VCE Units 1 & 2 - Drama
VCE Units 1 & 2 - Drama
Overview
In VCE Drama, students tell stories, explore ideas, make sense of their worlds and communicate meaning through the practice of performance-making. The study of Drama enables students’ individual and collective identities to be explored, expressed and validated. Students develop an ability to empathise through understanding and accepting diversity.
Unit 1 – Introducing Performance Styles
In this unit, student’s study three or more performance styles from a range of social, historical and cultural contexts. They examine drama traditions of ritual and storytelling to devise performances that go beyond re-creation and/or representation of real life as it is lived.
Areas of Study:
- Creating a Devised Performance – Ability to devise and document solo and/or ensemble drama works based on experiences and/or stories (Folio Assessment Task).
- Presenting a Devised Performance – Perform devised drama works to an audience (Performance Assessment Task).
- Analysing a Devised Performance – Analyse the development, and the performance to an audience, of devised work (Written Assessment Task).
- Analysing a Professional Drama Performance – Analyse the presentation of ideas, stories and characters in a drama performance by professional or other drama practitioners (Written Assessment Task).
Unit 2 – Australian Identity
Students study aspects of Australian identity evident in contemporary drama practice. This may also involve exploring the work of selected drama practitioners and associated performance styles. This unit focuses on the use and documentation of the processes involved in constructing a devised solo or ensemble performance.
Areas of Study:
- Using Australia as Inspiration – Devise and document the processes used to create a solo or ensemble performance that reflects an aspect or aspects of Australian identity and contemporary drama practice (Folio Assessment Task).
- Presenting a Devised Performance – Present a devised performance that reflects aspects of Australian identity and contemporary drama practice (Performance Assessment Task).
- Analysing a Devised Performance – Analyse the development, and performance to an audience, of their devised work (Written Assessment Task).
- Analysing an Australia Drama Performance – Analyse and evaluate a performance of a drama work by Australian practitioners (Written Assessment Task).
Prerequisites and Corequisites
Students would be expected to have satisfied the work requirements of Year 9 or 10 Drama.