KSB210 The Actor and the Screen
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| Unit code: | KSB210 |
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| Prerequisite(s): | KSB126 or KSB108 or KTB121 |
| Equivalent(s): | KSB223 |
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
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| CSP student contribution | $1,118 |
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| Domestic tuition unit fee | $4,104 |
| International unit fee | $4,320 |
Unit Outline: Semester 1 2024, Kelvin Grove, Internal
| Unit code: | KSB210 |
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| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | KSB126 or KSB108 or KTB121 |
| Equivalent: | KSB223 |
| Coordinator: | Mark Radvan | m.radvan@qut.edu.au |
Overview
The screen-based industries provide actors with the opportunity to reach wide audiences and to potentially access sustainable careers, nationally and internationally, as well as opportunities to create independent practice.
The Actor and the Screen introduces the core technical and analytic skills associated with contemporary acting for camera. The focus is on acquiring an understanding of how to apply analytical skills to dramatic texts written for screen, the development of specific acting techniques sensitive to technical elements such as frame, eyeline and continuity; and an understanding of simple screen production technologies and their associated personnel, workflow and purpose.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Perform television scenes with confidence in a simple studio environment.
- Demonstrate effective preparation techniques for screen acting.
- Adapt productively to the differences in professional and cultural protocols associated with acting in a film and television work-flow environment.
Content
This unit is an introduction to acting in both traditional and emerging screen technologies. Thorough a series of practice modules, you will investigate the core principles and techniques of screen acting.
Learning Approaches
In this unit you will engage in a series of individual and studio-based practical exercises, workshops, rehearsals and performances for camera. Your learning will be enriched by instruction, coaching, engagement with related theory and by completing a schedule of independent practical film-based assignments.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Throughout the progress of workshops and rehearsals, teaching staff will provide feedback to you which will inform all assessments items. It is recommended that you keep a Journal as a record of your discoveries and feedback through the course of your study and as a resource for future performance endeavour.
Feedback in this unit is also 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.
Assessment
Overview
There are two performance exercises, designed to enable you to maximise your opportunities to apply and develop your skills and understanding of screen acting.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Demonstration
You will demonstrate your developing capacity to apply effective preparation techniques to synthesise believable and insightful performance with an effective use of appropriate screen technologies by recording, editing and submitting (in self-test format) a performance of a role in a scene written for film or television.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Performance
You will demonstrate your developing skills and understanding of acting for the camera by preparing for, performing in and recording a scene or scenes written for film/television that require you to collaboratively solve specific screen acting-related problems.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
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 equipment is listed in the Resource materials section.
Other unit readings and reference material 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
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.
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.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: ULO2 - Identify and demonstrate knowledge of the techniques and concepts underpinning your field of creative practice.
Relates to: ULO2 - 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 - 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: ULO3