Year 3 Acting

YEAR THREE ACTING

Outline

You develop skills in acting for camera and consolidate your acting and voice and speech training.

Overall Aims

To enable you to consolidate your ability at a professional level to: • perform as an actor in a variety of performance situations, including musicals, plays and television drama with confidence, concentration, discipline, energy and technical control

What will I be expected to achieve in this module?

At the conclusion of the acting module you will be expected to demonstrate a professional level of ability to: Skills • use imagination, concentration and observation in performance • perform with belief, energy and focus • act with confidence in a range of styles and techniques Knowledge and Understanding • speak and understand a variety of theatrical texts • work confidently with the techniques and terminology of professional theatre Values and Attitudes • work in an effective and disciplined way as a member in performance

Acting for Camera

Tutor Mark Street Tutor led Hours (class) 3 x 20 = 60

Aims

To enable you to apply to performance a professional level of: • studio etiquette, camera craft, health and safety awareness, script and character analysis • practical understanding of the integration of actor training with the specific demands of Film/Television • analysis, observation, imagination, personal and collaborative creativity • appropriate application of vocal and physical skills to Film/Television format

What will I be expected to achieve?

On successful completion of the component you should be able to demonstrate a professional level of competence in: Skills • vocal and physical technique • the use of imagination, concentration, creativity and observation in professional Film/Television contexts

Knowledge and Understanding • the use of analysis and research in the creation of believable characters • The specific working practices/expectations of the Film/Television environment.

How will I learn?

You will take part in a sequence of workshop classes reflecting the working conditions of a professional studio environment and developing the acting technique needed to work in the Film/Television industry. These will incorporate a variety of teaching and learning techniques including: theatre games; group and solo improvisation; recorded scenes for camera; seminars; student presentations; tutorials; industry role play.

Speech & Voice

Tutors Tutor hours Caitlin Stegmoller 50

Aims

• To develop your ability to work with a range of theatre texts. • To review accents in a range of theatre texts. • To prepare you for acting auditions.

What will I be expected to achieve?

On successful completion of the component, you will be expected to: Skills • approach a range of texts from classical to musical theatre • apply successful voice and text work in preparation for auditions • use your voice successfully in a range of performance contexts • sustain any of the dialects used to a professional standard

How will I learn?

The regular weekly voice class includes the following areas of work: • extension of text work from classical to contemporary • regular review of voice and speech skills • text and accent preparation for in-house musical theatre acting auditions • text and accent preparation for sight read audition scenes Coaching for productions/showcase includes the following areas of work: • Textual analysis, accent development and voice into performance skills.

Fitness Health and Safety

Acting

You are instructed on all aspects of theatre discipline, health and safety and best practice. This is reinforced in the performance year both in class and in rehearsal.

Voice

You are given instruction on how to use your voice safely in public performances. Emphasis is placed on the individual’s responsibility for the voice, its development and care.

What will I be expected to achieve?

Skills, Knowledge and Understanding At the conclusion of the Acting Module you should understand, to a level required by the professional theatre, how to: • prepare and execute suitable warm-up exercises in order to protect the body and the voice • be aware of other performers on stage – mass exits, discipline & control of actions • be aware of the dangers of unrehearsed action • have respect for other performers – confidentiality, personal hygiene, kissing, spitting • be aware of self – misuse of drugs and alcohol • take care of the voice – shouting, stage whisper • move in period costume – skirt and train management, heels • manage props safely – cigarettes, liquids, knives, firearms • be aware of hazards – fire, stage machinery, blood spillage • clean masks before and after use • maintain the condition of the vocal mechanism • observe hygiene and safety when handling and applying make-up • maintain safety for yourself, for other performers, stage management and audience in all staged encounters and to maintain distance and adjust where necessary for safety

TEACHING PATTERN

Teaching Component Type Contact Hours Self Directed Study Hours

Total Student Learning Hours Acting for Camera Workshop classes 60 20 80 Speech and Voice Technique classes 50 20 70

Total 110 40 150

How will I be assessed?

You will be assessed on your classwork in the Autumn and Spring terms. Classes will continue in term 3, but will not be included in the assessment scheme.

ASSESSMENT PATTERN

Assessment Component Acting for Camera Speech and Voice

Assessment Type Classwork Classwork

Weighting

Pass Mark Pass/Fail 70% 40% No 30% 40% No

What do I have to do to pass?

You are required to pass both components. The overall mark for the module is calculated as an average of the marks for Dance, Singing and Acting. The Year 3 Skills module carries a weighting of 20% of your overall degree mark.

How and when will I get feedback?

You will receive verbal and written feedback on your achievement in acting for each of the public productions.

REQUIRED READING

Title Author Publisher Year

The Year of the King The Second Circle Anthony Sher Nick Hern

2004 Patsy Rodenburg W. Norton & Co 2008

Film and Television Acting

Ian Bernard Focal Press 1998 Action! Robert Benedetti Longman 2006 An Actor’s Guide to Getting Work Simon Dunmore A&C Black 1991