| Effective Term: | 2025/20 |
| Institute / School : | Institute of Education, Arts & Community |
| Unit Title: | Foundation Skills Acting Studio 2 |
| Unit ID: | CPPSA1002 |
| Credit Points: | 15.00 |
| Prerequisite(s): | (CPPSA1001 and CPPSD1001 and CPPSV1001) |
| Co-requisite(s): | (CPPSD1002 and CPPSV1002) |
| Exclusion(s): | Nil |
| ASCED: | 100103 |
| Other Change: | |
| Brief description of the Unit |
This unit builds on the foundation of practice developed in Studio 1. It is divided into two strands: Acting and Music Theatre/Theatre Practice.
Acting: Building on foundational skills begun in Semester 1, this unit will focus on translating and applying these skills to the written text. Students will learn a variety of strategies for approaching written texts, beginning with a fundamental grounding in text analysis: how a text may be examined and mined for relevant information; how this information can be ordered and translated into rehearsal strategies, and how it may be used in developing performance.
Theatre Practice: Music Theatre/Theatre Practice is the component of the unit where students explore, in a practice-based way, how acting processes evolve into performance. Students will participate in performance projects that culminate in small studio-based showings of work. |
| Grade Scheme: | Graded (HD, D, C, P, MF, F, XF) |
| Work Experience Indicator: |
| No work experience |
| Placement Component: | |
| Supplementary Assessment:Yes |
| 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: |
| Knowledge: |
| K1. | Identify elements of the actor's approach to text. |
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| K2. | Examine processes involved in preparing a text for rehearsal. |
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| K3. | Explore 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. | Understand how rehearsals evolve into performance. |
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| K6. | Explore a sense of self and authenticity in the work. |
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| Skills: |
| S1. | Compile an annotated script. |
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| S2. | Practice taking creative risks and initiating a sense of self and authenticity in the work. |
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| S3. | Illustrate basic strategies for rehearsing scenes. |
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| S4. | Show a relationship between text and the use of space in rehearsal and performance. |
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| S5. | Rehearse and perform effectively as an ensemble member. |
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| Application of knowledge and skills: |
| A1. | Demonstrate rehearsal strategies based on extracting information from a script, using given circumstance, action/objective, character, and the effective communication of themes and ideas. |
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| A2. | Show a capacity to evolve previous work practices into a coherent rehearsal methodology. |
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| A3. | Transform rehearsal activities into communicable performance outcomes. |
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| A4. | Produce examples of text analysis. |
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| A5. | Communicate an authentic personal response to the work through discussion and practice. |
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| Unit Content: |
Acting: Students will examine concepts such as Given Circumstance, Action/Objective, Character and apply these concepts to dramatic texts during studio-based practice. They will develop personal rehearsal strategies, create authentic connection to text-based characters and investigate how improvisation may be used to evolve performance. Scene-work will become the focus of in-class studio-based learning.
Music Theatre/Theatre Practice: In Music Theatre/Theatre Practice students consolidate acting skills through a focus on small text-based studio performances. Undertaking the journey of rehearsals enables students to develop coherent and incremental acting strategies as they apply to text-based scripts.
Topics may include:
• Improvisation in text-based rehearsals
• Analysis of dramatic and musical text
• Given Circumstance
• Actions and Objectives
• Building a Character
• Scenic Elements
• Rehearsal Strategies |
| Graduate Attributes: |
| | Learning Outcomes Assessed | Assessment Tasks | Assessment Type | Weighting | | 1. | K1, K2, K3, K4, K5, K6, S2, S3, S5, A3, A5 | Participation and engagement in studio practice of Acting and Theatre Practice. | Demonstration of continuous learning in class, showing evidence of growing application of skills and knowledge through embodied participation and technique and skill presentations. | 40-50% | | 2. | K5, K6, S2, S4, A1, A2, A5 | Work in progress is to be presented which demonstrates critical reflection and interpretation of information through physical and vocal expression. | In-house studio performances. | 30-40% | | 3. | S1, A4 | Ongoing critical reflection and written responses to learning experiences throughout the semester. | Acting workbook and Reflective Journal | 20-30% |
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