@The Arts Unit Creative Classes
@The Arts Unit Creative Classes
Student drama and VET entertainment resource developed by The Arts Unit
Years 9 to 12 drama and Years 11 and 12 VET entertainment
Your students will:
learn the fundamentals of lighting design
explore how to apply the fundamentals of lighting design to convey meaning
apply knowledge and understanding to design their own lighting.
5.2.2: selects and uses performance spaces, theatre conventions and production elements appropriate to purpose and audience.
5.2.3: employs a variety of dramatic forms, performance styles, dramatic techniques, theatrical conventions and technologies to create dramatic meaning.
P1.4: understands, manages and manipulates theatrical elements and elements of production, using them perceptively and creatively.
P2.2: understands the contributions to a production of the playwright, director, dramaturg, designers, front-of-house staff, technical staff and producers.
H1.7: demonstrates skills in using the elements of production.
Lighting
The student describes the relationship between lighting and other technical and creative aspects of live performances and events.
Google Form: create a Google form with activities and/or questions. Students can also upload any files they create. Email this form to your students with the Creative Class link and all your student responses will be combined in a Google sheet.
Google Classroom Assignment: create an assignment or a quiz in your Google Classroom with activities and/or questions. Students can also upload any files they create.
MS Teams: create a quiz or assignment in your class team drive where students can submit responses and upload any files they create.
Email: ask your students to email you any responses and files they create.
Flipgrid: a website that allows teachers to create 'grids' to facilitate video discussions. Each grid is a message board where teachers can pose questions called 'topics'. Students can post video responses that appear in a tiled grid display.
Jamboard: an interactive whiteboard which can be used for class feedback.
Download and print this document to send to students with limited access to online resources.
Would you like to promote your school and showcase your students' work as a result of engaging in this creative class?
Help us celebrate the fantastic work of NSW public school students by emailing photos or videos (that you have permission to share) and comments on how your students enjoyed the class to digital.artsunit@det.nsw.edu.au.
Please include the creative class title and your school name in the email so we can share on The Arts Unit social media and our website.
Drama 7-10 Syllabus, © NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) for and on behalf of the Crown in right of the State of New South Wales, 2003, copied under s113P, accessed 10 May 2020.
Drama Stage 6 Syllabus, © NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) for and on behalf of the Crown in right of the State of New South Wales, 2009, copied under s113P, accessed 10 May 2020.
Entertainment Industry Curriculum Framework Stage 6 Syllabus, © NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) for and on behalf of the Crown in right of the State of New South Wales, 2020, copied under s113P, accessed 10 May 2020.