Interview questions - semester 1 year 12

Question 1

Discuss how dramaturgical research helped you to understand your scripted monologue

Answer 1

• economic, political, historical forces

- context

Question 2

Discuss how you used voice techniques to develop your character in your scripted monologue

Answer 2

• say i used voice techniques to establish my character…

- pitch, pause, pace

Question 3

Discuss how you realised a gesture in your scripted monologue

Answer 3

• how did you employ it

- talk about sub conscious mannerism/ gesture

Question 4

Discuss a rehearsal process you used to develop your scripted monologue

Answer 4

• How it is used to develop the character in the monologue

Question 5

Discuss how you created mood in your scripted monologue

Answer 5

• describe staging, movement, voice

Question 6

Discuss how you showed subtext of your scripted monologue

Answer 6

• underlying meaning

- the thought behind the line

Question 7

Discuss your interpretation of your scripted monologue

Answer 7

• talk about accent, how you didn’t adopt victorian accent instead sounded posh
• made it a modern interpretation

Question 8

Discuss one approach you applied to your performance in your scripted monologue

Answer 8

• theorist practitioner
• choose one
• text based approach vs written

Question 9

Discuss the dramatic form of your scripted monologue

Answer 9

• style - presentational vs representational

- form - greek tragedy

Question 10

Discuss how you used proximity to enhance your scripted monologue

Answer 10

• shows relationship and tension

Question 11

Discuss how you realised the style of your scripted monologue

Answer 11

• is it presentational or representational

Question 12

Discuss how you interpreted your character in your scripted monologue

Answer 12

• how you changed your character

Question 13

Explain the main objective of your character in your original solo performance

Answer 13

• state the objective and how it was shown

- objective is to find daughter and leave the outside world

Question 14

Explain one element of drama used to create your original solo performance

Answer 14

• state one element of drama and how it was shown

Question 15

Explain an approach you used to develop your Original solo performance

Answer 15

• practitioner approach

- exhaustion

Question 16

Explain how you created dramatic tension in your original solo performance

Answer 16

• character journey
• vocal techniques
• sound effects

Question 17

Explain one choice you made to influence audience response to your original solo performance

Answer 17

• limit humour and add in family
• want audience to sympathise for sandrah
• illuminate character journey, dark elements of absurdism

Question 18

explain one rehearsal technique you used to create your original solo performance

Answer 18

• transformation technique
• change in emotion
• emotion through movement

Question 19

explain how you used movement techniques to enhance your original solo performance

Answer 19

• posture

- facial expressions

Question 20

explain how you used voice techniques to enhance your original solo performance

Answer 20

• pace
• projection
• tone

Question 21

explain how you developed the dramatic structure of your original solo performance

Answer 21

• clearly having a character journey

- figuring out the ending and working towards that

Question 22

explain one rehersal process you used to edit your original solo performance

Answer 22

• absurdist rehersal technique
• samuel beckett
• perform in a minimalist set and really think about where the positioning of everything is

Question 23

explain how you used improvisation to develop your original solo performance

Answer 23

• swapping between characters
• different products
• family