C1 Y10 devising GCSE Drama L2 - Creating Ideas for Performance

1. Creating and developing your ideas
• What is the central question to concern ourselves with? What do I
need to provide evidence of?
•Q2: What work did you and your group do in
order to generate ideas for performance?
• Discuss different ways in which you could approach the
topic, write a list on a whiteboard and copy our findings into
your books. Be open minded.

2. Creative approaches – map the technique to
the outcome (they are mixed up)
TECHNIQUE
• Create a Film Trailer
• Still Images
• Thought Tracking
• Hot Seating
• Conscience Corridor
• The Magic IF
• Role on the Wall
OUTCOME
• Understand inner thoughts of character
at different points of the play
• Gain ideas from others about my
characters thoughts
• Experiment with how my character reacts
in different situations
• Condense our ideas about content into
the main plot points of the play
• Gain a greater understanding of style and
genre of our play
• Develop Characterisation and character
history

3. Example of note taking during a session
Point Evidence Evaluate progress
We created a film trailer
for our piece based on
our initial ideas.
To create the trailer,
which was only 40
seconds long, we agreed
on the main point of
action in the plot, and
considered how to
introduce the main
characters. We used
narration to
communicate these as
well as still images which
briefly came to life.
We also chose a piece of
music to fit the piece.
Choosing the music was
really helpful for me as
we discussed various
tracks. The one we
chose was very
atmospheric and dark in
style, which helped us to
understand the genre of
our piece and that it
would be a more serious
drama, focussing on the
themes of suspicion,
disappearance and
mystery.