WJEC/Eduqas GCSE Drama: Designing Drama

PRACTICAL UNITS/COMPONENTS You can work practically as a designer for Unit/Component 1 and/or 2, and demonstrate your knowledge and understanding of design in the exam for Unit/ Component 3. Your teacher will assess your work for Unit/Component 1, and external examiners will standardise the marking by looking at examples of videos and portfolios. For Unit/Component 2, a visiting examiner will assess your work in performance. LIGHTING A t least five different lighting states for the performance SOUND A t least five sound cues for the performance. SET One actual set for the performance, including props and appropriate set dressing COSTUME Full costumes, hair and make-up for two different characters A devised design realisation This is worth 15 marks and covers AO2. For the choice of the four design roles, you need to produce: As part of the supporting evidence, you must also submit: Lighting : Cue sheets and a lighting plot Sound : Cue sheets and a sound plot Set : A set model, a ground plan and photographs of the set Costume : Final design sketches/photographs of costume, hair and make-up. Unit/Component 1: Devising Theatre As a designer, you will work as part of a group to create, develop and produce an original piece of drama, devised from a stimulus. This is assessed in three parts. Your portfolio should cover your creation and development and your analysis and evaluation of this process. It is assessed against AO1, which is worth 30 marks. The portfolio must include evidence of your ‘research, creation and development of ideas’. This evidence should focus on three stages: • How your ideas have been researched, created and developed in response to the stimulus • How ideas from the chosen practitioner/genre have been incorporated in the piece to communicate meaning • How ideas have been developed, amended and refined during the development of the devised piece. For each stage, you need to provide approximately 250 words, along with illustrative material. This could include: • sketches • photographs • ground plans • diagrams • storyboards • mood boards • sections of script • digital media, including brief recordings of sections of a rehearsal or other material, such as sound clips. You can produce your portfolio as: • a blog • an audio-visual recording • an audio commentary on the illustrative material. The portfolio 8 How You Will be Assessed