How to annotate your script

see links on the Drama at Hornby High School site for more tips on script annotation

As you have prepared your performance you will have been annotating your script to help guide your final performance.

Take this opportunity to make a final check that your annotations reflect your planning for the scene and your performance.

You could include:

·        Entrances, Exits or any stage directions you have been using.

·        Motivation or intention for your lines. Consider both literal meaning and subtext here.

·        Draw your pathways in the margins

·        Mark any pauses with / or // depending on length.

·        Any gestures you will use and how you will use them.

·        How you will use both personal and general space to communicate meaning within your performance?  You could draw these changes down the right hand column of your script.

·        Changes in pitch, pace, projection, volume and tone.

·        Body movements; their pace, energy, direction and timing.

Your annotated script and statement of context must be handed in at the end of your performance