Storytime
The TECHNICAL stuff
Lights, Camera, ACTION
CREATIVE Dramatics
EXTRA
100
The background, time, and place of where the action of a story, play, movie, or show takes place. It's the where and when of a story.
What is SETTING?
100
The VISUAL BACKGROUND on a stage that tells you where the action is taking place.
What is the SCENERY or SET?
100
The art of speaking and moving to create characters in plays, movie, and TV. It is an actor PRETENDING to look, feel, and think like different characters.
What is ACTING?
100

An instruction in the text of a play, especially one indicating the movement, position, or tone of an actor, or the sound effects and lighting.

What is stage directions?

100

Where the setting of "The Prince and the Pauper" takes place?

What is England?

200
It's WHO the story is about. It can be people or animals.
What are CHARACTERS?
200

It's something that actors WEAR such as a fake beard or wigs to LOOK LIKE their characters and to make themselves as more believable as those characters.

What are COSTUMES?

200
VOCAL expression, projection, style, and diction are all forms of this performance element.
What is SPEAKING?
200

A very poor person

What is a pauper?

200

The written words of the speech and actions of performers said by actors.

What is a script?

300
The SERIES OF EVENTS of a story; the BEGINNING, MIDDLE, and END.
What is PLOT?
300

It shines a room and affects the mood or tone and helps focus the audience's attention.

What is lighting?

300
Actors use these with, and sometimes without, speaking to help convey messages or emotions. Sometimes these are done with the body (such as nodding, waving, or shrugging) but also with facial expressions (such as smiling or frowning).
What is NONVERBAL EXPRESSION or GESTURES?
300
This is often used to help people understand ROLES or what it's like "to be another's shoes". Actors act like someone else to help others or themselves understand the person they are acting like.
What is ROLE-PLAYING?
300

Anything actors touch or use during a play such as s glass of water, a sword, a phone, sword.

What are PROPS?

400

This is the proof that resolves the conflict in the story "The Prince and the Pauper"  

What is the great seal?

400

A form of drama that includes acting, music, singing, and dancing.

What is a musical?

400
A conversation between two or more characters.
What is DIALOGUE?
400
This is when someone shares words, images, and sounds that bring the plot of a story to life. All cultures have some form of this special art.
What is STORYTELLING?
400
A character is someone who the story is about but this is the PERSON who is pretending to be that character.
What is an ACTOR?
500
A STRUGGLE OR PROBLEM a character must solve by the end of the story or play. It is usually someone or something that tests, or challenges, a character.
What is CONFLICT?
500

The speaker of the story; sometimes he is not a character in the story .

What is the narrator?

500
A speech made by ONE character who speaks to a silent listener or an audience.
What is a MONOLOGUE?
500
This is the most common form of drama.
What is a PLAY?
500

A person or thing that succeeds another.

What is a successor?