okay hello you're 10 hi this is Mr wari I am appearing as an avatar um I've chosen to be a well it's a fox it's a Ginger Fox like a red fox but it's true I mean I do look quite a bit like a mouse but anyway let's get over that that's not what's important what's important is what we're going to be doing for the next few lessons to get you ready for your mock exam in drama and to explain why we're doing the mark exam and what you can learn from it so the keyword as you can see here is portfolio um because we're going to be doing some writing now I know many of you chose drama because you're not the biggest fan of writing you like to do acting and um we understand that however when you're doing a GCSE um you have to be able to communicate ideas in writing um and so what we're going to do is we're going to break that task down for you so that it's pretty straightforward and you can get the most out out of this learning experience because the mock exam is being designed to help you practice for the real one so first of all Don't Panic just relax it's going to be fine we're going to do this okay um just think of it as a practice for the real thing which we will be starting pretty soon but for now it's a practice okay so your portfolio that sounds like a big scary thing but your portfolio here is going to be more like just answering six questions about the work that you did from September up until half 10 when we were creating our performances which were brilliant by the way about mental health yes I'm sure you remember that okay so next slide so you're going to look at um what's called a mock portfolio so it's not the real thing it's a practice portfolio um and we're going to look at you know what you're going to need to do um if you're if you in this market you were to get sort of a level four or a level five right up um you might be going for a higher level but let's get everybody over that four five barrier shall we now you remember this picture the scream Edward Munch's scream and so we were looking at that this is the stimulus that you were given so when you're writing about the work that you did when you uh refer to a stimulus you're referring to the screen Name by Edward Mon Mon monk munch I think it's monk sometimes I don't know how to say that name but you can look it up so the when you do the real exam it's going to be worth 40% of your gcsc and there are 60 marks that you can win you think it like that think of it almost as a game maybe you can win 60 marks by doing this exercise really well okay now there's a lot of writing in that box there which I've broken down for you over the next few slides yeah so but you should all remember this picture and you all remember that we did the the performances okay so let's just learn some of the exam language the language that's used by the exam is they they have ao1 ao2 A3 and A4 um I don't know why we always have to have all of these acronyms as they're called but we do in education so instead of saying assessment objective we have A1 A2 A3 A4 which means assessment objectives 1 2 3 and four and they are as you can see from this the slide pretty much A1 is basically like you know can you come up with ideas share ideas can you work creatively to create and perform your own piece of drama A2 is looking at the skills and your awareness of the skills that you have that you're using to create impactful drama so that's a drama that changes your um your audience it makes them think about things or feel differently the power of drama is that we can affect the way people see the world and see themselves assessment objective 3 A3 is you know can you think critically about drama and can you you know evaluate valate its Effectiveness and that would be looking at other people's work and A4 assessment objective four is can you analyze your own work so when you think about it these four assessment objectives basically that's just saying are you a really well-rounded drama student you know can you explore ideas can you come up with creative ideas can you share those ideas can you maybe try some ideas that don't work and then find new ones so you you can talk about that please please please don't imagine for one second that your um you know the mistakes that maybe you make when you're creating a piece of work that not important what's important is that you realize that oh we tried this it didn't work then we tried this oh and then this worked and then when we got got that idea this other idea came and you you can talk about that that's what the um examiners want to know um you know can you impact people does your drama mean something and I know you've all got ideas that you want to share and so you can talk about the ideas that you got excited about when you were doing this piece of drama okay anyway I've talked enough about ao1 ao2 AO3 and A4 does that you probably get the picture now now here's the Shocker now component one which is making devised piece of drama some drama you'd make up yourself now of course we haven't done the actual exam yet this is the practice okay so but we've done a practice for the exam so um the shocking thing about it is not that this component so comp there's three components so this is component one we'll talk about the others later it's 40% of your GCSE so it's quite a chunk of your GCSE now it's divided into two pieces one is the devised piece the performance and one is the written portfolio and you're ahead of me here you can see that it's out of marks there's 60 marks that you can get for this and 15 of them are for the devised piece and 45 of them are for the written portfolio now because I'm a little fox on the screen I can't hear the um complaints but I imagine there's a few but we've got to deal with this this is the situation now the funny thing about it is you probably will be spending most of your time and effort on making your performance the best it can be and that's right because you love drama the written part of it because it's worth 45 marks well the thing to get used to really is you can see that the written part is it's not just something that's added on at the end as an afterthought it's actually very important so when we do the real exam you're going to be making notes as you go along the reason we're doing the mock the way we're doing the mock is so that you can get some practice okay so don't worry about it remember this is a mock you're going to be fine going to step you through it step by step okay so next slide here we go um right well I'm sort of covering some of the the writing um on well the side that I'm on um but the main most important part really are the questions so you can see there's there's six questions that when you write about your work that you created when you did the stuff on the The Scream the stimulus the scream we looked at we were looking at mental Health sort of [Music] um you're going to be answering six questions about your work now you can see them there um question one what was your initial response to the stimuli stimuli was the picture and what were the intentions of the piece what did you want your audience to think understand feel how did you what did you want them to understand how did you want to affect the audience how did you want them to change you know and that's at the beginning when you because some of those ideas at the beginning might have been different at the end yeah question two what work did your group do in order to explore the stimuli and start to create ideas for the performance now you're going to be talking about some of the prepar preparation work that we did which I'm going to go into with a bit more detail on the next slide as we're going to start we're going to break these questions down one by one and there's going to be pauses for you to start making some notes okay so don't worry it's fine we've got you covered question three what were some of the significant moments during the development process so as you were making the drama you know and you were rehearsing and you were refining your work and making it better what were moments when you went oh that idea is really good or this idea isn't working we need something else that's what they're asking you for there question four now we're going to go into this one in the most detail really question four because it's got some um Concepts that you might not be 100% sure of so for instance you know how did you consider or you know what genre were you working with okay so it was physical theater that's what we were doing physical theater physical theater when the uh movement and you and the way that you're telling the story is mostly or it's more important the movement is more important than the spoken words physical theer was the genre in case what was the genre that's right thank you physical theater um the structure the character characters you were using the form style and language throughout the process we're going to dig into what those are I think people are most likely to be going what structure what are you talking about structure what does that mean character you're probably quite familiar with that um form do you know what that means if you don't now you will in a few minutes CU we're going to go into detail so please don't panic a lot of people probably don't know what form is when they're talking about theater um and style also can be a bit confusing but we're going to make that clear for you uh on the next slide don't worry about it it's going to be fine um so that's question four uh question five how effective was your contribution to final performance now this isn't about bigging yourself up and saying oh I'm the best actress or I'm actor or you know the worst actor or actress nope this is going to be uh you reflecting on what went well we ask that question a lot in drama don't we what did you contribute what could be better you know what didn't work as well what are you happy with what were you less happy with we'll look at that in a detail a bit more detail in a moment and you'll do you'll start making some notes and then question six it were you successful in what you set out to achieve [Music] um your ideas for the peace might have changed as you went along and you can talk about that as well yeah um were you able to make your audience realize something did they learn something from watching your piece were you happy with the characters were you happy with the performance were you um do do you feel that your transitions uh were really powerful and there's so many things you can write about so we can't go into them all right now because everybody will be writing you know in a unique way so let's start looking at these different questions in a bit more detail okay here we go so the way these next slides are going to work is um we're going to I'm going to just discuss a little bit more the question give you some ideas suggest some sentence STS and then what you have to do is when I say pause and then stare at you like that maybe I'll blink and then I'll pause you pause the video and then you write down your ideas either on a sheet that's already been prepared for you or just just in your book or on a piece of paper you can copy down the question and then you can write your ideas now you're going to want to write roughly let's say probably about 80 words for each one of these questions something like that okay roughly 80 words yeah 80 words okay so what was your initial response to the stimuli the picture and what were the intentions of the piece so what's this asking you you know what did you think when you first saw the picture what did you think it was about what do you think was happening to the character what about the use of colors that the painters used did that give you any feelings for the tone of the piece the way it would um the kind of of atmosphere that you might want to create what about those figures at the back can you see them there's two little figur walking away what are they doing did that give you an idea for a story what do you think you know all of these questions uh what was going to why was why is that person distressed what's happened to them what they worried about how does that relate to then you you would have got some ideas you would have thought well you know what did you want to do did you want to show people how uh mental health issues affect people today or maybe or how mental health affected people in in the past okay so that that's quite a few questions so here we go I'm going to I'm going to say pause pause the video now I'm going to Blink pause the video and write down some some ideas and uh don't worry about your spelling for now just get your ideas down try and write in full sentences don't worry no one's judging you this is just for you to get your ideas out your head onto a piece of paper and you know write like you you would talk really that's probably a good way to start for now oh where you go question one pause oh and uh I guess I get you've unpaused me now I suppose so let's look at the next slide and what work did your group do in order to explore the stimuli and to create ideas for the performance now then you think back to some of the stuff we did you know we did some physical theater work before um before we before you saw the screen we looked at the use of chorus and we looked at the use of exaggerated characters and we looked at the use of repe ition I might have left something out um you what and and what did I leave out you know so you can talk about that you did some of those up some of that work before you looked at the stimulus and then you can talk about some of the work that you did as you were creating your pce you know did you improvise some scenes did you create a piece of movement did you think about how you could use chorus did you experiment with repetition did you write things down did you brainstorm some ideas and write them down on pieces of paper which you then probably lost but then I found them and put them back into your book okay so write down as much as you can remember now and it's okay to guess you don't have to remember perfectly what work did you do to help you explore the ideas around the stimuli you just stop the pause it do your writing and then unpause it I'm on paused am I on paused okay here we go next slide and what were some of the significant moments when you were rehearsing and ref finding let me just don't use that and then go back sorry about this there we go what were some of the significant moments during the development process and when rehearsing and refining your work so there are different phases here yeah the development process was when you were getting the ideas together and a significant moment would be when you had a really good idea or when somebody else had a really good idea when you realize something that you thought was going to work wasn't as good as you thought it was and then when you found an idea that did work and maybe it led on to another one you get the general idea okay so that's the development process um when you rehearsing and refining that's when you kind of pretty much settled on what the piece looked like and then you were trying to make it better so did you work on your transitions did you try to make them smoother did you realize that maybe the thing wasn't making sense completely and you thought well maybe we'll use some facts and figures or maybe we'll use a narrator maybe we need to change the pace or maybe we'll use a piece of music or maybe we could have someone uh change the lighting for us put your ideas on paper pause the video do your writing okay I'm going to assume I'm onpause now if you didn't pause me pause me now now I'm unpaused sorry quite like being a fox it's fun right here we go now how did you consider genre structure character form style and language throughout the piece let's let's break it down easy marks the Jour was physical theater you know about physical theater it's when you're mostly using physical means nonverbal body language facial expression maybe exaggerated characters to tell the story and the style you were courage to be non-naturalistic so we weren't trying to make it look like real life we were using um stylistic things like repetition for instance that we talked about chorus exaggerated characters bigger than Life characters yeah so genre we're good with that structure let's have a look at structure what do we mean by structure you know that's how you organize the different parts of your play Within the overall form of the play which is like um what the play ends up looking like um so structure is like the skeleton of your play for example you might have a scene where the characters introduce themselves followed by a scene where they have a conflict followed by seeing where they resolve the conflict now that's really over a lot simpler than the stuff that you did but that's the structure yeah now form is the overall shape of the play um it's how you put the different parts of the play together like a puzzle for example your play it might have a a beginning a middle and an end or it might be a series of scenes that are somehow connected or you might start with you might have started with the end and then explained how the character got to that part so when you're talking about form you're talking about how it all fits together and then when you're talking about structure it's kind of like the experiment the the skeleton of the play so this bit introduces the the characters this bit was the first conflict this bit was a resolution to the conflict yeah so when we talk about structure and form they're quite similar so it can be a bit confusing but hopefully that idea of form is like how's the puzzle put together structures kind of of the skeleton yeah okay so I mean you might need to flick backwards and forwards through these slides and so you can obviously you can do that um oh language or character you know how did you develop the characters what were the characters like they would have been were some of them more naturalistic some of them more stylistic did some of them uh speak did some of them not speak why did you choose to do that um and actually you can also you don't necessarily you can also actually no scratch that bit we'll come back to that so uh character form character we've talked about about language um you know how did the characters speak did you want them to speak in a very natural way or a non-naturalistic way um were you trying to create a sense of excitement were you trying to create a sense of danger a sense of threat were they using Straight language or were they more of a kind of um using more kind of elevated type of language was it a more formal use of formal way of speaking that they were using how did you use the voices you can think you can talk about those things there okay so um here are some more points really about um how to analyze the form and structure of a piece of work um so for instance you can talk about what was the purpose of each scene How does each scene move the story forward and how does the form and structure of the play create a sense of a a wholeness or cohesion and an engagement for the audience so when you and when you're you know when you're analyzing the form and structure you could ask yourself some of these other questions you know what is the overall form of the play does it have a beginning a middle and an end or is it more fragmented is going is it is it out of chronological order how did you connect the different scenes are they connected in time chronologically or by theme [Music] um how does the form and structure of the play create create a sense of um wholeness you know for the audience and how does the form struction play how does it engage the audience so this question is the biggest one really but you don't have to answer every single one of those points because not every single one of them will relate to your piece yeah so I'm just going to flick back again look at that one okay so let's just look at the question so it's question four how how did you think about genre easy one you we doing physical theater uh structure the characters the form the style and the language throughout the process okay so write down just some of your beginning ideas for question four I'll pause the video unpaused question five how effective was your contribution to the final performance so you know reflect on your strengths as an individual and also what you did well as a group what what did you contribute you know what ideas did you come up with what do you think were actually the weaknesses of the peace but what also were the strengths of the peace what do you feel that you've achieved you know what are you pleased about what message did you get across what were the limitations of the message you could get across in the time that you had how would you do it differently if you had more time okay write down a few have a go with your answers for question five pause the video unpause the video and six you know were you were you successful and what you set out to achieve you know what did you want people to understand how did you want to impact people um what kind of a performance did you want to do yourself and did you you know did you did did you pull it off and if you did you know what do you would you think made it successful and for the parts that you were disappointed with or weren't as good you know what what would how do you want it to be different and what might you do in the future to make it even better pause the video write down your ideas unpaused here we go right so um let's just look at these marks okay so now that you've got your ideas down we can see here look here's what we're not we're not looking for this yes we don't want um sort of adequate explanations of the creat it doesn't want to be adequate some practic sound practical creation development refinement of ideas demonstrates some adequate engagement in the process of collaboration generally adequate use of drama language terminology which is sometimes appropriate so this is what we we don't want to be in this area here yes what we're looking for is that you're offer offering sustained um explanations of the creative intentions for the performance effective and sustained practical creation development and refinement of ideas from the stimuli to communicate meaning so it's really about meaning and you know being really specific and using drama language and um you know analyzing your work from the point of view of somebody who understands uh drama ideas now we're going to do a lot more work on this when you do the real exam obviously so this is the mark but just wanted to make this little video for you to encourage you um so you could do some work on your own [Music] um and you know keep going backwards and forwards on this video and you know do uh use it as a resource for yourself and by the end of it what you should have is you should have notes and ideas and sentences for each one of the six questions that's going to make up your portfolio that you will be writing uh for your mock exam yeah so for the mock exam the piece of writing is going to be about about 500 Words long which is why I said write about 80 words for each question roughly um I think that's the end of the presentation okay right so um right yeah uh Don't Panic you can do this you've got it we believe in you and um we'll see you in class when I willly turn back into a human being