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This unit describes the skills and knowledge required by singers and actors to control their voice and maintain vocal clarity, articulation, and expression at an advanced level in performances. The unit applies to those who are performers and who require the skills to maintain vocal strength and expression in a range of performance contexts. While supervision is provided in practice sessions and rehearsals, performers are expected to use initiative and sound judgment. At this level, performers are expected to demonstrate a high level of responsibility for themselves and others during live performances. 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
| Joondalup | Mount Lawley | South West (Bunbury) | |
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| Vet Full | Not Offered | 23 x 2 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: demonstrate vocal techniques in at least three different performances. In the course of the above, the candidate must: develop and implement a plan for refining own performance technique incorporate anatomy and physiology into vocal exercise routines demonstrate non-verbal communication techniques in relation to written or spoken text perform vocal exercises using required posture and breathing techniques improvise performance aspects follow safe vocal practices demonstrate practice routine that incorporates vocal warm-ups and warm-downs respond constructively to feedback and evaluation.
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: vocal expressions used in different text styles and performance circumstances cultural protocols within performance texts relationship between body movement and voice tools and techniques used to analyse performances, respond to feedback and improve own technique non-verbal communication and body language concepts issues and challenges that arise when preparing for performances and solutions to address them physical problems that may affect voice and strategies for addressing them and methods to care for own voice components of human physiology and anatomy functions when producing sound, in relation to refining the use of: articulators chest, mouth, and face muscles heart lips lungs larynx tongue trachea windpipe physiology and anatomy of human voice relevant to voice range and scope, and vocal techniques vocal and speech exercise methodologies.
Assessment must be in the form of: direct observation of the candidate in performance, on at least three occasions direct questioning combined with rehearsal third-party workplace reports of on-the-job performance (this can include reports from guest/visiting artists/directors) Both practical skills and knowledge must be assessed. Simulated assessment environments must simulate the real-life performance environment with access to all the relevant venues, equipment and resources of those performance environments. Assessment must be conducted in conditions that are safe and replicate the workplace. Noise levels, production flow, interruptions and time variances must be typical of those experienced in a performance environment. Assessment must ensure access to: a venue with space for solo or ensemble performances other performers. No specialist vocational competency requirements for Assessors apply to this unit. Assessor Requirements No specialist vocational competency requirements for Assessors apply to this unit.
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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