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The Collaborative Project
You will create an original piece of theatre with a group (minimum of two persons, maximum of 6 persons per group). You can choose a professional company who create original work here.
The piece will be 13-15 minutes in length. You will use one of the following as your starting point:
An Event
An Idea, issue, question or theme
An Image or photograph
A Non-dramatic text
An Object
A Person
A Piece of music
A Site
Street art, graphic novel or a comic strip
As a group you must create a clear artistic intention and highlight how your piece will impact the audience.
Assessment
There are 2 parts to the assessment.
1. You will submit a process portfolio, which is a maximum of 15 pages. This documents your own approaches and skills in detail. It should have a table of contents and numbered pages.
2. The second part of the assessment is the submission of a video, which can be a continuous 4 minutes long, OR an edited version containing no more than two key moments. It should be of the final performance, but can start from any point. The video will be used to see if you have achieved what you said you have, along with proving the skills you have learnt.
Process Portfolio:
15 pages max.
You can include diagrams, photos, etc.
Your Portfolio will be produced on a computer as it will be handed in digitally. The page size is A4.
It will contain headed sections exactly as they are written below.
A Front cover
Name, Title, Candidate number.
A content Page
With numbered pages (excluding the content page)
My personal context and my research into a professional company that creates and stages original pieces of theatre
Identify your own personal skills and understanding of theatre and the impact this has on your work. Clearly explain what your interests are, what shows you have seen/been involved in, your influences and inspirations and how these have affected your choices, decision making and how your skills and experiences impact your work. What are your strengths and weaknesses? This includes taking into consideration your own geographical location, cultural background, skills and experiences and how these impact the sort of theatre that you create and present.
You will look at a professional company that creates and stages original pieces of theatre. You will consider their creative approaches (how they produce work) and how this could be used to influence your own approach to the collaboration project. Discuss this in detail.
The formation of my group and our exploration of the starting point (including our target audience and intentions for the piece)
Explain the process of forming the collaborative group. You need to clearly and effectively reflect upon the challenges and benefits of collaboration. Did the group have a wide experience of different styles and genres within theatre, i.e. Physical Theatre?
Explain how and why your group arrived at your starting point, making sure you include significant information on your target audience and your intentions for the piece. So, you need to fully outline your dramatic intentions for the performance, what did you want to achieve? Was it to create a performance that would reflect a school project, such as ‘Book Week’? Did it need to have clear links with specific points from the National Curriculum for a specific age range? Did it need to foster links between Primary and Secondary Schools?
Reflections on the collaborative development of our piece and the specific explorations led by me
Explain how the group practically developed, structured and prepared the original piece for presentation, clearly identifying your own contribution to this process. So, clearly explain what the intentions of the scene/play was. Was it to encourage the audience to become actively engaged within the performance as you wanted them to comment, create and have ownership of the creative process? How was this achieved? Was it through direct address to the audience through the use of a narrator?
Reflect on the feedback that the teacher made with regards to your mock presentation/ dress rehearsal (and it can only be for the dress rehearsal as your performance must be student led) and how that feedback helped develop the final piece. This might lead directly into the next point below regarding your contribution, i.e. how you thought the group would amended the piece after feedback.
Provide insightful reflections on the specific artistic explorations that YOU led with the group and explain how this contribution helped shape the final production. For example, why did you suggest creating a role of a, i.e., narrator? Was it as a linking device? How did you explore the role of the narrator? Did they need to be bold, physical and comedic? Did you need to carefully craft a script which reflected the language acquisition skills of the target audience? Did the narrator have to interact with characters based upon characters inspired from Commedia dell'arte and, therefore, had to reflect some of their characteristics?
My contribution to the final presentation, the impact on the audience and my artistic choices (as seen in the video)
Provide a clear, effective and sophisticated evaluation of the presentation of the original piece, explaining how the piece fulfilled its dramatic intentions and the extent to which it achieved its impact on the audience. For example reflect upon a survey you created and sent out to audience members and their reaction on the day. Refer to questioning the audience (on the day or through a survey) as a talkback session which you used to gauge the impact the piece and how your performance fulfilled your dramatic intentions. In the reflections, don't be overly negative, but simply ask yourself, if you were to do it again, what would you change?
Explain your own specific artistic choices as evidenced in the video recording that you have selected. Why did you chose to present your character in the manner that you did?
Bibliography:
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