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This unit describes skills and knowledge required to undertake a wide range of administrative and organisational tasks associated with assisting backstage operations for productions in the entertainment and events industries. It involves venue preparation, stage management and calling performances during productions. The unit applies to those who work autonomously in a team environment as they share responsibility for ensuring that all logistical aspects of performances run smoothly. No licensing, legislative or certification requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication.
Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS
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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: assist with stage managing and calling performances for at least two different productions. In the course of the above, the candidate must: assist with the set-up of stage and backstage areas for performances use stage management and call reference material as required complete cues and calls in a clear and concise manner monitor performances and respond to variations as required manage competing tasks within time constraints during performances work collaboratively with production team members and teams.
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: purpose of documentation used for stage managing and calling productions or events key factors involved in the effective calling of performances communication techniques used to provide prompts and cues to performers and crew during rehearsals and performances etiquette and protocols for dealing with others including talent in a production context industry standard technology used when stage managing performances that includes LED technology, timecode and Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) industry standard technology used to automate aspects of performances plotting sessions, including: o set changes o walking in place of performers o various production areas and safety best practices for those areas o set up of front of house materials, such as consumable props and personal props role of stage management personnel in the following areas: o audio o costume o lighting o production management o stage management o staging o vision systems issues and challenges that can arise when assisting with the stage management and calling of performances and actions taken in response, suitable to own level of responsibility.
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: calling material public performances performance venues with facilities for cast and crew. Assessors of this unit must satisfy the requirements for assessors in applicable vocational education 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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