Arrival · retrieve

Naming the event is only half the evidence

An arts event is a public arts offer: a performance, an exhibition, a screening or a workshop.

The approved event pack holds one, with its listing, its date and its credits already inside.

The assessor needs two separate things from you.

The first is the event record: the listing, the date and the venue, copied from the pack.

The second is response evidence: what you noticed in the event, and what it did.

The event record on its own names the event. It says nothing about your response.

Response evidence on its own could be about any event at all.

Today you build the second, and attach it to the first.

You need three things on the desk. The event pack. Your event record sheet. The review frame.

Starter · create the need

Two accounts of the same event

Read account A. It walks through the evening in order, from arriving to leaving.

It is long, it is accurate, and it earns almost nothing.

Read account B. It picks three moments and then stops.

It is shorter, and it is the one that gets marked.

A recount tells the assessor what happened. A review tells them what the makers chose, and what that choice did.

Order is easy to write, so most people write order. Choices are what the mark scheme asks for.

• 1 · pick the moment.
• 2 · name the choice the maker made.
• 3 · say who it acted on, and what it did.
• 4 · give a verdict you can defend.

I Do · model

One moment, worked all the way through

I take the last two minutes of the performance in the event pack.

That is my moment. It has a place and a time, so it can be checked.

Now the choice. The lighting designer cut the whole stage down to one lamp.

Lighting is a craft term. Craft terms are the words the assessor is looking for.

Now the effect. The audience notes in the pack say the shifting stopped and the room went quiet.

Now the verdict. It worked, because the ending felt small and close instead of grand.

I did not write that the show was amazing. Amazing gives nobody anything to check.

Craft terms you may use today: lighting, framing, scale, palette, tempo, staging, sound and materials.

We Do · everyone commits

Sort the cards, then match them

Eight cards are face up on your table. Each is a line from a real review.

Sort the eight cards into two groups: moments and recounts.

A moment card holds a place or a time and names a craft choice. A recount card only tells you the order things came in.

Then match each moment card to the craft choice it names: lighting, tempo, scale or palette.

Every person puts a hand on one card before anybody speaks.

Two cards are hard on purpose. They carry a time but name no choice, so they sort as recounts.

When your table has finished, hold up the card you argued about longest.

I Do 2 · connect

A verdict has to name its audience

A verdict with no audience is an opinion, and an opinion cannot be checked.

Good is not a verdict. Good for whom, and doing what, is a verdict.

The event pack names four audiences: the school group, the family audience, first-time visitors and people who already know the work.

My verdict was that the single lamp worked. Now I say who for.

It worked for first-time visitors, because it left them nothing else to look at.

The same choice can fail a different audience. One lamp may have lost the people at the back, and a strong review says so.

Last comes influence. Name one thing this event changes about your own Unit 1 plan.

• 1 · write the verdict.
• 2 · name the audience it is about.
• 3 · say what that audience did or felt.
• 4 · name one change to your own plan.

We Do 2 · lab

Two questions on your partner's moment

Work in twos. Swap sheets and read one of your partner's moments in silence.

Then ask two questions, in this order. Which choice? Which audience?

If they cannot answer the first, ring the moment and write choice missing.

If they cannot answer the second, write audience missing instead.

You are not saying the moment is bad. You are saying which box is still empty.

Then swap back and fix only the box that was ringed.

One word is banned in this task. Good, unless the next word is for.

Independent · evidence

Three moments and one verdict

Work on your own. Fill the record sheet from the event pack.

Write three moments. Each one needs a place or a time, a craft choice and an effect.

Write the effect as something people did or felt, not as a word for the whole event.

Then write one verdict sentence underneath, and name the audience it is about.

Then attach the event record from the pack, and write what it is: listing, programme page or credits.

Last, write one line saying what this event changes about your own plan.

If you finish early, swap the craft term in your weakest moment for a sharper one.

• Supported · two moments, each naming a craft choice, and one verdict.
• Standard · three moments, each with a choice and an effect, plus a verdict naming its audience.
• Stretch · as Standard, and name one audience the same choice may have failed.

Exit · Audience and Influence

Read one moment to an adult

Read one moment and your verdict to the adult at your table.

They read it back, and tell you which audience they heard in it.

If they heard none, add the audience now, in three words or fewer.

Then choose what happens next: file it, add the third moment, or start a second event from the pack.

Write that choice and today's date on the sheet before you leave.

The sheet and the event record go into the arts log folder together.