Wednesday, February 18, 2009

What is DRAMA?

Drama is when two or more people have different kinds of problems that seems to not get solved. It can also be when a group of people start having bad attitudes toward each other and then when other people out of the argument start watching them.

Drama can be also be described as a genre where elements of drama can be also included. One of the seven elements of drama is the script. The script is usually a copy of text used to direct a director or the performer when doing a play, movie, broadcast etc. It tells what the performer needs to do, the emotions they have to express and every other little detail they have to act out. A set is the place where the story is going to take place like in the forest, the city etc. It is used mostly in stages to see where the story is going to take place at and is important because if you don't have a set, it will not be so interesting to watch.

Costumes are used for characters in plays that have certain kinds of styles of clothes, accessories, hairstyle which needs to be related to the country they are in, the way they act, talk, and of course the time period they are in. Actors are performers who act out plays and are diricted with scripts. Diaologue is a conversation between two or more people and they are used for plays so that actors may use it when they are talking. Lights is where a person diricts different kinds of lights like if they have to be on/off or only one light has to be in only one person. The sounds are sounds that are used when actors are doing something that may look like if it will to sound of. For example, when an actor hits the floor, the person in charge of the sound would turn on a sound that may go BOOM or BAM or something like that.

Last but not least, the historical context would describe the background or what the play is going to be about. It is mostly used as a summary to see what the play or movie is going to be about(lists the main/important events that is going to happen during the play, movie etc.)