3.3+Devised+Monologues

=This assessment standard requires students to use drama elements and conventions to devise, script and perform individual drama, with a paired drama possible for double entries. The activity also engages a research base for creating drama by developing and interpreting existing text from the internet.= =Each student will source, read, and research an international biography or a person of relative fame or notoriety that interests them. The next step involves exploring a range of devising process conventions to script an original solo piece for performance to an invited audience.=

__**Some Important notes to remember about this standard.**__
Evidence must include a portfolio that includes a **script** and **detailed statement of intention for the drama**. It must also include **evidence of key decisions, collected over an extended period**, such as scenarios, annotated scripts, digital imaging, conferencing notes, post-performance feedback, diagnostic recordings, and milestone records. The portfolio is to be submitted to the assessor **before** the performance.

//Definitions//: Devise means using **improvisation** as a key tool. Improvisation could be in the context of exploring, developing, sequencing, shaping, or refining the drama. Devise could also include using the tools of mapping, scenario, drafting and editing script, and drama **elements, conventions, techniques and technologies**. To script means to write down the format for performance. Coherent means the script is able to be realised lucidly in the live performance. Convincing means dramatically viable. Compelling could mean highly engaging, fresh, innovative, powerful, tightly structured.

//The devised work could be:// • monologue, duologue or three-person presentation • part of a group performance piece • a range of role-changed characters performed by one, two or three people • documentary drama • character or plot-driven drama • dream sequence • whaikōrero or pakiwaitara/story telling.

//The devised work could use the following conventions:// • structural – conventions that shape, or the sequence of events, eg narration, choral work, visual images; • theatre – conventions that determine the relationship between the actor, the audience and the off-stage world, eg performance space, mime, exits/entrances, theatre technologies; • textural – conventions that record action/intention, eg textual layout, textual notes/special vocabulary, prose, verse, stage directions, cast lists.

=Here are some exemplars of the standard so you can see the quality of writing required.=

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Below are some links so you can view what some previous students have devised for their performances.

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This is Aleshia performing Dido

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