Exploring Character Creation and Dramatic Conventions in Drama Class

Using a short piece of text as a stimulus, students in a drama class dive into creating characters and exploring dramatic conventions to craft scenes depicting different aspects of their characters' lives. The story unfolds in Hell's Alley, where tension and conflict shape the protagonist's experiences, leading to insightful character development and scene creation exercises.

• Drama Class
• Character Creation
• Dramatic Conventions
• Scene Crafting
• Creative Writing

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1. Hells Alley

2. Todays Lesson: Using a piece of written text as a stimulus to create a character

3. What is a stimulus?

4. Crack! The stone cools my ear, hits the bollard at the end of our road and spends itself against the boarded window of what had once been our corner shop. It was the Laz boys from the Row beyond the Engineer again. They do not like our street. We do not like them either so I do not see why they should like us. Only, why they have to pick on me I do not know. I try to slip out of school and get home with as little trouble as possible. Mind you, I can throw a stone when I have to, because it s no use being an angel when you live in hell - and that is what the gangs round about our street call it Hell s Alley . But we call it home.

6. Circle of Life

7. Conventions Flash back Flash forward Tableaux Mime Monologue Dialogue Split Stage Narration Slow Motion Voice over

8. Write a scene - Task Three: Use a convention to create a scene describing one aspect of Marty s life.

9. Extension: Class Timeline

10. You Have: Starting from just a short piece of story with almost no information: 1. Created a character from a stimulus 2. Thought in detail about their life and circumstances 3. Thought about dramatic conventions and how they could be used in this story 4. Created an outline of a scene about their life CfE Level 3: I can select relevant ideas to create a drama which is suitable for performance