Module: ACT5022-20 The Actor's Portfolio Career

Level: 5

Credit Value: 20

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1. Brief description and aims of module:

This 4-week module draws together the elements explored since the start of the semester by examining the skills and knowledge required to develop your portfolio career as an actor. The module aims to:

• Facilitate an understanding of current professional and industry specific requirements for employment.

• Introduce self-awareness and promotion of your unique creative strengths and abilities for future employment and/or postgraduate study.

• Focus your preparation for industry-level employment.

2.Outline syllabus

This module introduces you to an essential toolkit for employment by asking you to consider what skills and knowledge you require to successfully manage a freelance career. Focal points will include, but not be restricted to, personal finance, time management, scheduling and professional profile building. By exploring the range of employment models and work streams open to actors, the module introduces you to areas of work orbital to the traditional routes of acting on screen or stage: for example presenting, voice-over work, workshops, or motion capture. Simultaneously, the module continues to explore the building and maintenance of an actor’s skills set through such things as actor’s profiles and self-management.

There is therefore an arc across the whole semester in preparation for semester 2. By the end of semester 1 you will have considered how to improve and develop your core practice as an actor; you will have extended your interpretation of extant texts into the realms of originating work; and have considered the broader application of your skills to work beyond even these confines. Therefore, as you enter semester 2, you will be ready to run these different career tracks in tandem.

As part of this module you will develop key employability skills in a range of areas that interest you and that you wish to consider further, this will support you with graduate transition into work or further study. You will be reflecting on these skills in planning your future career direction

3.Teaching and learning activities

In all your second year modules, you will be taught across a series of discipline classes that underpin your development as an actor. These classes include (but are not exclusive to) Acting, Context, Improvisation, Movement, Singing, Voice, stage combat etc.

For this module you will engage with practical classes and then consider the impact of your learning through the creation of an actor’s portfolio.

Assessment Item 1:

• Assessment Type: Coursework

• Description: Actors Portfolio

• % Weighting: 100%