Drama Notes

Form:

Opera, puppetry, one-act play, musical, Three-act play (well-made play), ancient Greek theatre, comedia dell'arte, youth theatre, Pantomime, dance, improv, linear, non-linear.

Style: The conventions and aesthetics used by the form

Realism, Naturalism, Non-realism, Non-naturalism, Presentational, Representational, Epic, Absurdism

Elements of drama:

• Role

• Realationship

• Space

• Time

• Voice

• Movement

• Tension

• Situation

• Atmosphere

• Mood

• Language

• Situation

• Focus

Elements of design:

• Line and direction

• Shape

• Texture

• proportion

• colourTime

• Size

Principles of design:

• Balance

• Constrast

• Emphasis

• Movement

• Patterns

• Repetition

• Rhythem

• Scale

• Unity

• Aariety

Principles and elements work together to convey ideas.

design choices have an impact on the audience and a correlation to the specific character, with evidence from the text.