| Effective Term: | 2024/05 |
| Institute / School : | Institute of Education, Arts & Community |
| Unit Title: | Acting Project 2 |
| Unit ID: | CPPRO2102 |
| Credit Points: | 15.00 |
| Prerequisite(s): | (CPPRO2101 and CPPSD2003 and CPPSV2003) |
| Co-requisite(s): | (CPPSD2004 and CPPSV2004) |
| Exclusion(s): | (CPPRO2001 and PAATA2004) |
| ASCED: | 100103 |
| Other Change: | |
| Brief description of the Unit |
| This intermediate unit is designed to prepare students for rehearsing and performing spoken and sung text. Students will learn a variety of strategies for working with selected written texts, beginning with a fundamental grounding in text analysis: how a text may be examined for relevant information; how this information can be ordered and translated into rehearsal strategies, and how it may be used in performance. Through practice, students will investigate the stylistic tenets of Naturalism. They will acquire a working vocabulary of terms appropriate to the form. They will develop personal rehearsal techniques designed to assist them in evolving text-based scene-work. These techniques will be developed and applied within the context of performance. It is expected that students integrate knowledge, skills and values gained in other studio classes into these performances where and as required. |
| Grade Scheme: | Graded (HD, D, C, P, MF, F, XF) |
| Work Experience Indicator: |
| No work experience |
| Placement Component: No |
| Supplementary Assessment: |
| Where supplementary assessment is available a student must have failed overall in the Unit but gained a final mark of 45 per cent or above, has completed all major assessment tasks (including all sub-components where a task has multiple parts) as specified in the Unit Description and is not eligible for any other form of supplementary assessment |
| Course Level: |
| Level of Unit in Course | AQF Level(s) of Course | | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | | Introductory | | | | | | | | Intermediate | | |  | | | | | Advanced | | | | | | |
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| Learning Outcomes: |
| On successful completion of the course the students are expected to be able to: |
| Knowledge: |
| K1. | Identify elements of the actor’s approach to text. |
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| K2. | Outline processes involved in preparing a text for rehearsal. |
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| K3. | Identify the link between improvisation and text-based material. |
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| K4. | Define collaborative dimensions of the rehearsal process. |
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| K5. | Make distinctions between rehearsal and performance. |
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| Skills: |
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| S2. | Compile an annotated script. |
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| S3. | Demonstrate a rehearsal methodology based on the extraction of information from a script, which includes given circumstance, action/objective, character, and thematic construction. |
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| S4. | Show a relationship between text and the use of space in rehearsal and performance. |
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| S5. | Illustrate basic strategies for rehearsing scenes. |
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| S6. | Demonstrate consistency during performance. |
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| S7. | Practice taking creative risks. |
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| Application of knowledge and skills: |
| A1. | Interpret the principles of acting processes. |
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| A2. | Produce examples of text analysis. |
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| A3. | Formulate body and mind practice during rehearsal and performance. |
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| A4. | Transform rehearsal activities into communicable performance outcomes. |
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| Unit Content: |
•The unit has been designed to augment work being undertaken in Studio 3. Content may be drawn from a broad range of styles and genres of material: dramatic, operatic and music theatre. Material studied in class may also be composed of, be the subject of, and be augmented by, screen oriented work.
•The work of Konstantin Stanislavski and his legacy;
•Text analysis;
•Beats/units;
•Given circumstance;
•Action\objective;
•Approaches to character;
•Transposing text into spatially embodied performance;
•Rehearsal processes;
•Collaborating with fellow performers;
•Working with directors;
•Developing and sustaining clear and coherent performance. |
| Graduate Attributes: |
| | Learning Outcomes Assessed | Assessment Tasks | Assessment Type | Weighting | | 1. | K1, K2, K3, K4, S1, S2, S3, S7, A1, A3 | Participation in ongoing class work and rehearsals | Ongoing presentation of prepared scenes | 30-50% | | 2. | K5, S4, S5, S6, S7, A2, A3, A4 | Scene showings performance | In-house and public performance | 30-50% | | 3. | A1, A2, S5, K1, K2, K4 | Written reflection | Written Assignment/Workbook/ Essay | 10-40% |
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