GREEK WORD “DRAM” – TO ACT OR TO DO

1. GREEK WORD “DRAM” – TO ACT OR TO DO

8. ELEMENTS OF PLAY PRODUCTION • LITERARY ELEMENTS (ELEMENTS OF PROSE) • DIRECTION • ACTING • EDITING • SET DESIGN • CINEMATOGRAPHY • PRODUCTION DESIGN • COSTUME DESIGN • MAKE-UP • PROPERTIES (PROPS) • LIGHT & LIGHTING EFFECTS 12) SOUND EFFECTS 13) VISUAL EFFECTS 14) THEME SONG 15) MUSICAL SCORE 16) STORY 17) SCRIPT (DIALOGUE)

9. LITERARY ELEMENTS (ELEMENTS OF PROSE • SETTING • CHARACTERS • THEME • PLOT • CONFLICT • POINT OF VIEW • TONE • ATMOSPHERE

10. SETTING

12. Titanic was a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on 15 April 1912 after colliding with an iceberg during her voyage from Southampton, UK to New York City, US. • The sinking of Titanic caused the deaths of more than 1,500 people

16. CHARACTERS (persons who appear in the play) • MOVEMENTS: • Dynamic: • change their traits as the story progresses • Static: • remain the same throughout the story • REVELATION OF TRAITS: • By their speech and actions • By the author’s descriptions • By what other characters say about them • By their juxtaposition with other characters • 4 LEVELS OF CHARACTERIZATION: • PHYSICAL: gender, age, size, color, race • SOCIAL: economic status, profession, trade, religion, family, language, and social environment • PSYCHOLOGICAL: mindsets, attitudes, behaviors • MORAL: dilemma faced by the character

22. CHARACTERS (persons who appear in the play)

23. PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS: • PROTAGONIST • main character around whom the story revolves • PRIMARY ANTAGONIST • character who opposes the protagonist. • SUPPORTING CHARACTERS: • SUPPORTING ANTAGONISTS • Supports the primary antagonist • CONFIDANT • supporting character upon whom the protagonist confides. • FOIL • contrast to the hero but does not necessarily oppose him. • BACKGROUND CHARACTER • provides reality to the story by their mere presence • UNSEEN CHARACTER • character who, even in his absence affects the development of the story

27. THEME (central concept) • 10. Man vs Nature • 9. Man vs Himself • 8. Loss of Innocence • 7. Revenge • 6. Death as a Part of Life • 5. The Battle • 4. Individual vs. Society • 3. Triumph over Adversity • 2. Love Conquers All • 1. Good vs. Evil

33. CONFLICT (OPPOSITION: clash of actions & ideas) • SOCIAL CONFLICT (man vs. man) • protagonist and the antagonist are opposed to each other. • PHYSICAL CONFLICT (man vs. nature) • protagonist struggles against the physical forces such as natural calamities, illnesses, and the like. • METAPHYSICAL CONFLICT (man vs. supernatural) • protagonist fights supernatural beings such as gods and goddesses, vampires, werewolves, elves, fairies, and the like. • PERSONAL OR INTERNAL OR PSYCHOLOGICAL CONFLICT • character experiences a dilemma

37. POINT OF VIEW (angle of narration: 1st or 3rd person) • AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL POINT OF VIEW • first person or the “I” point of view • OMNISCIENT THIRD-PERSON POINT OF VIEW • narrator does not take part in the story, but as an all-knowing (omniscient) observer. • OBJECTIVE THIRD-PERSON POINT OF VIEW • narrator does not take part in the story, but reports objectively the events in the story. • SELECTIVE THIRD-PERSON POINT OF VIEW • narrator does not take part in the story, but he knows the speech, actions, thoughts, and emotions of some characters and reports them

40. LITERARY ELEMENTS (ELEMENTS OF PROSE • SETTING • CHARACTERS • THEME • PLOT • CONFLICT • POINT OF VIEW • TONE • ATMOSPHERE

41. TONE • emotional climate inherent in the story • tragic, angry, pathetic, condemning, condescending, accusing, satirical, cynical, romantic, sympathetic

46. ATMOSPHERE • predominant tone or mood of the literary piece.