Famous Five On A Treasure Island

There are many elements that help build a drama into an interesting, audience captivating piece of performance. By employing elements of drama such as voice, movement, focus, tension, situation, role, character, language and audience (Dinham, 2014), participants can create entertaining drama for their audience. In the television movie, ‘Famous Five on a Treasure Island’ (Johnson, 2012), the show’s creator has included many of the elements that are necessary for enjoyable viewing. In the following writing I will discuss three of the elements that are included in the show: tension; role, character and relationships; and situation.

Tension is the making and use of intensity in the show. Cash (2008, p. 3) describes it as ‘the development of suspense in a performance’. In the movie, ‘Famous Five on a Treasure Island’ (Johnson, 2012), tension is communicated to the audience through actions, sounds and background music. During a scene at the beginning of the movie a character is seen in a ship that is being tossed about by a storm. The ship is creaking loudly, the music is fast and furious, sounds of a gale force

In the movie there were particular characters who played their roles very convincingly. One of them, Uncle Quentin, was portrayed as an absent minded professor who was extremely scholarly and brilliant with matters of mathematics and science however was befuddled by everyday occurrences such as paying bills, excitable children and barking dogs. He was usually shouting at the other characters and constantly bumbling into walls and doors. This portrayed him in a humorous light and audience members would be drawn into the portrayal of this socially inept genius and the exchanges between him and other characters in the