Drama flashcards

61 SACE Drama cards across 4 modules (22 definitions, 34 key facts, 5 fill-the-gap, 0 formulas). Each session gives you 20 cards, due cards first. Swipe right for easy, left for hard, down for again. Keyboard: Space to flip, 1 to 4 to rate.

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What this deck covers

Assessment Type 1: Group Production (20 cards, 6 dot points)
Assessment Type 2: Folio (18 cards, 5 dot points)
Assessment Type 3: Creative Presentation (14 cards, 4 dot points)
Course overview (9 cards, 2 dot points)
- Learning requirements and capabilities in SACE Stage 2 Drama (4)
- Performance standards and how Drama is marked in SACE Stage 2 Drama (5)

Sample cards from this deck

Definition
Design roles: set, lighting, sound and costume (SACE Stage 2 Drama)
Define Crossfade
A crossfade is a lighting transition where one state dims as another rises, so the change is continuous rather than a sudden snap. Its speed is expressive: a slow crossfade can feel like time passing or a mood seeping in, while a fast one feels like a jolt.
Definition
Contemporary Australian and First Nations theatre (SACE Stage 2 Drama)
Define Culturally meaningful drama
Culturally meaningful drama is work that engages authentically and respectfully with the cultural contexts, knowledge and protocols of the communities it draws on, so that the culture is honoured and accurately represented rather than borrowed for effect.
Definition
Exploration and Vision and shared dramatic intention (SACE Stage 2 Drama)
Define Dramatic intention
A dramatic intention is a clear statement of the effect you want a work to have on its audience, what you want them to think, feel or understand.
Definition
Learning requirements and capabilities in SACE Stage 2 Drama
Define Company and Production
Company and Production is the collaborative making strand: forming a company, taking roles, and producing a work for an audience. Exploration and Vision is the conceptual and individual strand: investigating theory and styles, generating a shared dramatic intention, and articulating a vision. The areas are deliberately integrated, so a single rehearsal can develop both at once.
Definition
Directing and dramaturgy (SACE Stage 2 Drama)
Define Directorial concept
A directorial concept is the central interpretive idea that governs a production, the answer to what this work is really about and how we will make an audience feel it. A strong concept is specific enough to decide concrete staging questions.
Definition
Creative inquiry and synthesis (SACE Stage 2 Drama)
Define Creative inquiry
Creative inquiry is the structured process of asking a dramatic question, generating many possible responses, experimenting with them practically, and refining the most promising into an original outcome, documenting the reasoning at each step.
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Performance and realisation skills (SACE Stage 2 Drama)
Define Realisation
Realisation is the transformation of an idea or interpretation into a live, perceptible performance through applied skill - the point at which a vision becomes something an audience can see and hear.
Definition
Performance standards and how Drama is marked in SACE Stage 2 Drama
Define Creative application
Creative application is how imaginatively and skilfully you generate, develop and realise dramatic ideas in your role. Collaboration is how effectively you contribute to and sustain an ensemble, undertaking roles and solving problems together. Analysis and evaluation is how perceptively you reflect on, appraise and judge drama, both your own and the work of professional practitioners.
Definition
Forming a company and entrepreneurialism (SACE Stage 2 Drama)
Define Mission statement
A mission statement is a short, public declaration of what a company exists to do and for whom. In Drama it crystallises your shared dramatic intent into a sentence or two that guides creative decisions and keeps the ensemble aligned.
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Dramatic styles and conventions (SACE Stage 2 Drama)
Define Convention
A convention is an agreed device or rule a style uses that the audience accepts: for example, the fourth wall in realism, or direct address in epic theatre. Conventions let theatre communicate efficiently because performers and audiences share the rules.