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Unit 3: Challenge
Quick questions on The three drama processes: forming, presenting and responding (QCE Drama Units 3 and 4)
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What is forming?Show answer
Forming is the making and shaping of dramatic action before it reaches an audience. It covers generating and selecting ideas, choosing a style and its conventions, devising and structuring action, and planning how the dramatic languages will create meaning. Forming is where research, experimentation, drafting and rehearsal decisions happen. In Unit 4 it expands explicitly into directing and devising.
What is presenting?Show answer
Presenting is the realisation of dramatic action in performance for an audience. It is the live application of the skills of acting, voice, movement, focus, the control of tension, and the operation of stagecraft, so that the planned meaning lands on the spectators. Presenting is a relationship with an audience, not a private exercise; it is judged by what reaches the people watching.
What is responding?Show answer
Responding is the analysis and evaluation of dramatic action. It includes justifying your own choices as a maker and writing analytically about how a performance, text or style communicates meaning. Responding demands precise use of the dramatic languages as vocabulary and an argued judgement about effect, not mere description.
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