Acting Skills: Understanding Genre, Style, and Evaluation
In this detailed content, explore the distinctions between genre and style in acting, different acting skills, applications of those skills, aspects of voice and physical skills, and evaluating success in a role. Discover how style reflects specific performance methods, while genre signifies the piece's style. Learn about characterisation, vocal and physical expression, rehearsal techniques, and more. Additionally, delve into interpreting characters, creating atmosphere, audience responses, and the play "War Horse" by Michael Morpurgo.
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1: What is the difference between genre and a style?
3: Name some application of acting skills (preparation for performance / rehearsal)
4: There are 4 different aspects of voice skills and 3 different aspects of physical skills can you name them?
5: when evaluating your acting skills what aspects do you look at?
6: How do you know you were successful in your role?
1. Style = Indicates a specific way of performing. Naturalistic and non-naturalistic, stylised. Genre = style of the piece, Comedy, period drama, Musical Theatre. 2: characterisation, physical, vocal and facial expression; interaction with others, consideration of pace, pause, rhythm, energy. 3: close reading of the text (if scripted), gaining understanding of the characters, the plot, the theme, research into subject matter, period, location, culture or text, selection and editing of stimulus material, rehearsal techniques/ improvisation/experiment. 4: vocal skills (accent, volume, pace, pitch), physical skills (energy, gesture, interaction)
5 : acting - interpretation and creation of believable/appropriate character(s), creation of appropriate mood or atmosphere, use of pace/pause/projection. 6: audience responses laughter/tears/applause/attentive silence, creation of location.
Present New information Section C Learn me! Set me out like this in your exam! War Horse by Michael Morpurgo. Directed by Tom Morris and Marianne Elliott performed by the National Theatre London. Answer ..
Construct Meaning 09 Describe in detail how this actor used their acting skills in an effective way in your favourite scene from the production. [20 marks] A Midsummer Night s Dream by William Shakespeare Directed by Tom Morris, performed by the Hand Sprung Puppet Company. It is about lovers who fall in and out of love due to some mischievous faries with love posion. The scene I found most effective was performed by Akiya Henry who played Hermia and her lover Lysander who was played by Alex Felton. At this point Lysander is under love posion and has fallen in love with helena, Hermia is appaled by this and becomes intensely angry with Lysander. Akiya gradually builds up the frustration of Hermia through out this scene as Lysander ignores her more and more. Her movements start of as she just trys to get Lysanders attention by tapping his shoulder she gradually gets more angry as she looks like she is building up all her energy. Akiya makes this scene incredibly effective through her use of facial exspression, vocal skills and movement. As her anger builds she trys to make herself seem as big as possible elongating her body, her facial expressions become more over exaggerated as her anger increases. Her face becomes scrunched up and angry. Suddenly it is as if she just pops and runs towards Lysander her arms flying trying to get ahold of him. Her intensions were to create a comic scene. She does this by her over exaggerated movements. As Alex lifts her up her legs swrall out like a baby kicking and whyning getting frustrated. Her exspressions are unimpressed as he easily moves her out of his way to Helena creating the comedy of this scene. Her vocals are shocked and high pitched as she shows her upset towards Lysander but as Lysander lifts her up squaking, whyning and kicking out like a baby, the audience laughs creating the comic effect the Actor and the playwright intended.
Construct Meaning Mark scheme extra bits In meeting the demands of AO1 to recall, select and communicate their knowledge and understanding of drama to generate, explore and develop ideas expect candidates answers to include some of the following: identification of the production seen and the venue identification of one especially skilful actor in the opinion of the candidate identification of a specific favourite scene description of the role played by the chosen actor, in terms of, for example, the characters age, gender, status, relationship with each other description of the actors skills used in the scene, for example: voice pace, pause, accent, pitch, tone, emphasis, movement, gesture, posture, facial expressions, use of space and/or props interpretation of characters/creation of appropriate roles interaction with other characters and/or with the audience application of comic method, timing, physical theatre skills or other specialist skills (as appropriate) dialogue, use of pause and pace, cueing, physical contact, knockabout comedy, violence, romantic physical attachment creation of empathy, sympathy or distancing from the audience.
Homework For tomorrows lesson log onto padlet look at the cast list for war horse and select three actors you are going to focus on for section c. You will need these for your lesson tomorrow and we will be checking your names match ours!
Construct Meaning Q. From a performance you have seen how have three actors used their performance skills to create a character? PEE Paragraph P Within war horse the three actors who bring the main puppet to life (Joey) are Together with physical and vocal skills they .. E A good example of this would be when we see the performers I can support this because they .. . E This illustrates that in the creation of the character of Joey they .. and the acting skills they adopt makes the audience think that the puppet is
