or the characters they have created. Stage directions in the play plainly describe when a pause on stage is to be tense, or what the vibe is supposed to feel like during a particular scene.…