advice for taking A-Level Drama without having taken it at GCSE-level

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title is self explanatory. NOTE : my old school did not have GCSE Drama.

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GCSE drama is a piece of cake

just look at the keywords, feel free to ask me if you have any questions regarding to GCSE drama. the syllabus basically covers it all; get familiarised with the techniques, chair duets, etc and you’ll be absolutely fine.

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Still traumatised from remembering stage configurations and lights 💔💔💔

My teacher got so mad every time we didn’t pronounce ‘fresnel’ as ‘fruh-nells’

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this is so cool though

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Ngl it really wassss I miss IG drama sm

Would’ve taken it for AS if it didn’t clash with history

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IG drama devised when you need to make 13509105931051350 physical theatre ideas

It's so stressful and tiring

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do u guys have this info somewhere 👁️

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Why are they asking me abt proximity like😭

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wdym

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EXACTLY

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What did you do for group piece?

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i’m reworking on it

because my new drama teacher apparently said our old group piece was D grade level (our old teacher was quite soft on us so i’m grateful for this new one (not that i’m not grateful for my old one but i learn more from my new one) so we’re currently reworking on our devised as a class)
last time it was human rights and now it’s social media - most of my scene is physical theatre since abstract is always best for examiners to mark

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Oh damn

We didn’t do devised, we were exempt bc of COVID

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it’s also quite stressful as i need to deal with my other exams too

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We did group piece and 2 monologues

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our scripted was amazing

i got given a bad monologue piece as i can’t express myself much as my character is this person with autism so it’s just the character directly talking to the audience and imo it’s kind of hard to get marks with 0 emotion change

might be boring for the examiner

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Same, I loved it

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Oh damn that is hard

I did Medea for one of my monologues

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im really worried for my monologue

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If you ever need help or advice, I got an A*

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i do please dm me

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all the theory behind drama ✨

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oh theory is just common knowledge and the igcse syllabus. quote lines, say effect, say how the audience will feel, what atmosphere would it create

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ahh
but u must've covered staging n all that right?

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if you want i can answer a question to give you a brief overview of how that works
staging depends on the question itself; if you’re talking about a director question: yes

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There is a subject called Drama

The biggest drama in this entire world is me
Basil The dramatic.

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