Assessment 1 – Portfolio (100%)
A portfolio of work comprising:
A major performance to an audience that is assessed via your individual input into the planning, creation and presentation of the finished product, demonstrating your ability to confidently integrate industry relevant creative and technical processes.
Evidence of research, planning, developmental processes, appropriate production documentation, health and safety, and reflective practice you have undertaken.
[Learning Outcomes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]

Formative Assessment:
Observation of engagement in practical development
Progress reviews and group critique sessions

In this module, the culmination of all of your education and training, you will take part in the planning and creation of a complex and extensive performance as appropriate to your industry sector. It will be a high-level creative response for an identified output and will have been designed in order to stimulate, challenge and highlight your skills and abilities.

The module will commence with a thorough exploration of the requirements for delivering a major performance which will inform a strategic plan. This plan will be an opportunity to demonstrate awareness of current commercial practice from a local, national and international perspective. It will be fully developed and include for example, timelines, roles and responsibilities, allocation of resources both human and physical and any marketing.

In line with industry practice and expectations, you will play a role in the process of developing the performance material as well as a physical performance role, this will depend on your chosen specialism. You will be expected to recall previous experience, education and training, as well as peer and lecturer feedback, consistently seeking to improve and enhance your professional, artistic and/or technical capability as would be expected within the profession itself. With lecturer support you will be encouraged to invite an audience, potentially including industry practitioners and agents to the performance of your finished production, to increase potential for future employment within your chosen sector.

At all times, you will be expected to apply professional standards reflective of an entry level practitioner into your chosen industry, demonstrating qualities consistent with those expected when working on an extensive performance.

This module will begin with an introduction to the requirements of the module and a review of the strategic direction for the extensive collaborative project. Learning will be facilitated through a range of group sessions (i.e. lectures and workshops) and individual tutorials, as follows:
• Research activities including an exploration of existing work via streaming services, DVD, internet, cable and satellite.
• Planning workshops
• Performance material reviews, ideas generation activities and repertoire planning (as applicable)
• Technical and professional skills recap activities appropriate to the genre
• Health and safety recap
• Reflective practice recap

As the module progresses, learning strategies will focus on your development as a professional and will therefore be situated in work-based practice rather than in classroom based learning. The production element of the module will be facilitated as applicable to the industry sector through activities such as:
• Creative and technical pre-production and production workshops
• Auditions and castings
• Rehearsals
• 1:1 and group tutorials
• Group critique
• Problem solving exercises
• Summative performance to audience
• Reflective practice

Seminar Room
Computer access / internet access
Rehearsal space / studios
Venue / performance space
DV Cameras
Ancillary costume, prop and set equipment
Various scripts, screenplays, music, instruments, backline equipment

Acting Texts
Berry, C (2000) The Actor and the Text: Virgin
Brook, P (2008) The Empty Space: Penguin
Perry, J. (2001) The Rehearsal Handbook for Actors and Directors: A Practical Guide: The Crowood Press

Musical Theatre Texts
Cramer, L. (2013) Creating Musical Theatre: Methuen Drama
Henshall, R, (2012) So you want to be in Musicals?: Nick Hern Books
White, M.(1999) Staging a Musical: A&C Black

Music Texts
Curran, M. (2004) Getting Gigs: The Musician’s & Singer’s Survival Guide to Booking Better Paying Jobs: NMD Books
Henderson, W. (2001) Running your Rock Band: Rehearsing, Financing, Touring, Succeeding: Schirmer Books
Singleton, M. (2008) The Art of Gigging: The Essential Guide to Starting Up as a Performing Artist: Trafford Publishing

1. MAKE USE OF A BROAD RANGE OF EXISTING SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE IN ORDER TO SUCCESSFULLY PLAN, CREATE AND PRESENT AN EXTENSIVE PERFORMANCE TO A PROFESSIONAL STANDARD. [Knowledge & Understanding; Application]

2. IDENTIFY CHALLENGES AND PRESENT SOLUTIONS WHEN PLANNING, CREATING AND PRESENTING AN EXTENSIVE PERFORMANCE FOR YOUR CHOSEN SPECIALISM. MAKE INFORMED DECISIONS THROUGHOUT THE PROCESS TO MOVE A PROJECT TOWARDS ITS INTENDED OUTCOME.
[Problem Solving]

3. CONSIDER YOUR STRENGTHS AND LIMITATIONS AND PREPARE THE GROUNDWORK FOR EXPANDING YOUR EXISTING SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE IN ORDER TO PRODUCE A HIGH-QUALITY PRODUCT.
[Reflection]

4. ARTICULATE IDEAS AND INFORMED CHOICES IN ORDER TO MAKE A MEANINGFUL CONTRIBUTION TO THE PLANNING AND PRODUCTION PROCESS RESULTING IN A HIGH QUALITY OUTCOME. DEMONSTRATE ABILITY TO DISCUSS AND DEBATE.
[Communication]

5. EXAMINE AND CRITICALLY EVALUATE THE COMPLEX REQUIREMENTS OF PLANNING AND CREATING AN EXTENSIVE PERFORMANCE FOR YOUR CHOSEN SPECIALISM AND INDUSTRY IN ORDER THAT THE FINAL FILM OR PROGRAMME COMES ACROSS PROPERLY ON SCREEN.
[Enquiry; Analysis]

6. MAKE A MEANINGFUL AND RESPONSIVE CONTRIBUTION TO A TEAM IN THE PLANNING, CREATION AND PRESENTATION OF AN EXTENSIVE PERFORMANCE. PRESENT IN A PROFESSIONAL MANNER APPROPRIATE TO ENTERING YOUR CHOSEN INDUSTRY.
[Working with Others]