Free QCE Year 11 Drama Flashcard Review
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What are the four parts of the dramatic languages?
Forms and styles; conventions; elements of drama; skills of drama (acting, devising, directing, critiquing).
How is form different from style?
Form is how dramatic action is structured for a purpose; style is the manner in which it is expressed or performed, with identifiable characteristics.
What four purposes of drama does Unit 1 focus on?
To document, celebrate, empower and inform.
Linear versus non-linear narrative?
Linear follows chronological cause and effect; non-linear reorders time through flashback, fragmentation, parallel action or starting at the end.
What is hybridity in drama?
Deliberately combining styles, forms, modes or art forms (text, movement, objects, sound, projection) so the combination creates new meaning.
Name the three modes and an example of each.
Spoken (narration, dialogue); visual (tableau, stylised movement); digital (projection, film, still image).
What is masking, and why avoid it?
Hiding another actor or a key action from the audience's view; it breaks sightlines and loses dramatic focus.
Performance skills versus expressive skills?
Performance: audience awareness, energy, focus, timing, ensemble dynamics. Expressive: body language, facial expression, movement qualities, vocal qualities.
What is process drama?
A group explores a fictional situation from the inside, often with the teacher in role, to investigate an issue or question.
What is play-building?
Collaboratively generating, selecting and structuring improvised scenes into a whole devised work.
Which critical literacies does drama use?
Aural, digital, drama, kinaesthetic, oral, visual and written.
What is a reliable structure for an analytical paragraph?
Claim linked to purpose, precise evidence from a moment, analysis of how named dramatic languages work together, and a link back to meaning and audience.
Name four stylistic characteristics of Realism.
Unbroken fourth wall; believable, psychologically motivated characters; everyday dialogue with subtext; specific place, often a detailed box set; usually a linear, climactic structure.
What are given circumstances?
The facts of a character's situation, such as who they are, where and when the scene happens, their history and relationships, which shape truthful acting choices.
What is subtext and how can an actor show it?
The unspoken meaning beneath a line. An actor can reveal it through pause, a contradicting action, eye focus, or a change in pitch or pace.
Which purposes does Unit 2 emphasise?
Informing, challenging, empathising, chronicling or documenting, and celebrating.
How is the magical element treated in Magical Realism?
As an ordinary part of the world: characters accept it, it is not explained, and it reveals an emotional or political truth.
List four characteristics of Australian Gothic.
A hostile or watchful landscape; isolation and claustrophobia; abandoned or decaying places; a buried past (often colonial) that resurfaces; foreboding, inevitable loss and the uncanny.
What does it mean to problematise colonisation in a text?
To question the accepted version of history: whose perspective is centred, whose is missing, what is presented as natural, and how the past connects to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander experiences today.
What does a directorial vision include?
Purpose, context, style, audience and the key moments and choices (elements, conventions, stagecraft, design) that will communicate meaning.