1. ‘Dan Nolan: Missing’
Edexcel GCSE Unit 2
CONTROLLED ASSESSMENT
WALT: Understand how to complete the written
Controlled Assessment for Unit 2.

2. Explorative
Strategies:
Task 1: • Still Image
• Thought tracking
Look at the front cover of the play:
• What do you know about the play just by looking at the
cover?
• What do you want to know about the play from looking
at the front cover?
Create your own freeze frame version of the front cover
including Thought Tracking. (WRITE ABOUT WHAT YOU
DID IN YOUR FREEZE FRAME)

3. Task 2:
Read the play as a class.
• How does the play make you feel?
• What are the key messages that Mark
Wheeller is trying to get across to an
audience?

4. Explorative Strategies:
• Freeze Frames
Task 3: • Thought Tracking
• Role play through
Improvisation
Exploring Plot and Content:
• Split the story into 5 main sections.
• Create a Freeze Frame for each section.
• Add Thought Tracking for each character in each Freeze
Frame.
• Bring one scene to life.
YOU MUST WRITE ABOUT WHAT YOU DID IN EACH
FREEZE FRAME INCLUDING YOUR THOUGHT TRACK.
ALSO TALK ABOUT HOW YOU ACTED AS YOUR
CHARACTER.

5. Elements of Drama:
• Characterisation
Task 4: • Conventions –
alter ego
Exploring Character and Subtext:
Drama Medium:
• Voice
• Space and levels -
• Use pages 25-27. proxemics
• In pairs, act out the scene between Greg and
Pauline. Try to discover what their relationship is
like. Is there any blame over Dan going missing?
• Use subtext methods to show what each
character is really thinking.

6. Elements of Drama
Drama: Medium:
• Conventions Task 5: • Costume
• Climax • Lighting
• Rhythm, pace • Sound and
and tempo music
• Movement,
Exploring Genre, Style and Conventions: mime and
gesture
• Perform Connor’s dream scene using an
Abstract theatre style.
• Focus on the use of physical
theatre, music, sound, repetition and climax.

7. Drama Mediums:
• Lighting
Task 6 • Music
• Mime
• Movement
Creating Atmosphere:
Elements of Drama:
• Contrasts
• Create a performance of the opening
moments of the play in order to show the
contrast in atmosphere.
• What are the 2 atmospheres in the scene?
• What Drama mediums can be used to achieve
these atmospheres?