Drama MYP Grade 10

Drama - Set Design Expressionistic or Symbolic or Minimalistic What mood is created by the designs? 1. Symbolic - Not Realistic Always being watched 2. Perspective - big sun Sunset on East Africa Calm and peaceful mood Makes you feel small... Nature is bigger 3. Scary - trees looming above the walls Winter feeling (cold atmosphere) Ghost, sinister Central focus - Black Window Contrast between colors (red, black) 4. Lot of light Ship - levels Lights - stars Action 5. Small performance space Warm and cozy Color scheme - welcoming - red England or US Wealthy house ornaments 6. Frozen Extremely Simplistic Cloth hanging down at the back Blue color scheme - Frozen Symbolic Simple - looking at ONLY key themes Musical Open space 7. 1940s - type of furniture, Corner - focus section Poverty - small edge, cramped Green - envy Naturalistic style - but not natural 8. Urban location New York - stairs, trolley Water or reflection - symbolic Smaller than o...

Train Surfing Final Performance In the first scene we have tried to convey marking the moment, although we were unable to correctly as we did not stop for a minute to create silence to intensify our act. Then, the police officer (me), changes the role to the teenager who goes to save the injured train surfer (who we showed in the previous scene, who had fell off the train). I am then calling for help (using a telephone booth), to show how the society in the favelas is substandard. Then I rush to my uncle (Aizah), and I have to explain myself. (This scene is for around 2-3 minutes to show a clear understanding for the audience). Then we had a new medium that we used, which was a flash back, showing how the uncle had made a mistake of train surfing when he was younger and he doesn't want the same thing to happen to his nephew. Next there is a scene of a gang, who spots me on the street, and one person from the gang is the injured train surfer who I had saved previously. Th...

For our last performance assessment piece we choose 4-5 people for each group, in order to construct a drama piece related to the story we have looked at so far. The main aim for our performance project was to create a story revolving around the past few lessons that we have looked at on train surfing - and different performances we have done. We had to think critically and creatively to come to a unique idea to show case our peers on this unit - Train surfing. It was important for each group to show case their drama skills through different mediums such as: facial expressions, volume of voice, space, levels. Also, in order to create a more realistic performance piece we all were encouraged to bring in props and costumes to suit our performance, to create a more engaging act for the audience. Each group was asked to create a performance piece which included at least one drama medium such as: Marking the moment, thought tracking, cross cutting, freeze frame and hot seating. On t...