Collaborative Project

Calendar

• March 10: SUMMATIVE DUE: CP Research V-log (BC)

• March 28: IB COMPONENT DEADLINE: CP Performances (schedule is linked here)

• April 12: SUMMATIVE DUE: CP Outline & Process Packet (BC)

• April 28: SUMMATIVE DUE: CP Draft Paper (EOC) (10 pgs/4,000 words with in-text citations and works cited)

• May 5: IB COMPONENT DEADLINE: CP Final Paper (BC) (10 pgs/4,000 words with in-text citations, cover page, table of contents, and works cited) 

BC= Before Class

DC= During Class

EOC= End of Class

Formal Requirements

Each student submits the following for assessment.

1. A completed cover sheet.

2. A project report (a maximum of 10 pages of written text and images*) plus a list of all sources used.

3. A video recording of the final piece (7–10 minutes maximum).

*To help define the scope of this portfolio document, the written text contained within the project report must not exceed an indicative maximum of 4,000 words. It is not expected that the submitted work will reach this upper limit and students should by no means feel under pressure to meet it.

Task details

Students should approach this collaborative task from the multiple perspectives of creator, director, designer and/or performer.

Collaborative creation

Working as an ensemble of 2–6 individuals from the theatre class, students create and perform a piece of original theatre that is developed from a starting point. The overall intentions, structure and content of the piece must be collaboratively decided and devised by the ensemble. 

Each member of the ensemble is required to perform in the final piece and will be assessed on the use of their performance skills. Each member of the ensemble is also required to individually contribute to the development and staging of the piece as creator, designer and/or director and will be assessed on how effective these specific artistic contributions were in achieving the ensemble's intentions. As such, the ensemble should be sure to create theatrical material which will allow for the assessment of each individual ensemble member’s performance skills and specific individual artistic contributions as creator, designer and/or director.

The collaboratively created original piece of theatre (lasting 7–10 minutes) must be presented to an audience as a fully-realized production.

Theatre-maker intentions

Students are required to collaboratively formulate intentions for the piece of theatre (200 words maximum). These must be agreed by the ensemble and should include the following:

• the chosen starting point

• what the piece will address or explore

• the target audience for the piece

• the performance space and the positioning of the audience

• the effect the ensemble aims to have on their target audience.

Starting Point

The starting point provides the inspiration for the collaborative creation of the piece of theatre. It gives a focus to the initial stages of practical exploration. For this assessment task, the starting point must be one of the following:

• 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 (place/location)

• a piece of street art, a graphic novel or a comic strip.

Structuring the work

Each student in the ensemble is required to submit a cover sheet, an individual project report and a video recording of the full performance for this task, the details of which are as follows.

Cover sheet

A cover sheet is provided by the IB for this task and a completed cover sheet must be submitted for each student as part of the upload of assessment materials. Failure to submit the cover sheet will result in thework not being marked. The cover sheet records the following information for this task.

• How the student can be identified in the video recording (including a screenshot of the student).

• The ensemble’s chosen starting point for the piece.

• The collaboratively written theatre-maker intentions.

• The page count of the submitted report. All text images, annotations, labels and citations must be included in the overall page count.

• The length of the submitted video recording.

• The specific beginning and ending time codes which direct the examiner to the student’s two chosen moments in the submitted video recording.

Project report

The project report (10 pages of written text and images, with written text not exceeding 4,000 words maximum) is a written account of the individual student’s involvement in the collaborative project. The project report should demonstrate the student’s ability to reflect upon and evaluate the collaborative creation of the theatre piece.

Students will need to be carefully guided in their selection of the two moments from the video recording. They must ensure that the two moments they select will provide sufficient evidence of their performance skills and their individual artistic contributions respectively, as well as meeting the requirements of the task and providing sufficient opportunities for them to address the assessment criteria.

The list of sources used is excluded from the page count.

The project report is assessed on screen and students must ensure that their work is clear and legible when presented in a digital, on-screen format. The work should be created using a common page size (A4 or USLetter), be typed in a legible sans serif 12-point font and  use standard margin sizes and single spacing. The project report may also contain legible handwriting. Each student should adhere to the following structure in the project report. Please note: the structure of the project report does not necessarily follow the chronological process followed by the ensemble during the collaborative creation of the final piece and should not dictate the process.