GCSE and Alevel Drama Design Workbook

A full and comprehensive work booklet for Design candidates in GCSE and Alevel Drama

Keeping Design students busy can be tricking during devising components.
It’s all to easy for designers to (sometimes prematurely) think of one idea and stubbornly stick to it or worse- do nothing until a week or two to go!

This booklet has been created to challenge, build on ideas and more importantly encourage the Designer to work with their group, make observations and create design that marries it all together!

The booklet also includes Homework tasks or ‘Home Tasks’

Frequent note taking is encouraged and students can easily refer back to the work completed to use for their logbooks.

The work pages don’t have to be completed in a rigid order, but have been placed as such to help structure the creative process.

This workbook is not to create unnecesary marking for the teacher but it is an easy way to keep track of what’s going on and check in with your design students.

This workbook has successfully been implemented in a Grammar School working with the WJEC exam board and has also been created with AQA in mind.

The document is ideally printed in A3.
it has 41 pages of work space which include:

• Aims and intentions
• Initial Response and links to Stimulus / practitioner
• Guided Research of style/genre
• Drawing space
• Work to complete with performers
• Prompts to consider space, staging and audience
• Case Studies activity- Analysis of existing stage design
• Design Management and considering practicalities
• Self reflection
• To Do Lists and planning space
  and more!