Drama

What are the seven states of tension?

1. Catatonic: exhausted/no tension

2. Relaxed: cool, lacking credibility

3. Neutral: Present, economic, aware

4. Alert: curious, indecisive

5. Suspense: impeding crisis, tension throughout, delay in reaction

6. Passionate: tension explodes out of the body, difficulty of control

7. Tragic: petrified, the body in solid

How can you use your head as a performer?

eyeline, angle of head facial expressions

How can you use your shoulders as a performer?

up, down, back, forwards

How can you use your general posture as a performer?

open/closed

How can you use your gesture as a performer?

hand/ arm expression

How can you use your hands as a performer?

clenched, relaxed, palms out, palms in, palms up

How can you use your hips as a performer?

sitting into one hip, arched back, tucked under

How can you use your knees as a performer?

bent/straight

How can you use your feet as a performer?

turned in, turned out, balls of feet, heels

How can you use your stride as a performer?

large/small

What are the 4 proxemics?

1. intimate

2. personal

3. social

4. public

What does stage spacing look like?

What does head voice do?

creates a high clear shrill and vocal tone

What does nasal voice do?

good for nosey characters

What does guttural voice do?

produced in throat makes a harsh sound

What does consonents voice do?

made by tongue lips and throat creates idea of intellect and class

can be voiced forcefully or lazily

What does chest voice do?

deep often breathy vocal tone

What words can be used to describe voice?

• pitch

• pace

• projection

• pause

• emphasis

• inflecting (high pitch at the end think question!)

• accent

What can lighting do?

• visibility

• setting

• location

• time

• season

• atmosphere

• high lighting

• texturing

• confirm

• amaze

What is naturalistic lighting?

• may not be aware of it

• changing intensity or hue in order to reinforce the emotions of the audience

What is abstract lighting?

• artuad mostly

• expressionism

• light and shade to create shape and mood in an almost architectural way

• dreamlike/ nightmarish mis-en-scene

What is a flood light?

broad beam of light, less directional and intense than a spot

what is a spotlight?

controlled narrowly-focused beam of light

What is a tungsten light?

ordinary light bulb containing thin coiled tungsten wire becomes incandescent

What is a fresnel light?

lense with raised circular ridges to focus the light beam

What is a profile light?

defined spots of light have lamp, reflector and some have shutters and gate

What is a followspot?

change colour and size of circle

What set things can you use?

• backdrop/cyclorama

• fly-in

• tread

• flat

• colour

• set dressing

What are the different stage configurations?

• proscenium arch

• end on

• thrust

• promenade

• in the round

• transverse