Drama

The
INTRODUCTION
INTRODUCTION
What is Drama?
a written work that tells a story
through action and speech and is
acted out : a usually serious play,
movie, or television production.

is the specific mode of fiction

represented in performance: a play,
opera, mime, ballet,
 The
ELEMENTS OF DRAMA
 The ELEMENTS OF DRAMA

CHARACTERS

A character is a person, animal,

being, creature, or thing in a story.

Writers use characters to perform

the actions and speak dialogue,
moving the story along a plot line


Setting

The setting is often established on a stage, or the physical space

upon which actors move. It is when and where the action of
a play takes place. situation.

PLOT
Plot is organized pattern or
the sequence of
interconnected events within
the story of a play, novel, film,
epic, or other narrative
literary work.
THE FIVE
ELEMENTS
MAIN OF PLOT
The The
EXPOSITION RISING ACTION
The main character is in
At the beginning of
crisis and events leading
the story, characters,
up to facing the conflict
setting, and the main
begin to unfold. The
conflict are typically
story becomes
introduced. complicated.
The CLIMAX The FALLING ACTION
At the peak of the story, a
The story begins to
major event occurs in which the
main character faces a major slow down and work
enemy, fear, challenge, or towards its end, tying
other sources of conflict. The
up loose ends.
most action, drama, change,
and excitement occur here.
The
RESOLUTION/DENOUEMENT
Also known as a denouement, the
resolution is like a concluding paragraph
that resolves any remaining issues and
ends the story.
 SCRIPT SCENE
A play script is a piece of writing
written for the stage. A play script will A scene is a dramatic part of a
include a list of characters (at the story, at a specific time and
very beginning). It may be divided place, between specific
into acts which are then divided into characters.
scenes
DIALOGUE
conversation between two or more people as
a feature of a book, play, or movie. Dialogue is
a written or spoken conversational exchange
between two or more people, and a literary
and theatrical form that depicts such an
exchange.
 TOOLS
PROPS - Is an object used on stage or on screen by.
actors during a performance or screen production.
COSTUMES - a particular style of clothing worn to
portray the wearer as a character or type of character at
a social event in a theatrical performance on the stage or
in film or television.
LIGHTNING - lighting design has a major influence on the
mood of a scene and the audience's experience. Lighting can
simulate different times of day, suggest intensity, show
happiness, call attention to one particular actor or stage
piece, and enhance the audience's experience in many other
ways.
 TOOLS
MUSIC - Music can reveal the inner emotional life
of a character, foreshadow a vicious attack or
budding love, or comment on the action onstage.

SCENES -A scene is a dramatic part of a story,

at a specific time and place, between specific
characters.
STAGE - The stage is a designated space for the
performance of productions. The stage serves as a space
for actors or performers and a focal point for the
audience.
The theme is the philosophy that
forms the base of the story or a
moral lesson that the characters
learn. It is the message that the
play gives to the audience. The
message a play or drama
communicates about its subject.

THEME
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