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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 4

  • Unit Code

    ACT3106

  • Year

    2022

  • Enrolment Period

    1

  • Version

    2

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus

  • Unit Coordinator

    Mr Trent Anthony BAKER

Description

This capstone unit refines the skills of the actor to a professional working standard on challenging plays of different genres and styles. Students collaborate with visiting artists or staff directors, and production students and staff. They perform in a major theatrical production for the general public and are reviewed by professional critics.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded ACT3006

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Embody a refined process for developing a fully realised character while delivering a highly detailed and original performance according to the demands of the play and the production.
  2. Embody vocal transformation through seamless integration of technically assured vocal skills according to the needs of the play and the production.
  3. Perform with strong, highly detailed and fully focused physical command in relation to the play and the production.
  4. Integrate design, costume, sound and lights into an accomplished performance, and engage with audience in a sustained, sensitive and wholly appropriate way.
  5. Practice a highly refined and embodied professional attitude and approach to theatre work and apply a sophisticated self-reflection process for integration of craft and future growth.

Unit Content

  1. Theatre production: The final production will be chosen to showcase the graduating ensemble.
  2. Research and development.
  3. Mental reconnaissance.
  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. Collaboration with director, other creatives and ensemble.
  9. Working appropriately with audiences.
  10. Publicity.
  11. Self-reflection.

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 Offered6 x 1 hour practical classNot Offered
Semester 2Not Offered6 x 1.5 hour seminarNot Offered
Semester 2Not Offered11 x 1 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
WorkshopResearch and development/rehearsal processes30%
PerformanceProduction60%
Reflective PracticeLogbook, journal and 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 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 4

  • Unit Code

    ACT3106

  • Year

    2022

  • Enrolment Period

    2

  • Version

    2

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus

  • Unit Coordinator

    Mr Trent Anthony BAKER

Description

This capstone unit refines the skills of the actor to a professional working standard on challenging plays of different genres and styles. Students collaborate with visiting artists or staff directors, and production students and staff. They perform in a major theatrical production for the general public and are reviewed by professional critics.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded ACT3006

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Embody a refined process for developing a fully realised character while delivering a highly detailed and original performance according to the demands of the play and the production.
  2. Embody vocal transformation through seamless integration of technically assured vocal skills according to the needs of the play and the production.
  3. Perform with strong, highly detailed and fully focused physical command in relation to the play and the production.
  4. Integrate design, costume, sound and lights into an accomplished performance, and engage with audience in a sustained, sensitive and wholly appropriate way.
  5. Practice a highly refined and embodied professional attitude and approach to theatre work and apply a sophisticated self-reflection process for integration of craft and future growth.

Unit Content

  1. Theatre production: The final production will be chosen to showcase the graduating ensemble.
  2. Research and development.
  3. Mental reconnaissance.
  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. Collaboration with director, other creatives and ensemble.
  9. Working appropriately with audiences.
  10. Publicity.
  11. Self-reflection.

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 Offered6 x 1 hour practical classNot Offered
Semester 2Not Offered6 x 1.5 hour seminarNot Offered
Semester 2Not Offered11 x 1 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
WorkshopResearch and development/rehearsal processes30%
PerformanceProduction60%
Reflective PracticeLogbook, journal and 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 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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