production areas encompass design elements or technologies that are applied within a performance.
The Study Design for VCE Drama explains that production areas encompass design elements or technologies that are applied within a performance. Production areas can work separately or be combined in order to structure, enhance and realise (bring to life or make real) the dramatic potential of stimulus material. They may contribute to establishing character, era, place, mood or theme, or provide social commentary within a performance. In VCE Drama, production areas are applied in ways that are relevant to selected performance style(s).encompass the technical aspects that are used within a performance. They work together to structure or to realise the dramatic potential of stimulus material, and to establish the time period, the place and the mood of a performance. In VCE Drama production areas are used in ways that are relevant to the selected performance style/s.
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