Year 7 Term 3 - Lesson 1

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TASK 1
Match up the different techniques with their correct description these are
all techniques that we have used and discussed since September.

Skill Description
Projection An easily recognisable but very basic character. It
usually includes exaggerated traits.

Volume How close or far away characters stand to each other.

Pace (vocal) This describes how high or low your voice is and can
help demonstrate emotion, someone who is angry
might speak lower, or it could demonstrate what a
person is doing, when we ask a question we
sometimes go higher.

Pitch How high or low actors position themselves physically.

Being higher could show a character overpowering
another.

Pause These convey emotions or reactions using eyes, ears,

nose mouth, jaw etc.

Facial Expressions The way a character will walk or move while on stage.

Body Language Making sure that your voice carries to the audience.

Posture Actions which are mostly created using our hands and
communicate something non-verbally such as a wave
communicating “hello”.

Gesture These can sometimes be added to your speech to

create a moment of tension.
Gait The position of a person's body when standing or
sitting, for example a soldier would stand upright but a
drunk person would slump.

Levels The speed with which you speak.

Proxemics How loudly or quietly you use your voice.

Character This refers to the combination of posture, gait,

positioning and gestures which communicate non-
verbally how a character feels.

Stereotype When you change aspects of yourself to make a

fictional person which you can perform.

TASK 2
Using at least 3 different physical and vocal techniques describe how
you would show a character that is:

Angry
Hands crossed, eyebrows down and shouting at them

Upset
Crying looking down and tears in your eyes

Excited
Big smile hands up and make it look like you cant wait
TASK 3
As a director you are giving feedback to two actors. Using the PEA
structure describe and explain how they should perform the line below.

Context

Scrooge is fed up and angry at everyone celebrating Christmas, he is

talking to his nephew who is trying to convince Scrouge to lighten up,
however this annoys him further.

Nephew: Don’t be cross uncle

Scrooge: What else can I be, when I live in such a world of fools as this?

Support structure.

Point For this line you need to show that

you character is...
Example Don’t be cross uncle
Analysis You should change your volume
to…
I also want your facial expressions
to look like...
And your body language should...

Point On this part of the line I want you

to...
Example What else can I be, when I live
in such a world of fools as this?
Analysis You should change your pace to...
Your posture should look like…
I want you to use your gestures by
Scrooge having is hands crossed
knock down a Christmas
decoration then try putting it back
up but fail. Then the nephew says
it in a soft voice Don’t be cross
then the uncle groans and turns
around then says his line