KSB320 Professionalism, Entrepreneurship and the Creative Actor
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| Unit code: | KSB320 |
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| Prerequisite(s): | KSB310 |
| Equivalent(s): | KSB302 |
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
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| CSP student contribution | $1,192 |
| Pre-2021 CSP student contribution | $1,020 The pre-2021 commonwealth supported place (CSP) contribution amount only applies to students enrolled in a course prior to 2021. To learn more, visit our Understanding your fees page. |
| Domestic tuition unit fee | $4,704 |
| International unit fee | $4,944 |
Unit Outline: Semester 2 2026, Kelvin Grove, Internal
| Unit code: | KSB320 |
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| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | KSB310 |
| Equivalent: | KSB302 |
Overview
This advanced unit provides opportunities to apply your knowledge, skills and understanding to the creation of screen-based works for distribution in traditional and/or digital streaming contexts. These screen-based works will offer a platform to demonstrate the technical sophistication, screen presence, originality, and professionalism you will be seeking to promote to agents, casting directors, producers, and others in your networks as you enter the industry.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Display proficiency and purposeful synthesis of the textual, dramaturgical, psycho-physical and behavioural languages appropriate to contemporary screen acting.
- Demonstrate artistic and ethical judgement, professionalism and a capacity to solve complex problems independently and entrepreneurially in your creative practice, informed by principles of collaborative leadership and an understanding of industry protocols and standards.
- Synthesise advanced technical and/or digital skills, creative expertise and expert theoretical knowledge in the production, presentation and promotion of your acting practice in live or screen-based settings.
- Apply an informed understanding of personal skills and capabilities to opportunities for engaging in professional practice, networking and further learning while exercising integrity, ethical judgement and respect for social and cultural differences.
Content
This unit provide the opportunity to apply the full spectrum of your skills to a screen production experience, producing short films. This is a critical capability for the actor in the contemporary creative industries landscape, as they seek to promote themselves to actors’ agents, casting directors, producers, and a broad network of fellow creative industries professionals, as well as to a range of audiences.
Learning Approaches
In this unit you will engage in a series of practical exercises for camera. Your learning will be enriched by instruction, coaching, and feedback from the teaching team, as you work professionally with fellow actors and film crew complemented by technical support, including completing independent practical film-based assignments.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Throughout the progress of workshops teaching staff will provide feedback to you which will inform all assessments items. Feedback in this unit is provided to you in the following ways:
- comments on summative assessment work in addition to criteria sheets, both for group work and individual endeavour
- criteria sheet grading.
Assessment
Overview
There are three assessment items for this capstone unit. The first, a case study, requires you to audit professional pathways for emerging actor-artists, with the purpose of developing personal strategies for maximising employment opportunities, accessing professional networks and developing promotional strategies for your acting work.
The two practical items give you the opportunity to synthesise your three years of developing knowledge, skills, understanding and contextual awareness and apply these to creating work specifically designed to be performed or screened in industry forums, showcases and networking events.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Case Study
In groups you will research the processes, protocols and people associated with entry-level industry opportunities for graduating actor-artists. This will involve auditing agents, casting directors and creative producers, conducting interviews with alumni working in the field, researching the role of the studios and funding bodies, and conducting relevant literature reviews in both scholarly and professional journals and related online outlets. You will present your findings in a seminar format, appropriately referenced, and supported by selected visual media, including Powerpoint slides.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Demonstration
A demonstration of professional acting skills in a scene with other actors, according to professional protocols.
Assessment: Performance
Presentation of a series of short self-tests displaying a range of roles to industry standards.
Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is a commitment to undertaking academic work and assessment in a manner that is ethical, fair, honest, respectful and accountable.
The Academic Integrity Policy sets out the range of conduct that can be a failure to maintain the standards of academic integrity. This includes, cheating in exams, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion and contract cheating. It also includes providing fraudulent or altered documentation in support of an academic concession application, for example an assignment extension or a deferred exam.
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.
Breaching QUT’s Academic Integrity Policy or engaging in conduct that may defeat or compromise the purpose of assessment can lead to a finding of student misconduct (Code of Conduct – Student) and result in the imposition of penalties under the Management of Student Misconduct Policy, ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Requirements to Study
Requirements
All students are requested to visit and review the Health and Safety information on the HiQ web pages (CIESJ Tier 1 HSE requirement)
This unit also requires a Tier 2 CIESJ Health and Safety Induction which is provided by the technician on site in the theatre, workshop or studio.
Resources
Required equipment is listed in the Resource materials section.
Scripts – the choice of these will be advised as and when the performance season is approved. Other required reading will be available online.
Resource Materials
Safety and protective equipment
Proper clothing appropriate for active studio work is required, including closed-in shoes.
Risk Assessment Statement
For risks associated with using campus buildings or QUT facilities, refer to the HiQ Health and Safety information. For CIESJ Tiers 2 and 3 Health and Safety requirements, you will be instructed on safe procedures and the required safety gear for all studio and workshop processes that are demonstrated.
As all performance-makers understand, creating a performance potentially carries with it certain physical and/or emotional risks, both in the rehearsal room and in the theatre. Indeed taking risks is an integral component of the art form’s processes. Some rehearsal warm ups and exercises, and some performance events may include physically or emotionally strenuous activities. Managing this risk to ensure working conditions are safe, is always a high priority in the production process. It is therefore extremely important that if you are aware of personal physical or emotional vulnerabilities that make you feel unsafe or at risk in any way, you should immediately inform teaching staff, the director or stage manager, so that your situation can be evaluated and appropriate rectifying action can be taken.
Theatres and other performance spaces are also 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. Whenever moving into a new performance space, you should always conduct your own risk assessment, and notify your team or director of any hazards you have personally identified.
Every effort is made by Drama staff at QUT to ensure that you work in a safe environment. Conversely you are absolutely expected to follow all safety rules, procedures and directions, and to ensure that you do not put at risk the safety of others, or yourself, or of the highest artistic fulfilment of the project in any way.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.CA02 Bachelor of Creative Arts (Acting)
- Identify and demonstrate knowledge of the techniques and concepts underpinning your field of creative practice.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO3, Demonstration, Performance - Demonstrate complex problem solving through iterative experimentation and the creative and critical development of ideas and outcomes.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, Demonstration, Performance - Demonstrate technical proficiency and a knowledge of contemporary digital practices and technologies in one or more disciplines and apply these in creative and critical settings.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO3, Demonstration, Performance - Communicate independent learning clearly and coherently in diverse modes relevant to your field of creative practice.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO4, Case Study, Demonstration, Performance - Communicate, represent, and promote your work in ways relevant to your creative field.
Relates to: ULO2, ULO3, ULO4, Case Study, Demonstration, Performance - Discern, critically analyse, and synthesise knowledge in complex creative and critical settings.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, Demonstration, Performance - Work productively as a leader and collaborator in disciplinary and interdisciplinary practices.
Relates to: ULO2, Demonstration, Performance - Formulate and apply an independent perspective through contextual research, reflection, and by acting on the informed critique of others.
Relates to: ULO4, Case Study - Demonstrate respect for cultural and social differences, sustainability, and work with integrity across all practice and professional settings.
Relates to: ULO4, Case Study - Operate with initiative, ethical judgement and professionalism, both alone and in groups.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO4, Case Study, Demonstration, Performance
KK34 Bachelor of Fine Arts
- Identify and demonstrate knowledge of the techniques and concepts underpinning your field of creative practice.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3 - Demonstrate technical proficiency in at least one area of your field of creative practice.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3 - Represent and promote your work in ways relevant to your creative field.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3 - Discern, critically analyse and synthesise knowledge in complex creative practice settings.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3 - Work productively as a leader and collaborator in disciplinary and interdisciplinary creative practice.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3 - Formulate and apply an independent perspective through reflection and by acting on the informed critique of others.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3 - Demonstrate respect for cultural and social differences, and work with integrity across creative practice networks.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3 - Operate with initiative, ethical judgement and professionalism in creative practice, both alone and in groups.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3