Course Outlines - Year 9 Drama & Year 10 Film

Year 9 Drama
Year 10 Film

Back to Year 9 & 10

Te toi whakairo, ka ihiihi, ka wehiwehi, ka aweawe te ao katoa.

Artistic excellence makes the world sit up in wonder.

KAUPAPA:

Drama expresses human experience through a focus on role, action, and tension, played out in time and space. In drama education, students learn to structure these elements and to use dramatic conventions, techniques, and technologies to create imagined worlds. Through purposeful play, both individual and collaborative, they discover how to link imagination, thoughts, and feelings.
As students work with drama techniques, they learn to use spoken and written language with increasing control and confidence and to communicate effectively using body language, movement, and space. As they perform, analyse, and respond to different forms of drama and theatre, they gain a deeper appreciation of their rich cultural heritage and language and new power to examine attitudes, behaviours, and values.
By means of the drama that they create and perform, students reflect and enrich the cultural life of their schools, whānau, and communities.
Underpinned by the Key Competencies, Film enhances what students have previously learnt in Year 9 Drama and begins to explore Media literacy skills that are crucial in our ever-changing and complex technological world.
In Film, collaboration and group work are enhanced by introducing students to television and film production in the field.
The Film course suits students who have an interest in media and the arts, and want to understand how media products are planned and produced; from writing, performing, and directing, to post production and editing.

Students will build on those essential drama skills learned in the Year 7-8 junior drama programme, as well as the key skills of collaboration, communication, creativity and critical thinking.
Students will focus on drama components (techniques, elements, conventions, and technologies) in rehearsal and performance.
Students will explore aspects of performance through the creation of a lip sync performance in solo, pairs, or small groups.
Students will explore script and performance work through the Duologue unit, using a dramatic scene from West Side Story.
This course is one and a half terms in duration.

COSTS:

Students will study a range of different media products to understand how they are constructed, before working in small groups to create their own. Typical areas of focus will be creating two of the following: music video, Wes Anderson Inspired short film, movie trailer, or a Short Adventure Doco
Students will explore how to plan and produce a media product, from the initial brainstorming stages of writing a treatment, to fleshing out a shooting script, performing, shooting footage and directing, to post production with editing stages
Students have the opportunity to develop skills in front and behind the camera, while working in a fun and creative environment.
This course is two terms long in duration.

COSTS:

Note - Students need a laptop device for this course (not an iPad) to access our WeVideo editing platform online.

Students may wish to buy a memory card, to use school cameras, otherwise they may negotiate to use their cell phones for filming.

FUTURE STUDIES / CAREER OPTIONS:

Variety of tertiary courses in theatre, performing arts, drama, dance, music, visual art and media studies

Excellent ‘companion’ course for industries that involve people e.g. law, education, politics, health, hospitality, sports, media, business, tourism, management and more

Creative careers such as; stage manager, T.V / Radio commentator/reporter/presenter, playwright, set/lighting/costume designer or technician, actor, director, editor, cameraman, critic/reviewer

Increases employability by developing key competencies such as managing self, relating to others, collaborating, thinking critically, as well as participating and contributing in a practical environment

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