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Assessment Type 1: Group Production

6 dot points across 6 inquiry questions. Click any dot point for a focused answer with worked past exam questions where available.

How do set, lighting, sound and costume designers turn a dramatic vision into the physical and sensory world an audience experiences?

Undertake a design role and explain how set, lighting, sound or costume choices realise the ensemble's dramatic intention.
What set, lighting, sound and costume designers do in a production, the choices each controls, and how to justify design decisions against dramatic intention in the Group Production.
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What do the director and dramaturg actually do, and how do they shape a production's meaning and coherence?

Undertake the director or dramaturg role and explain how it unifies the ensemble's interpretation and dramatic structure.
The distinct work of the director and the dramaturg in a production, the decisions each owns, and how to evidence and justify these leadership and research roles in the Group Production.
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How do you form a dramatic company and run it with the entrepreneurial thinking the Company and Production area of study expects?

Establish a dramatic company with a shared vision and apply entrepreneurial and project-management skills to bring a production to an audience.
How to establish a dramatic company with a name, vision and mission, and apply the entrepreneurial and project-management skills the Company and Production area of study rewards in the Group Production.
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What production roles exist in theatre and how do they combine to realise a unified vision?

Identify and undertake one or more production roles, explaining how each contributes to realising the ensemble's dramatic vision.
The range of performance and non-performance production roles in theatre - director, actor, designer, dramaturg, stage manager - and how undertaking a role contributes to a unified ensemble production.
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What is the actor's technical toolkit of voice, movement and characterisation, and how do you build a role with it?

Apply the actor's craft of vocal technique, physicality and characterisation to build and sustain a believable or stylised role.
The actor's technical toolkit in depth: vocal technique, physicality and movement, and the process of building a character, with how to apply and evidence these skills in performance roles.
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How does an ensemble move from a starting stimulus to a polished devised production?

Apply the dramatic process collaboratively to conceive, develop and refine a devised group production from stimulus to performance.
How a drama ensemble works through the dramatic process - responding to stimulus, conceiving a vision, experimenting, rehearsing and refining - to build a polished devised group production for Assessment Type 1.
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