EA352-6-AP-SO:
Performance Projects
2024/25
East 15 Acting School
Southend Campus
Autumn & Spring
Undergraduate: Level 6
Current
Thursday 03 October 2024
Friday 21 March 2025
30
08 April 2021
Requisites for this module
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BA W412 Acting and Fight Performance
The objective of the module is to give you the chance to utilise all your previous training: acting, movement, voice, fighting, costume work and contextual studies, in performances. The work is practice-based and the majority of sessions will be in rehearsals.
As in the Foundation degree, assessment will be based on the processes of performance preparation in class, rehearsal and research but in this final year module considerable emphasis is placed also on the quality of the performances themselves.
There will be two performance projects aimed at introducing you to a further level of professional standards. In each production, you will work with a director, on a chosen text, to bring the world of the play to life. The play chosen will have scope for you to call upon a variety of your skills in creating truthful characters in set, given circumstances. The unit will call upon the acting, research, and physical skills that have been developed over the three years. The unit may provide opportunities for students to experiment with techniques in preparation for their Graduation Projects.
To provide students with opportunities to:
1. Widen their experience of performing to an audience
2. Incorporate stage combat into specific productions
3. Apply learning to a range of performance forms and styles
You will be able to:
1. Communicate confidently in a performance situation
2. Perform a range of given texts with confidence
3. Sustain character and style within the demands of a technical production
4. Demonstrate understanding of the link between character and story-line in a choreographed fight sequence
5. Use their physical skills in a dramatic performance
6. Work effectively as one part of a production team
7. Take instructions from directors and use them to improve performances
8. Self-evaluate performance strengths and weaknesses
No additional information available.
Practical sessions, supervised and unsupervised rehearsals, independent research.
The above list is indicative of the essential reading for the course.
The library makes provision for all reading list items, with digital provision where possible, and these resources are shared between students.
Further reading can be obtained from this module's
reading list.
Assessment items, weightings and deadlines
| Coursework / exam |
Description |
Deadline |
Coursework weighting |
| Practical |
First Performance Project |
|
50% |
| Practical |
Second Performance Project |
|
50% |
Additional coursework information
Continual assessment during classes, rehearsal and in the final performance.
Exam format definitions
- Remote, open book: Your exam will take place remotely via an online learning platform. You may refer to any physical or electronic materials during the exam.
- In-person, open book: Your exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer to any physical materials such as paper study notes or a textbook during the exam. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, open book (restricted): The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer only to specific physical materials such as a named textbook during the exam. Permitted materials will be specified by your department. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, closed book: The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may not refer to any physical materials or electronic devices during the exam. There may be times when a paper dictionary,
for example, may be permitted in an otherwise closed book exam. Any exceptions will be specified by your department.
Your department will provide further guidance before your exams.
Overall assessment
Reassessment
Module supervisor and teaching staff
Mr Nick Hall, email: halln@essex.ac.uk.
Nick Hall, Chris Main, Visiting Directors
For further information please email halln
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No external examiner information available for this module.
Available via Moodle
No lecture recording information available for this module.
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