AC9ADR10C02 Year 9 The Arts

This Content Descriptor from Year 9 The Arts provides the specific knowledge and skills students should learn. Use it to plan lessons, create learning sequences, and design assessments that align with the Australian Curriculum v9.

rehearse and refine drama making deliberate aesthetic choices to unify dramatic meaning

Elaborations

• 1 evaluating how ideas, emotions and audience response can be used to refine the drama or their use of performance skills
• 2 reflecting on and evaluating how successfully their intentions/purposes, clear action and meaning, and effects were achieved in context, through use of the elements, conventions, performance skills and/or design, and deciding what can be learnt from this for future dramatic practice
• 3 focusing and strengthening the dramatic action by manipulating pace in movement and dialogue, cues, vocal tone, physical proximity between characters and transitions
• 4 collaborating as a member of a drama team by directing the blocking and staging of dramatic action to communicate intended meaning(s) for an audience
• 5 collaborating to interpret drama and when preparing for production; for example, taking on roles such as stage manager, sound or lighting designer, props, costumes, performer, writer, publicity/marketing, front-of-house or director
• 6 considering the impact of design elements such as costume, prop, set, lighting, sound or technologies on meaning and aesthetic effect
• 7 manipulating elements of drama and using conventions to create and manipulate actor–audience relationships

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