Lesson 9 : Dramatized Experience

Dramatic - is something that is stirring, affecting or moving

Dramatic Entrance - is something that catches and holds attention, and has emotional impacts.

Dramatized Experience can be range from : 

a. Formal Plays

- Depict life, character, culture, or a combination of the tree

b. Pageants

- Are usually community dramas that are based on local history. An example is a historical pageant that traces the growth of a school.

c. Pantomime

- is an "art of conveying a story through bodily movements" The effects of Pantomime to the audience depends on the movements of the actors.

                                                     

d. Tableau

- is a picture - like scene composed of people against a background

                                                         

e. Role - Playing

- is an unrehearsed, unprepared and spontaneous dramatization of a situation where assigned participants are absorbed by their own roles.

f. Puppets

- A puppet is an inanimate object or representational figure animated or manipulated by an entertainer, who called a puppeteer.

TYPES OF PUPPETS 

1. Shadow puppets - Flat, black silhouette made from lightweight cardboard shown behind a screen

                                 

2. Rod puppets - flat, cut-out figures tacked to a stick with or more movable parts, and are operated below the stage through wires or rods.

3. Glove-and- Finger puppets - make use of gloves which small costumed figures are attached.

4. Marionettes - flexible, jointed puppets operated by string or wire attached to a cross bar and maneuvered form directly above the stage