AC9ADR8E01 Years 7 to 8 The Arts

Content descriptor investigate ways the elements of drama and/or conventions are used to communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning in drama created and/or performed across cultures, times, places and/or other contexts

Elaborations

• • Elaboration researching and noticing how the impact of time and place/context of a drama from a particular period can differ from that of another period, particularly in relation to the use of drama conventions
• • Elaboration using Viewpoints to analyse and evaluate performances they have experienced and/or participated in by asking questions such as “What ideas did you think the drama expressed?”, “What conventions were used to establish time/place/context?”, “How was movement used in the drama?”
• • Elaboration writing or pod/vodcasting a review of a drama they experience, focusing on use of specific elements of drama and/or conventions; for example, identifying and describing how an element of drama has been manipulated to communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning
• • Elaboration analysing how linear and non-linear narrative is used in examples of drama from diverse cultures; for example, in contemporary drama from countries or regions in Asia or in drama from historical times