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This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to develop and apply a range of stagecraft skills during performances. The unit applies to those who are musicians and performers in all genres, whose image and reputation rely on the way they approach performances and engage with audiences, and not just their ability to play an instrument or sing. No licensing, legislative or certification requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication.
Supersedes and is equivalent to CUAMPF402
Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS
| Joondalup | Mount Lawley | South West (Bunbury) | |
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| Vet Full | Not Offered | 25 x 1.5 hour practical class | Not Offered |
For more information see the Semester Timetable
The candidate must demonstrate the ability to complete the tasks outlined in the elements, performance criteria and foundation skills of this unit, including evidence of the ability to: develop and apply stagecraft skills suited to performance style on at least three occasions. In the course of the above, the candidate must: engage effectively with audience interact professionally with other performers on stage, acknowledging their work as required evaluate own stagecraft skills and integrate feedback from others to improve skills perform safely in line with work health and safety (WHS) principles.
The candidate must be able to demonstrate knowledge to complete the tasks outlined in the elements, performance criteria and foundation skills of this unit, including knowledge of: key stagecraft skills and strategies to develop stagecraft skills uses of technology to enhance stage image issues and challenges that arise in context of applying stagecraft skills to performances and strategies for overcoming safe work practices and principles related to performing using stagecraft skills, including those relating to: safe sound levels for performance, and optimal length of exposure to protect hearing physical risks of carrying equipment, and safe lifting practices to avoid injury principles of stage fitness, and healthy posture habits that can be used in practice, rehearsal and performance techniques to reduce performance anxiety methods and techniques for: interacting professional with other performers on stage communicating with audiences, including gestures, mannerisms and facial expressions mental and physical warm-up and warm-down exercises and routines for using stagecraft skills in performance strategies to evaluate and improve own performance and respond to feedback.
Skills in this unit must be demonstrated in a workplace or simulated environment where the conditions are typical of those in a working environment in this industry. This includes access to: instruments, documentation and equipment required to demonstrate the performance evidence opportunities to perform before an audience. Assessors of this unit must satisfy the requirements for assessors in applicable vocational educational and training legislation, frameworks and/or standards.
GS5 VET GRADING SCHEMA Used for WAAPA VET only
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.
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.
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.
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:
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).
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).
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.
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.
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.
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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