LAMDA | Level 3 Outcomes

LAMDA Examinations in Acting are designed to develop the skills necessary to communicate dramatic text to an audience.

Learners who prepare themselves appropriately will develop:

1. Interpretative skills
2. Technical skills
3. Knowledge of the performance process

Learning outcomes and assessment criteria are set at each level and there is a qualitative difference in outcome between individual grades. This is because:

• The repertoire chosen by the learner should increase in linguistic and technical difficulty as the grades progress.
• The knowledge required for the set discussion increases in technical difficulty as the grades progress.

Level 3 (Grades 6, 7 & 8)

Learning Outcomes:

• The learner will be able to:
• Interpretation
  1. Create and inhabit character revealing an understanding of character and situation
  2. Communicate text, subtext and context and focus and engage with the character being portrayed
  3. Communicate character objectives, clarifying meanings and conveying mood
  4. Sustain imaginative engagement
• Technique
  1. Demonstrate practical ability in physical and vocal characterisation, communicating with appropriate audibility for character and space.
  2. Demonstrate practical ability in physical and vocal flexibility, with clarity of diction.
  3. Use the performance space in response to the text.
  4. Reveal character through body language and movement.
  5. Demonstrate practical ability in period voice and movement.
• Amplification of the learning outcomes
• Believable characters – transforming into a true-to-life character, as indicated by the text
• Progression of mood and thought – revealing changes in the way the character thinks or feels throughout the scene
• Knowledge
  • The learner will be able to describe the feelings of the characters within all acting selections