Dramatic Elements Overview

Role and character The identification and portrayal of a person’s values, attitudes, intentions and actions as imagined relationships, situations and ideas in dramatic action; role focus on type and ______; characters are detailed and specific.

Relationships: the connections and interactions between people that affect the dramatic ______.

Situation: The setting and circumstances of the dramatic ______. For example: who, the what, the where, then when and what is at stake of the roles/characters.

Voice Using: it is the technique that suggests voice expressively to create roles, situations, relationships, atmosphere and ______.

Movement: using facial expression, posture and action expressively in space and time to create roles, situations, relationships, atmosphere and ______.

Focus: to concentrate the attention on a spatial direction or a point in space to intensify attention or increase the projection of intent and to direct and intensify attention and frame moments of dramatic action or to identify the main idea of the ______.

Time: the fictional time in the narrative or setting; timing of one moment to the next contributing to the tension and rhythm of dramatic action. 10.Language expresses that ideas and dramatic meaning which is the choice of linguistic expression and ideas in drama used to create ______ action.

Symbol Associations that occur when something is used to represent something else to reinforce or extend ______ meaning.

Audience: a collection of individuals or groups of people who experience the arts in a range of settings and contexts (formal, informal, virtual or interactive) through intellectual, emotional and social engagement. The artist is audience to their own ______.

Mood and atmosphere: are the elements of drama that describe the feeling or tone of both the physical space and the dramatic action created by or emerging from the ______.

Dramatic Action: it is the sense that the driving force and forward motion of drama to create dramatic meaning, tension, belief and audience engagement, and also it expresses the movement of the drama from the introduction, exposition of ideas and conflict to a ______.