1. Pathway Subject: VCE Drama
YEAR 10 theatre studiEs
Pathway Subject: VCE Drama

2. Course Outline Assessment
This course focuses on understanding the different theatre styles and playmaking techniques. Students learn the skills of creating performances, becoming characters and building a relationship with an audience according to different theatre styles. The course also focuses on the technical aspects of a performance including the stagecraft elements of lighting, costume, sound, set design.
Assessment
Theatre styles folio– 20%
Ensemble performance – 30%
Ensemble review – 20%
Classroom activities- Key skills and knowledge– 20%
Research task– 10%

3. Topics Covered
Theatre styles - Greek theatre, Commedia Dell’arte, Elizabethan, Modern American, Modern Australian, Musical Theatre and more.
Stagecraft elements - Masks, Set Design, Costumes, Make-up, Direction, theatre technologies, sound and lighting.
Play-making techniques -How to build a performance

4. Topics Covered
Group Performance -Students are given a script to work with and are to create a performance of that script. The interpretation of the script and the performance is up to the ensemble and each member of the group takes on a stagecraft element to be in charge of.