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School: Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Acting Skills 3

  • Unit Code

    ACT2104

  • Year

    2021

  • Enrolment Period

    1

  • Version

    1

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus

  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Glenda LINSCOTT

Description

An integration of the technical, imaginative, and personal discoveries of the preceding units through scene study and exercise work, deepening acting processes to play realism and naturalism with authenticity, and leading to meeting the demands of works with heightened text.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded ACT2004

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply imagination and acting technique to developing and performing a role in heightened texts.
  2. Rehearse and perform with well realised relationships with scene partners, displaying subtle and varied means of action playing with wholly appropriate intensity, conflict, high stakes, uncertain outcome and challenging given circumstances.
  3. Display vocal integration, accurate learning of text, efficient articulation and effective breath support in the performance of heightened text.
  4. Display physical integration of character, spatial relationships, kinaesthetic response and body awareness in performance.

Unit Content

  1. Chekhov, Shakespeare and heightened text scene studies.
  2. Rehearsal processes.
  3. Meissner acting method (intermediate level).

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECUs LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 1Not Offered24 x 1.5 hour seminarNot Offered
Semester 1Not Offered12 x 3 hour studioNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
PerformanceShakespeare and heightened text60%
ExerciseMeissner and psychology for actors30%
Reflective PracticeJournal, rehearsal logbook and self-reflection10%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Acting Skills 3

  • Unit Code

    ACT2104

  • Year

    2021

  • Enrolment Period

    2

  • Version

    1

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus

  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Glenda LINSCOTT

Description

An integration of the technical, imaginative, and personal discoveries of the preceding units through scene study and exercise work, deepening acting processes to play realism and naturalism with authenticity, and leading to meeting the demands of works with heightened text.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded ACT2004

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply imagination and acting technique to developing and performing a role in heightened texts.
  2. Rehearse and perform with well realised relationships with scene partners, displaying subtle and varied means of action playing with wholly appropriate intensity, conflict, high stakes, uncertain outcome and challenging given circumstances.
  3. Display vocal integration, accurate learning of text, efficient articulation and effective breath support in the performance of heightened text.
  4. Display physical integration of character, spatial relationships, kinaesthetic response and body awareness in performance.

Unit Content

  1. Evidence of script analysis, research, dictionary work.
  2. Rehearsal processes. Create, rehearse, and sustain an imaginary world.
  3. Creation and transformation of character, with vocal, physical and imaginative connection.
  4. Relationships with scene partners and imaginary contacts.
  5. Relationship to audience.
  6. Physical body in imaginative response to the given circumstances.
  7. Serve the text by revealing its complexity.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECUs LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 1Not Offered24 x 1.5 hour seminarNot Offered
Semester 1Not Offered12 x 3 hour studioNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
PerformanceShakespeare and heightened text60%
ExerciseScreen Scenes30%
Reflective PracticeJournal, rehearsal logbook and self-reflection10%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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