Student profile
Matthew
Chosen Options: Graphics, Physical Education
Career Aspirations: to become a fireman
Next Step: Matthew hopes to study a Public Services course at Runshaw College.
Course details
Candidates are required to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- Different genres and performance styles.
- The ways in which performers and designers communicate meaning to an audience
- A range of stage and performance conventions
- Appropriate drama terminology and how to use it
- How plays are constructed and realised through the study of at least one substantial play
- How to create, interpret and communicate a role or character
- Drama within its social, cultural and historical context
Candidates are required to develop the ability to:
- Use improvisation skills in a range of drama contexts
- Apply performance and/or production skills
- Select, synthesize and use ideas and skills to create drama
- Acquire reflective and evaluative skills in response to a range of dramatic texts
- Work collaboratively and creatively to achieve shared dramatic intentions
The GCSE Drama subject content gives candidates the opportunity to apply and develop their ICT capacity and to make effective use of ICT in the following areas:
- Using the Internet and other electronic sources to research information on plays/themes/stimuli chosen for practical work
- Planning and developing the structure of their practical work using flow charts and diagrams
- Recording text in developing their responses to plays or other types of drama, and in personal notes on live productions seen
- Using design programs to support the development and presentation of their work in options such as set, costume, mask and property design
- Using modern technology in performance
Examinations
The written paper assesses:
A – Practical work completed during the course
B – Study and performance of a scripted play
C – Study of a live theatre production seen
And has a weighting of 40%
Practical Work
Candidates are required to study at least two controlled assessment options from the following list:
- Devised Thematic Work
- Acting
- Improvisation
- Theatre in Education
- Physical Theatre
- Set Design
- Costume
- Make-up
- Properties
- Masks
- Puppets
- Lighting
- Sound
- Stage Management
Each assessment has a weighting of 30%
Further details are available from http://www.aqa.org.uk
