Telling stories part 1

Flashbacks and Flash forward

This technique is creating a another scene to flash forward(go into the future) or Flashbacks (go into the past) from the current scene to give it some exposition this time jump can be minutes, days or years before or after the current scene. this helps build back story for characters and a better understanding of the character or situation. this can be done with a big flashback/forward, loads of small scenes or even by freeze frames.

Split Screening

Splint-screen is a drama technique where two separate scenes of a play are happening at the same time. this is used to tell multiple key parts of a story to either show a difference in character life's or to show how to characters are similar to one-another. another form of Split-screen is where the to scenes are happening but one side is frozen while the other side perform and there is a constant swapping between the two

Narration

Narration is the technique where a singular person or a group speaks directly to the audience to tell the events in a story as they happen. this is done to give information or comment on what is currently going on in the play, this is also used to explain current motives or emotions of characters.

Sound-scape

The leader of the group or a single member acts as a conductor for the group who helps Q-ing in each member of the group to start there sound. the sounds can be either a noise from your mouth like a whistle or a beep, it can be speech like a word shouted out and it can also be a body percussion like drumming on your stomach or stamping your feet.

Monologue

A story that is performed by a single person or a group of people by performing long pieces of dialogue to the audience which explains what is going on right now, there thoughts inside there heads or there emotions they feel. there can be movement sometimes in this to show even more expression of characters emotions.