Assessment Type 3: Creative Synthesis

For a 10-credit subject, students undertake one creative synthesis task. 

For a 20-credit subject, students undertake one creative synthesis task. 

In a creative synthesis task, students apply the dramatic process to a published dramatic text or self-devised piece to create a concept or vision for a hypothetical (or actual) dramatic product. In the creation of their product, students also apply technology imaginatively and innovatively, and take creative risks.  

Students may choose to create their hypothetical (or actual) dramatic product in response to the shared dramatic text studied in the Understanding and Responding to Drama area of study. Alternatively, they may select another text by negotiation with the teacher, or create a self-devised dramatic work.  

Students adopt a dramatic role and discuss their artistic intentions, including their ideas and rationale for the use of innovative technology in the hypothetical staging or screening of the product. 

Roles that students may adopt include, but are not limited to: 

• designer 
• director 
• film-maker 
• playwright or screenwriter 
• actor. 

Students present their dramatic product either in an oral or multimodal presentation, or in a written response. The duration or length of one task is a maximum of 6 minutes if oral or multimodal (or equivalent), or 1000 words if written plus optional images. 

For this assessment type, students provide evidence of their learning primarily in relation to the following assessment design criteria: 

• understanding and exploration 
• critical and creative thinking 
• creative application.