Module: ACT5024-20 Meditated Performance

Level: 5

Credit Value: 20

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1. Brief description and aims of module:

This module focuses on acting on camera and enabling you to control your own self-promotion through filmed content. The module aims are to:

• Explore how the acting process works on film

• Foster strategies for creating and sustaining individual projects and/or collaborative scenarios when working on filmed projects 

• Develop your technical skills and understanding in terms of capturing, editing and sharing filmed material.

2.Outline syllabus

The practical sessions in this module build on the work of acting classes to introduce you to the specific skills required to address the technical demands of camera work, including continuity, eye-line, finding your mark and performance size to shot size. They will introduce you to the key crew roles as well as on-set vocabulary and etiquette. These industry-aware camera skills prepare you for the Showreel module at level 6.

In tandem with this, and with module ACT5023-20, you will explore the nature of research, how it enriches and informs your acting process and enables deeper reflective and critical thinking. 

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 self-directed filming projects, but also develop your research skills through seminar classes.

Assessment Item 1:

• Assessment Type: Coursework

• Description: Filmed Scene

• % Weighting: 60%

Assessment Item 2:

• Assessment Type: Coursework

• Description: Research Portfolio (2000 words)

• % Weighting: 40%