Drama · GCSE
Devising
GCSE Drama knowledge mat
The Process Is the Product
A devised piece starts from nothing but a stimulus and a group: what turns that into theatre, and why the record of how you made it is assessed at all. Stimulus to intention; structure and form as decisions; the Ofqual rules you cannot devise around; the devising process in the DfE’s own order; a stimulus turned into an intention in three moves; four practitioners and what each would do with it. Twelve terms to define, a model answer on developing an idea from a stimulus, and the misconceptions that cost marks.
£3.99All 4 GCSE Drama knowledge mats, one landscape sheet each
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One purchase, all 4 GCSE Drama sheets, £3.99 for the set: this one · Performing a text · Staging, design and the written paper · Evaluating live theatre
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One landscape A4 page on one part of the drama course, built on the DfE’s own subject content and Ofqual’s national conditions rather than a board’s paraphrase, so it holds whichever specification a department follows. It carries stimulus to intention, structure and form, the Ofqual minimum lengths and the one-monologue rule, the devising process in the DfE’s order, a worked intention and four practitioners — then the vocabulary, a worked exam-style answer and the misconceptions that cost marks.
Every photograph on the sheet is a real image of a real theatre or production, licensed for reuse and credited in the running foot; the figures are drawn in code for the sheet, and the one play extract is out of copyright and verified word for word. Nothing is reproduced from a specification, a mark scheme, an examiner report or a past paper.
Sold by subject: all four drama sheets for one price. A knowledge organiser stores a unit and is revised from afterwards; this is meant to be on the table while the work is happening.
- Written to
- The DfE GCSE drama subject content (DFE-00039-2015) and Ofqual’s subject-level conditions (Ofqual/17/6198), quoted; no board’s specification or mark scheme. Every photograph is licensed and credited on the sheet; the figures are drawn in code
- Intended for
- drama teachers. On the desk during the lesson, not a student revision guide
- Extent
- One landscape A4 sheet · 9 sections
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