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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.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Theatre Production 2

  • Unit Code

    ACT2105

  • Year

    2022

  • Enrolment Period

    1

  • Version

    1

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus

  • Unit Coordinator

    Mr Trent Anthony BAKER

Description

This unit requires students to test and apply various acting processes and stage craft techniques to two theatre productions. The unit demands a high level of integration between the acting, voice and movement strands to create a compelling performance. Students are expected to engage with the research and contribute to the development of the work in rehearsal and performance with precision and astute attention to detail, so that their work enhances the entire production.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded ACT2005

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Create and sustain a believable character, responding organically to the content and form of the play and to scene partners.
  2. Apply appropriate intermediate level vocal techniques to the creation of performance.
  3. Perform with clear, well focused and reasonably detailed physical skills as they relate to the role and production.
  4. Collaborate openly and creatively within the production and display a solid understanding of professional theatre practice and self-management.
  5. Engage in self-reflection, displaying a solid understanding of process and integration of skills, and identify goals for improvement.

Unit Content

  1. Theatre production (A): A heightened text play to stretch and challenge actors and encourage the testing of process.
  2. Theatre production (B): A non-naturalistic genre play to stretch and challenge actors and encourage the testing of process.
  3. Research and development.
  4. Script analysis.
  5. Character development, function and arc.
  6. Rehearsal technique.
  7. Integrate all actor processes, voice, movement and acting to the realization of the specific challenges of the text and production.
  8. Mental reconnaissance.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 2Not Offered55 x 4 hour practical classNot Offered
Semester 2Not Offered11 x 1.5 hour studioNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Rehearsals and performance for public in short season. Collegial and collaborative interaction with production students and staff.

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
PerformanceProduction 140%
PerformanceProduction 240%
Reflective PracticeRehearsal logbook, debrief, written self-assessment20%

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 Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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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.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Theatre Production 2

  • Unit Code

    ACT2105

  • Year

    2022

  • Enrolment Period

    2

  • Version

    1

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus

  • Unit Coordinator

    Mr Trent Anthony BAKER

Description

This unit requires students to test and apply various acting processes and stage craft techniques to two theatre productions. The unit demands a high level of integration between the acting, voice and movement strands to create a compelling performance. Students are expected to engage with the research and contribute to the development of the work in rehearsal and performance with precision and astute attention to detail, so that their work enhances the entire production.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded ACT2005

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Create and sustain a believable character, responding organically to the content and form of the play and to scene partners.
  2. Apply appropriate intermediate level vocal techniques to the creation of performance.
  3. Perform with clear, well focused and reasonably detailed physical skills as they relate to the role and production.
  4. Collaborate openly and creatively within the production and display a solid understanding of professional theatre practice and self-management.
  5. Engage in self-reflection, displaying a solid understanding of process and integration of skills, and identify goals for improvement.

Unit Content

  1. Theatre production (A): A heightened text play to stretch and challenge actors and encourage the testing of process.
  2. Theatre production (B): A non-naturalistic genre play to stretch and challenge actors and encourage the testing of process.
  3. Research and development.
  4. Script analysis.
  5. Character development, function and arc.
  6. Rehearsal technique.
  7. Integrate all actor processes, voice, movement and acting to the realization of the specific challenges of the text and production.
  8. Mental reconnaissance.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 2Not Offered55 x 4 hour practical classNot Offered
Semester 2Not Offered11 x 1.5 hour studioNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Rehearsals and performance for public in short season. Collegial and collaborative interaction with production students and staff.

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
PerformanceProduction 140%
PerformanceProduction 240%
Reflective PracticeRehearsal logbook, debrief, written self-assessment20%

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 Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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