Module:  TDP6004-20  Production Project 2

Credit Value: 20

Module Tutor: Christopher Britton

Module Tutor Contact Details: c.britton@bathspa.ac.uk

1. Brief description and aims of module

This module engages you in the production of a professional standard performance as a designer, technician or manager. The production environment can be live or mediated and it tests your ability to work collaboratively by connecting the work you do as a designer, technician, or manager with the work of actors, dancers, musicians and other production elements. Within this collaborative project you are expected to meet industry-standard expectations and work within professionally recognised timeframes. We recognise that repeating the processes embedded in this module, across different venues and projects, develops your agility as a designer, technician or manager of productions and prepares you for entry into industry.

This module aims to:

• Provide a professional working environment appropriate for a live or mediated production

• 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 a production as any staged performance of a script, be it with or without musical content, or filmed performance of a complete work (such as a sit com, short film or teleplay), or a dance performance. Professional directors or facilitators lead the projects, reflecting industry practice.

Over the course of the module students rehearse and perform the production with a professional director. Concurrently, design, technical and management teams prepare for the manufacture, installation and running of the production. This encompasses the visual and auditory landscape of the production. The process relies entirely on collaboration, with each group of students depending upon their interaction with other practitioners to produce a high-quality product.

Each student group engages in the project at different stages of the process. To name each would be both limiting and repetitive, but in broad terms pre-production involves the design, management, and technical teams - composers might also join the team. Rehearsal and production stages connect the production team with the actors.

3. Teaching and learning activities

This module mirrors professional rehearsal, production and performance processes. The format of delivery observes the union-defined working patterns. Workloads do not exceed 48 hours in any one-week and presume an overall contract of 4 weeks.

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

The summative assessment is your contribution to the finished production. Be this (although not limited to this) a realised design, a prompt copy, or technical design and execution.

Assessment Item 1:

• Assessment Type: CW

• Description: Production (1 piece)

• % Weighting: 100