Contrasts

Contrasts occur when one or more factor is opposing other factor(s). We can observe
contrasts occurring throughout the day for example a contrast between colors such as red
and green or blue and yellow:

In this image the contrast helps the make the image far bolder and noticeable then the
image would be standalone, that’s how contrasts are used everywhere to pull attention to
certain factors. In drama contrast can often be seen in activities such as stillness next to
activity, this use of contrast helps strengthen the impact on the audience, it helps keep the
audience interested by highlighting differences. For example, if a woman is depressed and
saddened after the death of a loved one, a flashback of the woman’s joyous times with the
loved ones can be employed to create a contrast between the two activities, this contrasting
heavily amplifies the sadness of the woman and make the audience resonate with the
feelings similarly.
Contrast can also be shown in a manner to make the audience understand the weight of a
situation rather than targeting their feeling’s, such as, in the scenario of a person dying in a
crowd, their body lying on the ground which would contrast with the standing and moving
people would show a contrast between the living and the dead, thus sending a bold and
clear-cut message to the audience of a death.
Phenomena
“a fact or situation that is observed to exist or happen, especially one whose cause or
explanation is in question.”
A phenomenon is a special occurrence which is generally hard to explain, though this does
not mean that they are unexplainable, for example. Tornados, lightning and sun halos are all
considered phenomena. Though some of the phenomena which we’ve found hard to
explain are the Bermuda triangle and the northern lights
The Bermuda triangle is a mysterious triangle shaped area near Florida which is known for
the disappearance of basically anything that enters the area. Sun halos are refracted light
that takes the shape of a circular rainbow around the sun.

In drama phenomena’s usually exist as confusing situations where in the mc/protagonist or

any other character is put into a place where the author has near complete freedom to
exercise their creativity, this is sometimes used to cut any links between events that occur
previously to or post the phenomena, allowing the author to seamlessly change the
landscape of theme without seeming out of place, phenomena also generally leave an
impactful emotion on the audience in the form of shock and other related emotions as the
audience will likely find the phenomena itself to be somewhat difficult to comprehend
whichever wholly unrealistic or unreal situation the audience has likely just watched
through. Similarly, phenomena can also be used to induce humor or to make the audience
feel disturbed or uneasy. Phenomena can also be used to act as a sort of omen to
foreshadow a later even, rather than impacting the audience.
Situational training
Situation training is like putting a person into a role in a situation so that the person can be
trained to have the abilities or traits that fit that task specifically or just to check if said traits
are already present in the person. Situational training can be used in drama as another way
other than phenomena to give the writer complete freedom as situational training also
generally is implied to be made up, thus quite literally letting the writer do anything because
situational training is just basically canonical as a made-up scenario that is not really
happening in the story, meaning that since it’s made up, it can be anything.

Eye Level Photography

Eye level photography is photography that is taken at the eye level of the target, this usually
helps a viewer to put themselves in the place of the subject or to capture the emotion of the
subject far more than just any other type of imagery as generally an image taken at the eye
would show the face too, and the entire body for smaller subjects. the face is generally
where emotion is usually captured, that’s why even painted portraits were usually drawn at
eye level to show the face and its features, this is where eye level photography comes into
place with drama as emotion almost always plays a very large role when it comes to the
foundation or building blocks to a character of a character and is usually how the author
would get the audience to like or dislike a character, such as making bully toxic, sensitive
and obnoxious and the mc noble.

Laban’s Efforts-
1. Movement Training
Movement training has four major parts, Direction, Weight, Speed and Flow.

Direction is varied between direct and indirect movement, it sometimes signifies,

the arrangement or direction of props and characters, the background and how any
onstage movements are impacted by these factors
Weight is varied between heavy and light, it signifies the importance of a movement
and how each movement can have its own implication of its effects, this is especially
useful in the scenario of need to convey something to the audience rather secretly or
subtly.
Speed varies between quick and sustained and signifies the effects of a performance
as both fast and slow movements draw reactions from the audience while also giving
the actors movements their own emotion aura. Quick movements could specify
anger and slow movements could shoe speed
Flow varies between bound and free, flow of movements also help highlight a
characters emotion and are generally employed just for that purpose.
Laban’s Efforts are Floating, Dabbing, Wringing, Thrusting, Pressing, Flicking,
Slashing, and Gliding. Laban identified these Efforts by breaking down movement
into what he called the Motion Factors of Weight, Time and Space.