KTB326 Drama Practice: Realisation
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| Unit code: | KTB326 |
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| Prerequisite(s): | KTB316 or KTB303 |
| Equivalent(s): | KTB313 |
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
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| CSP student contribution | $1,118 |
| Pre-2021 CSP student contribution | $957 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 | $4,104 |
| International unit fee | $4,320 |
Unit Outline: Semester 2 2024, Kelvin Grove, Internal
| Unit code: | KTB326 |
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| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | KTB316 or KTB303 |
| Equivalent: | KTB313 |
| Coordinator: | Shane Pike | shane.pike@qut.edu.au |
Overview
This advanced unit enables you to independently realise a new work on the page, stage or in between, responding to real world opportunities you may pursue after graduation. Interpretation, transformation and generation all have a role to play in realising a new creative work. This unit activates the foundations of prior drama practice units in a capstone experience which enables you to further develop your creative practice. Successful creative practice is measured by degrees of expertise, diligence and awareness that are acknowledged by audiences, peers and industry. Talent aside, much is dependent on working with others to converge drama theory, skills and practice into proposals, presentations or performances that possess viability and integrity. It is also reliant on the capacity of individuals and groups to formulate and respond to critique and successfully navigate dynamic uncertainties of creative realisation to fashion a viable outcome.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Demonstrate technical facility in a nominated creative activity.
- Critique effectiveness to work in a self-reliant way whilst engaging in teamwork practices, leadership and entrepreneurship.
- Work productively as a leader and collaborator in the process of independently creating, producing and presenting a new creative work or original adaptation.
Content
This unit gives you practical experience in the realisation of performance events under the mentorship of drama staff members and/or industry professionals. To realise the performance outcome, you will draw upon a repertoire of skills and practice as well as collaborate with other students and creatives working towards a common creative goal. The process will culminate in a performance outcome appropriate to the project.
Learning Approaches
This capstone unit requires you to work in a self-reliant way through the application of skills and techniques related to performance-making processes and outcomes including critical, creative and analytical thinking and effective problem solving in a professional context.
The emphasis is on realisation. The outcome can be a fully formed short conventional performance, a performance text or a devised performance event and your participation can range across the spectrum of creative roles and tasks. The nature of the creative endeavour and the outcome will be negotiated with staff according to the needs of the particular work being created.
There will be opportunities for close contact with, and feedback from, the drama staff and/or industry mentors. There is an emphasis in this unit on your personal learning, both as a practitioner, and as a collaborator working in partnership with other practitioners, throughout the course of the project. Attention and commitment is expected to the whole process of mounting a production/event, and any actual on-stage acting outcome is only part of what ‘performance’ implies.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
You will have access to both drama staff members and/or industry professionals throughout the unit who will provide timely feedback and critique, based upon the students' requests. Written and oral feedback will be provided to individuals and groups upon request.
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
- generic comments back to the cohort via QUT Canvas
- criteria sheet grading.
Assessment
Overview
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Reflective Journal
A reflective journal is a personal record of your learning experiences. This written statement asks you to reflect in action (while doing something). Your reflections will be anchored around a sequence of pre-determined questions. The reflective journal will be undertaken consistently during the rehearsal process and should be an honest appraisal of your contribution to the performance project to date written in first person.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Assessment: Creative Work
The realisation and presentation or performance of a new creative work or original adaptation.
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.
Resources
Required Text/Equipment
Required reading will be available online.
Students are reminded that proper clothing appropriate for active studio work is required, including closed-in shoes.
Recommended References
Other unit readings and reference material will be available online.
Risk Assessment Statement
All students and staff are required to complete the Tier 1 General Health and Safety Induction for access to campus buildings and facilities. This must be completed online.
This unit also requires a Tier 2 Health and Safety Induction which is provided by the technician on site in the theatre, workshop or studio. Not all students are required to complete the Tier 2 induction.
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 your tutor or 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.KK34 Bachelor of Fine Arts
- 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: ULO3 - Identify and demonstrate knowledge of the techniques and concepts underpinning your field of creative practice.
Relates to: ULO3 - Demonstrate complex problem solving through iterative experimentation and the creative and critical development of ideas and outcomes.
Relates to: ULO1 - Demonstrate technical proficiency in at least one area of your field of creative practice.
Relates to: ULO1 - Communicate independent learning clearly and coherently in diverse modes relevant to your field of creative practice.
Relates to: ULO3 - Represent and promote your work in ways relevant to your creative field.
Relates to: ULO3 - Discern, critically analyse and synthesise knowledge in complex creative practice settings.
Relates to: ULO2 - Work productively as a leader and collaborator in disciplinary and interdisciplinary creative practice.
Relates to: ULO2 - Formulate and apply an independent perspective through reflection and by acting on the informed critique of others.
Relates to: ULO2 - Demonstrate respect for cultural and social differences, and work with integrity across creative practice networks.
Relates to: ULO2 - Operate with initiative, ethical judgement and professionalism in creative practice, both alone and in groups.
Relates to: ULO2