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

    Professional Voice
  • Unit Code

    ACT3003
  • Year

    2024
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    3
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Jean GOODWIN

Description

This unit focuses on integrating acquired vocal technique with professional practice. Students will learn about professional performance mediums that utilise the actor’s voice and develop skills in Voice Over, Audio Book performance and Additional Dialogue Recording (ADR) for film and television. Students will develop authentic and precise accents to prepare audition-ready stage monologues and screen tests. This unit is designed to prepare the actor with the appropriate vocal skills to meet the demands of a professional career.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply vocal techniques imaginatively and autonomously when working in a sound studio with relevant equipment and with microphones.
  2. Produce appropriate accent and dialect vocalisation to meet the demands of theatrical performance.
  3. Produce appropriate accent and dialect vocalisation to meet the demands of screen performance.
  4. Select and apply appropriate vocal techniques and style choices to the demands of recorded vocal performance for voice-overs.

Unit Content

  1. Cold reading techniques for auditions.
  2. Refining the skills of acquiring an accent and dialect for screen and theatrical performance.
  3. Practical vocal techniques to address the demands of speaking text in various performance mediums.
  4. Experience and training in Voice Over performance, Audio Book performance and Additional Dialogue Recording (ADR) for film and television.
  5. Record a Voice Over demonstration audio file, for marketing purposes.

Learning Experience

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

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 1Not Offered8 x 2 hour studioNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Teaching and learning will take the form of: studio based voice classes; group classes and individual tutorials; intensive week long workshops, small group activities pair work and solo exercises; different acoustic environments will be utilised; video recording for critical analysis and self-reflection; debriefing, feedback and class discussions.

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
PerformanceTheatrical Monologue in Dialect30%
PresentationScreen Test in Dialect 30%
PortfolioRecorded Voice Portfolio and Industry Toolkit 40%

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.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

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 as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. 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 or generative artificial intelligence tools, 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.

  • Unit Title

    Professional Voice
  • Unit Code

    ACT3003
  • Year

    2024
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    3
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Jean GOODWIN

Description

This unit focuses on integrating acquired vocal technique with professional practice. Students will learn about professional performance mediums that utilise the actor’s voice and develop skills in Voice Over, Audio Book performance and Additional Dialogue Recording (ADR) for film and television. Students will develop authentic and precise accents to prepare audition-ready stage monologues and screen tests. This unit is designed to prepare the actor with the appropriate vocal skills to meet the demands of a professional career.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply vocal techniques imaginatively and autonomously when working in a sound studio with relevant equipment and with microphones.
  2. Produce appropriate accent and dialect vocalisation to meet the demands of theatrical performance.
  3. Produce appropriate accent and dialect vocalisation to meet the demands of screen performance.
  4. Select and apply appropriate vocal techniques and style choices to the demands of recorded vocal performance for voice-overs.

Unit Content

  1. Cold reading techniques for auditions.
  2. Refining the skills of acquiring an accent and dialect for screen and theatrical performance.
  3. Practical vocal techniques to address the demands of speaking text in various performance mediums.
  4. Experience and training in Voice Over performance, Audio Book performance and Additional Dialogue Recording (ADR) for film and television.
  5. Record a Voice Over demonstration audio file, for marketing purposes.

Learning Experience

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

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 1Not Offered8 x 2 hour studioNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Teaching and learning will take the form of: studio based voice classes; group classes and individual tutorials; intensive week long workshops, small group activities pair work and solo exercises; different acoustic environments will be utilised; video recording for critical analysis and self-reflection; debriefing, feedback and class discussions.

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
PerformanceTheatrical Monologue in Dialect30%
PresentationScreen Test in Dialect 30%
PortfolioRecorded Voice Portfolio and Industry Toolkit 40%

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.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

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 as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. 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 or generative artificial intelligence tools, 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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