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Performance Making - MEFT3354
Media, Film and Theatre

 
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: 72 units of credit; Excluded: PFST2149
 
 
Equivalent: PFST2149
 
 
Fee Band: 1 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description

Explores performer/artist-generated and community-orientated work, covering the making of performance works that neither derive from a traditional dramatist script, nor have the creation of a play as their end product. Combines a practical project with critical and theoretical inquiry.


Learning Outcomes

By the end of this course, students should be able to:
  • Demonstrate that they can define and create a live performance 'action'
  • Synthesise material from the readings, viewings, discussions in class, and the strategies and methodologies offered, into their performance work
  • Demonstrate an awareness of their personal performance language and aesthetic
  • Confidently take risks in the devising of new performance forms
  • Develop an effective language for giving feedback to their colleagues, and the ability to receive it themselves
  • Respond reflectively to their and others' work in written analytical form
  • Draw on a 'body of work' that they have built throughout the course
  • Operate generously within a 'community' of performance-makers.

Assessment

  • Weekly performance presentations - 30%
  • Critiques - 10%
  • Draft proposal - 10%
  • Final performance - 30%
  • Reflective analysis - 20%

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