KRB112 Stage Management 2

Unit Outline: Semester 2 2024, Kelvin Grove, Internal

Overview

This unit builds upon Stage Management 1 by extending and broadening your understanding of the role of the stage manager and how it is applied in different performance contexts (dance, contemporary music, opera, orchestra, musical theatre, events). It provides an introduction into management issues in areas of stage mechanics, flying, props and wardrobe, and prepares you to undertake performance crew roles in these departments. This unit prepares you to undertake advanced responsibilities in management roles on creative productions.

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:

1. Demonstrate an understanding of the role and function of Stage Management across multiple performance contexts (dance, drama, musical theatre, opera, music).
2. Apply aspects of the production process from multiple management perspectives across specific genres of performance.
3. Apply specialised Stage Management skills across individual genres of performance.

Content

Learning Approaches

This unit is delivered through a series of workshops, supplemented with online content.

Feedback on Learning and Assessment

You will receive formative feedback on your progress in this unit during workshops and discussions throughout the semester. Weight: 0%

Assessment

Overview

Faculty Assessment Information

To access complete Faculty Assessment Information please refer to the Canvas site for this unit.

Unit Grading Scheme

7- point scale

Assessment Tasks

Assessment: Project

Students will generate documentation specific to the Stage Manager's role in the dance and contemporary theatre production process.

This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.

Assessment: Problem Solving Task

Students will complete a series of problem solving tasks specific to the generation of stage management documentation relating to musical theatre, dance and orchestral performance.

This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.

Assessment: Examination (Written)

A written examination covering Stage Management roles and responsibilities, terminology and the production processes across a variety of live performance contexts.

Academic Integrity

Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.

Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.

You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.

Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.

Requirements to Study

Requirements

All students and staff who access campus buildings and facilities are required to complete the Tier 1 General Health and Safety Induction. This must be completed online.

Resources

Risk Assessment Statement

For risks associated with using campus buildings or facilities, refer to the Tier 1 General Health and Safety Induction.

Theatres are potentially dangerous places, particularly backstage during performances when low light conditions prevail. You will be warned by the stage manager, the production manager or the director of any specific risks that you will need to be aware of, when your project team first moves in to the theatre. If you are aware of personal physical or emotional vulnerabilities you should inform teaching staff if you are feeling unsafe or at risk in any way. Every effort is made by staff at QUT to ensure that theatre students work in a safe environment. Conversely you are expected to follow all safety rules and directions, and to ensure that they do not put at risk the safety of others in any way.

Course Learning Outcomes

KK34 Bachelor of Fine Arts

1. Cite and discuss a broad and coherent knowledge of historical and contemporary cultural contexts for creative practice, including the contribution of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledges.
   Relates to: ULO1
2. Identify and demonstrate knowledge of the techniques and concepts underpinning your field of creative practice.
   Relates to: ULO1
3. Demonstrate complex problem solving through iterative experimentation and the creative and critical development of ideas and outcomes.
   Relates to: ULO2, ULO3
4. Demonstrate technical proficiency in at least one area of your field of creative practice.
   Relates to: ULO1, ULO3
5. Discern, critically analyse and synthesise knowledge in complex creative practice settings.
   Relates to: ULO2
6. Formulate and apply an independent perspective through reflection and by acting on the informed critique of others.
   Relates to: ULO3