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    This document provides an overview of dramas and movies. It defines dramas as stories composed in dialogue to be watched rather than read. The document outlines Aristotle's six elements of drama and the modern theater's elements, which include character, plot, theme, dialogue, convention, and genre. It also categorizes elements into literary, technical, and performance areas. Literary elements include plot components like initial incidents and climax. Technical elements cover scenery, costumes, props, lights, and sound. Performance elements involve acting, character motivation, and vocal expression. The document concludes with a brief history of early movie technology and identifies the Lumière brothers' 1895 showing in Paris as the first movie presented to a paying audience.

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    APPRECIATING DRAMAS

    &MOVIES

    GROUP 10
    RICHEL GAVIOLA BRUA
    RONALYN BARRERA
    OBJECTIVES:
    At the end of session , you will be able to:
    • Define Dramas and Movies.
    • Identify the Elements of Dramas.
    • Classify the four types of drama.
    • You will know, about legends, myths, stories and plays used in
    dramas and movies.

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    What is drama?
    The word drama is taken
    from the word “dran”
    Which means to move or to
    act. It is a kind of story
    composed in dialogue not to
    be read but to be watched
    because it is acted on stage

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    FOUR TYPES OF DRAMA
    COMEDY Tragedy
    A genre of fiction that consist of discourses A serious drama typically describing a
    or works intended to be humorous or conflict between the protagonist and a
    amusing by inducing laughter, especially in superior force (such as destiny) and having a
    theatre, film, etc.. sorrowful or disastrous conclusion that elicits
    pity or terror.

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    FOUR TYPES OF DRAMA
    • MELODRAMA
    • TRAGICOMEDY
    A modern melodrama is a dramatic
    Tragicomedy is a literary genre work in which the plot, typically
    that blends aspects of both sensationalized and for a strong
    tragic and comic forms. emotional appeal, takes precedence
    over detailed characterization.

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    Aristotle
    Aristotle (384-322 BC) was a Greek
    philosopher whose writings still influence
    us today. He was the first to write about
    the essential elements of drama more Click icon to add picture
    than 2000 years ago.While ideas have
    changed slightly over the years,we still
    discuss Aristotle’s list when talking about
    what makes the best drama.

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    Aristotle’s six Elements of Drama
     Plot
     Theme
     Characters
     Dialogue
     Music /Rhythm
     Spectacles

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    The Modern Theater
    In the modern theater, this list has changed slightly, although you will
    notice that many of the elements remain the same. The list of essential
    elements in modern theater is as follows:
    Character
    Plot
    Theme
    Dialogue
    Convention
    Genre
    Audience

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    Cathegorized into three major areas:

    LITERARY ELEMENTS

    TECHNICAL ELEMENTS

    PERFORMANCE ELEMENTS

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    LITERARY
    ELEMENTS
    LITERARY ELEMENTS
    1) Initial incidents –the never that “gets the story going”.
    2) Preliminary event –Whatever takes place BEFORE the action of the
    play that is directly related to the play.
    3) Rising Action –A series of events following the initial incidents and
    leading up to the dramatic climax.
    4) Climax –The turning point or high point of a story,when events can
    go either way.
    5) Falling Action –The series of events following the climax
    6) Denouement –Another term for the conclusion from the French word
    for unravelling.

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    OTHER LITERARY ELEMENTS
    • Exposition –the when, who, where and what part of the play
    • Story Organization – beginning ,middle ,end
    • Conflict –the internal or external struggle between opposing forces,
    ideas, or interest that creates dramatic tension.
    • Suspense -a feeling of uncertainty as to the outcome, used to build
    interest and excitement on the part of the audience.
    • Language –in drama, the particular manner of verbal expression, the
    diction or style of writing, or the speech or phrasing that suggest a
    class or profession or style of character.
    • Style –the shaping of dramatic material ,settings ,or costumes in a
    deliberately non-realistic manner.

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    TECHNICAL
    ELEMENTS
    TECHNICAL ELEMENTS
    • Scenery( set ) –the theater equipment,such as curtains,flats backdrop,or
    platforms, used in a dramatic production to communicate environment.
    • Custumes: clothing and accessories worn by actors to portray character
    and period.
    • Props –Short for properties; any articles ,except costumes or scenery,
    used as part of dramatic production; any moveable object that appears
    on stage during a performance ,from a telephone to a train.
    • Lights – the placement,intensity ,and color of lights to help
    communicate environment, mood, or feelings.
    • Sound- The effect an audience hears during performance to
    communicate character, context ,or environment.
    • Make-up –Custumes ,wigs ,and body paint used to transform an actor
    into a character.

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    PERFORMANCE
    ELEMENTS
    PERFORMANCE ELEMENTS
    •Acting –use of face ,body ,and voice to portray character.
    •Character motivation – The reason or reason of characters behavior;an
    incentive or inducement for further action for a character.
    •Character analysis - In responding to dramatic art,the process of
    examining how the elements of drama –literary,technical, and
    performance are used
    •Empathy – the capacity to relate to the feelings of another.
    •Speaking – the mode of expression or delivery of lines.
    •Breath control – proper use of the lungs and diaphragm muscle for
    maximum capacity and effieciency of breath for speaking
    •Vocal expression –how an actor uses his or her voice to convey character.

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    PERFORMANCE ELEMENTS
    • Inflection –Change in pitch or loudness of the voice.
    • Projection –how will the voice carries to the audience
    • Speaking style –the mode of expression or delivery of lines.
    • Diction –selection and pronounciation of words; clarity of speech
    Non Verbal Expression:
    Gesture - any movement of the actor’s head, shoulder ,arm ,,hand ,leg, or
    foot to convey meaning
    Facial expression - physical and vocal aspects used by an actor to convey
    mood, feelings ,or personality.

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    MOVIES
    MOVIES
    -A film, also known as a "movie" or a "motion picture," is a
    series of moving images shown on a screen, usually with sound,
    that make up a story.
    EARLY TECHNOLOGY

    KINOSCOPE – is an early motion picture


    exhibition device be designed for
    one person at a time through a
    peephole viewer window.

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    • VITASCOPE (by THOMAS
    EDISON) • The history of film chronicles
    is a large electrically powered that development of a visual art
    projector that uses light to cast images. form created using film
    The images being cast are originally technology that began in the late
    taken by a kinetoscope mechanism.
    19th century.

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    Who made the first film?
    • Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince was a French artist and the
    inventor of an early motion-picture camera, possibly the first
    person to shoot a moving picture sequence using a single lens
    camera and a strip of film.

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    Where was the first movie?
    • The first to present projected moving pictures to a paying
    audience were the Lumière brothers in December 1895 in
    Paris, France.

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    End

    THANK YOU…

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