Module: COM6003-20 Production Project: Making Comedic Performance

Level: 6

Credit Value: 20

Module Tutor: Pat Welsh

Module Tutor Contact Details: P.Welsh@bathspa.ac.uk

1. Brief description and aims of module:

This module asks you to produce work of a professional performance standard as an actor engaged in the process of making a new performance piece. The production environment tests your ability to work collaboratively by connecting the work you do as an actor or comedic performer to the broader market place. Within this collaborative project you are expected to meet industry-standard expectations and work within professionally recognised timeframes. 

This module aims to:

• Provide a professional working environment appropriate for making comedy performance

• Foster a positive approach to collaborative working and practice

• Advance your ability to work to an industry standard

 2.Outline syllabus

This module recognises that by working together in a professional production scenario with students from associated disciplines, you develop your underlying skills and knowledge. Concurrently, you develop a broader appreciation of your own discipline and a different aspect of industry practice.

This module defines making performance as a process to devise a new piece, or a process by which you generate a new production of an extant work. For example, an actor musician project where work is devised; a company project where the company work to a brief to create a new piece; or a festival project where you aim to create a piece of market-ready work. In each instance, it is critical that your work considers the viability of taking the work to market.

Over the course of the module, you generate and rehearse the performance. Professional practitioners support your work. Where appropriate, design, technical and management teams prepare for the manufacture, installation and running of the production. This encompasses the visual and auditory landscape. The process relies entirely on collaboration, with each group of students depending upon their interaction with other practitioners to produce a high-quality product.

3.Teaching and learning activities

This module mirrors professional production processes, but allows for the work to run over a longer period to enable periods of reflection and development. Facilitators will help the shape the work or enable you to assess the potential market of the work – as appropriate to your project.

Mirroring professional practice, you receive formative assessment feedback throughout the project. This culminates in director’s notes given in rehearsals, design and production meetings.

The summative assessment is your contribution to the finished production. Be this (although not limited to this) a script or a performance.

Assessment Item 1:

• Assessment Type: CW

• Description: Production (1 piece)

• % Weighting: 100