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Production Exercise - MEFT2307
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Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
 
 
School:  School of English, Media and Performing Arts
 
 
Course Outline: See below
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisite: 36 units of credit
 
 
Excluded: MEFT3302, THST2135
 
 
Fee Band:   (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description

Practical work on a theatrical presentation within the School aimed at providing direct experience of the production process and its evaluation.

Note: Before enrolling in this course students must study the detailed course outline available from the Io Myers Studio and complete a Production Selection Form. Students should note that rehearsals will commence four weeks before the beginning of Session, and they must be available in the evenings for technical rehearsals in Week 1 of Session and for the performances in Week 2.


Learning Outcomes

  • Engage usefully in research methodologies in the rehearsal room
  • Negotiate the complex group dynamics to enable student's own and others' fruitful participation in a creative process
  • Distinguish and select appropriate performance styles and genres in relation to the project's intentions
  • Develop acute sensory awareness as a resource in performance, performance making in support of performance presence
  • Develop and place a range of registers of the spoken word
  • Begin to differentiate elements of student's own sensibility and aesthetic and find ways to draw on and express that view
  • Make informed decisions about matters of design as it relates to a particular concept
  • Manage the time constraints of a given rehearsal period, making decisions according to available time parameters; adjusting to pragmatics of the given circumstances in relation to the concept; and the economies in which the given aesthetics operate
  • Differentiate supposedly 'personal' aspects of the creative process and the 'use' that can be made of the 'self'
  • Make specific observations within a range of discourses through the development of a strong critical language (see handout on analysis)
  • Demonstrate an active relationship with the various thematic and practical issues arising from the previous coursework experience brought to the project.

Assessment

  • Participation - 50%
  • Logbook - 10%
  • Reflective analysis (2000-2500 words) - 40%

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