Elements of drama notes

ELEMENTS OF DRAMA - Notes The Human Context: Relationships are central to all dramatic action. There are relationships between people (involving role, status and motivation) relationships between people and ideas (involving attitudes and beliefs) and relationship between people and their environments (involving situation and context) Role: who are you? Status: The position or power you have in the society Motivation: Why do you want to do something? You have an option. Attitudes: how you behave? Beliefs: are what you belief. Situation: What is happening? Context: How? When and why is it happening? Dramatic Tension Dramatic Tension is caused because there is a task that a character must complete and obstacles in the way of completing the task. Dramatic tension is resolved by completing the task. Tension of Task: doing something Tension of Relationships: Intimacy, Misunderstanding, Ceremony, and Dilemma, Conflict. Tension of Surprise: Expected and Unexpected Tension of Mystery Focus Focus is the process where by the action is framed and highlighted. Focus, or the point of concentration is maintained by considering the use of the following. Space: levels, proximity, and groupings Places of special meaning: for example, a church or a burial ground. Established Patterns: repetition, rituals Props: points of interest. Gestures: moving, touching, signaling, body language. Eye Contact: to others, away from others, to audience, internalized. Vocals: What is said, how is it said. Language used, variations. Contrasts: variations, breaking of patterns. Place an time: Place and time are defined by the following. 
Location and setting
Staging: use of space, creation of the offstage world, and relationship of staging to the audience.
Period: time of the day, the season of the year, open time frame or an abstraction of time.
Pace and tempo: management of time, particular use of time.
Rhythm and timing
Framing the Action Outside the Event Inside the event on the edge 
When the event is Just before or after an In the future after the
Happening? Event. Event. 
Real time Has the person Does not have to have
Involved the person there
Somehow
Language: 
We express our ideas, our feelings need by
The words we say
The way we say them
Our body language
Aspects of the voice: 
Contrast: sound and silence
Pitch: the high and the low of the voice.
Pace: the speed of the speech
Intonation: the rise or fall at the end of the sentence.
Volume
Tone: the attitude of the voice
Emphasis: the stress on particular words
Movement: The way your body is used to create meaning 
Movement and stillness
Contrast
Expressive movements
Body language gesture facial expression
Mood: The feeling or atmosphere created by using the elements of drama. Symbols: Symbols help with the understanding of the play. They can sum up the meaning of the play. Symbols can be expressed through language, movement and visual images. The two main forms are: 
Gesture- handshakes, victory
Objects- key, stick
Dramatic meaning When all the elements of drama are used together effectively, this creates meaning/ understanding/themes/ message.

Elements of drama notes

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