Comedy SOW 1 Introduction to genre – Comedy 4 Slapstick Techniques 2 The classics – British values 5 The different types of humor 3 Understanding Melodrama 6 Assessment Script reading, script writing, projection, body language and gesture, vocal control, performance, rehearsals, devising, unsung heroes, confidence, team work, timings, stage direction, history of theatre, physicality, mime, melodrama, rhythm, pitch, tone, pace, written reflections, characterisation, peer and self-assessment, critical reflections and reviews. Personal skills development: • Confidence • Empathy • Understanding of others • Situational awareness • Hand to eye co-ordination • Memory recall • • • • • • • KS3 2021 Physical awareness Positive choices Problem solving Patience Behaviour analysis Leadership Creativity National curriculum links: No national curriculum for drama/performing arts Key Stage 2 Drama - N. Irelands national curriculum for KS2 Drama enables pupils to negotiate situations both in and out of role. By engaging in a range of dramatic activities, they develop their understanding of the world. Using creative and imaginative role play situations, pupils can explore their own and others’ feelings about a range of cultural and human issues. They learn to employ the strategies of hot seating, tableau, freeze frame, thought tracking and conscience alley. By exploring voice, movement, gesture and facial expression, they develop their dramatic skills. They learn to make meaning clear for themselves and perhaps for an audience – such as their peers – as well. Monday 8th March 2021 Task 1 Match up the correct subject specific vocabulary to the meaning? Comedy a person's ability to perceive humour or appreciate a joke. Technique the style or genre represented by films, plays, and broadcast programs and literature. Humour a skillful or efficient way of doing or achieving something. Challenge question Why do some people find things funny that others don’t? Ask a Older Person Task! Ask someone (older than you) who these two people are. Monday 8th March 2021 Task 1 Match up the correct subject specific vocabulary to the meaning? Comedy a person's ability to perceive humour or appreciate a joke. Technique the style or genre represented by films, plays, and broadcast programs and literature. Humour a skillful or efficient way of doing or achieving something. Challenge question Why do some people find things funny that others don’t? Ask a Older Person Task! Ask someone (older than you) who these two people are. What is Comedy? Comedy is one of the earliest genres of performance. Comedy is any work that is intended to incite laughter and amusement, especially in theatre, television, film, stand-up comedy or any other entertainment medium. It dates back to the Ancient Greeks, originating from the comedy literary definition which refers to a medieval story or narrative involving an amusing character that triumphs over poor circumstances, creating comic effects. One of the earliest Comedy plays includes a play called Lysistrata, is an ancient Greek comedy by Aristophanes, originally performed in classical Athens in 411 BC! Lysistrata is based on around a devastating war and how the wives of the soldiers follow the lead of Lysistrata by agreeing to not have sex with their husbands until a treaty can be made between the men of Sparta, and Athens. Here humour is rife as the writer (a Greek man called Aristophanes) intended to make fun of the fact that women have the power throughout, which is something considered a farce (ridiculous) back in those times, he also aimed to mock the elders (like our Modern day Government) by making a chorus of Old men who were foolish throughout, this is Satire because it is using humour to create the politics. Genre NOUN a style or category of art, music, or literature. "the spy thriller is a very masculine genre" · synonyms: category · class · classification · categorization · group · grouping · Watch the YouTube clip then answer the 4 questions. Remember to back up your answers with evidence. Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise, known as Morecambe and Wise (and sometimes as Eric and Ernie), were an iconic English comic double act, working in variety, radio, film and most successfully in television. ‘Morecambe and Wise use the rhyme of the music to create comedy, almost like a dance. They throw things around to each other to the music, while acting like everything is normal! This makes the normality to making breakfast funny.’ • How do you know that this is comedy? • What are they doing to be funny? • How do they use the music to create humour? • Do you think they are funny? Challenge Question What sub genre of comedy do Morcambem and Wise fall into? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFgdhZGLJrY This task should take you no longer than 5 minuets! • What is comedy? • What different styles of comedy can you name? • Where did comedy originate from? • List 5 other Genres other than comedy. Please answer in full sentences! ‘Comedy is a the style or genre represented by films, books, TV and the internet. Comedy’s intent is to…’
