School: Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Directing Workshop
  • Unit Code

    PMA2003
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Alexa Meredith TAYLOR

Description

An examination and exploration of the diverse skills required of the modern director, this unit explores the technical aspects required to move a theatre production from conception to presentation. It details the research process of the director, the rehearsal process, the language of actors, and the process of implementing technical requirements in order to achieve creative vision. Students will learn how to take a creative vision and apply the practical processes necessary to bring it to performance.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must be enrolled in Y97

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded PAM2103, PAM3103

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Research and critically analyse text in order to make directorial decisions in rehearsal.
  2. Demonstrate effective leadership skills in conducting rehearsal in the role of director.
  3. Design and plan effective rehearsal tools and techniques for a specific work.

Unit Content

  1. The Director's research and preparation.
  2. A theoretical base for the exploration of style.
  3. Uniting action, beat, objective and how these pertain to the directorial process.
  4. Script analysis.
  5. Consideration of stagecraft for director's including use of space, pacing and dynamics, and other elements of staging a work and moving it from page to stage.
  6. Creative and technical use of sound, lighting and design elements in staging work.
  7. Giving clear and evocative direction to actors on vocal, physical and imaginative choices.
  8. The rehearsal process for actor and director.
  9. Leadership, communication and collaboration skills of the director.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 2Not Offered16 x 3 hour workshopNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Practical workshops, research and tutorial discussions

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
PresentationGroup presentation50%
PresentationPresentation of directing piece50%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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School: Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Directing Workshop
  • Unit Code

    PMA2003
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Alexa Meredith TAYLOR

Description

An examination and exploration of the diverse skills required of the modern director, this unit explores the technical aspects required to move a theatre production from conception to presentation. It details the research process of the director, the rehearsal process, the language of actors, and the process of implementing technical requirements in order to achieve creative vision. Students will learn how to take a creative vision and apply the practical processes necessary to bring it to performance.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must be enrolled in Y97

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded PAM2103, PAM3103

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Research and critically analyse text in order to make directorial decisions in rehearsal.
  2. Demonstrate effective leadership skills in conducting rehearsal in the role of director.
  3. Design and plan effective rehearsal tools and techniques for a specific work.

Unit Content

  1. The Director's research and preparation.
  2. A theoretical base for the exploration of style.
  3. Uniting action, beat, objective and how these pertain to the directorial process.
  4. Script analysis.
  5. Consideration of stagecraft for director's including use of space, pacing and dynamics, and other elements of staging a work and moving it from page to stage.
  6. Creative and technical use of sound, lighting and design elements in staging work.
  7. Giving clear and evocative direction to actors on vocal, physical and imaginative choices.
  8. The rehearsal process for actor and director.
  9. Leadership, communication and collaboration skills of the director.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 2Not Offered16 x 3 hour workshopNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Practical workshops, research and tutorial discussions

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
PresentationGroup presentation50%
PresentationPresentation of directing piece50%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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