EA428-7-AU-LO:
Collaboration with Designers
2020/21
East 15 Acting School
East15 (Loughton) Campus
Autumn
Postgraduate: Level 7
Current
Thursday 08 October 2020
Friday 18 December 2020
30
20 October 2020
Requisites for this module
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Collaboration With Designers
Aims:
The module explores the different modes of collaboration between the director and the artistic and technical teams which contribute to the production. It is envisaged that the module will be subdivided into sections covering the main areas of collaboration one at a time.
Learning Outcomes:
Knowledge and understanding of and ability to demonstrate:
• Relationships between theoretical and practical challenges to directors
• Translate complex theoretical models to practical application
• Production Planning
• Roles and functions of all participants responsible for creating theatre
• Appropriate research methods
• Synthesis of diverse sources of knowledge
• Applied use of research
• Critical playtext reading
• Oral and visual presentation of ideas
Syllabus:
*Working with the designer: main principles and method of work illustrated on extant models and costume designs.
* Working with the lighting designer: what can and cannot be done, the timing of the designer's involvement, basic principles of lighting. Exercises in lighting an extant model.
* Working with a fight director: the basic principles of fight arrangement; safety and the director's responsibility; staging armed and unarmed combat
Teaching and Learning Methods:
Directed autonomous learning, workshops, rehearsals, seminars, presentations and feedback sessions.
This module does not appear to have a published bibliography.
Assessment items, weightings and deadlines
| Coursework / exam |
Description |
Deadline |
Coursework weighting |
| Coursework |
Logbook |
|
25% |
| Practical |
Logbook |
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75% |
Additional coursework information
Assessment:
• Contribution to Coursework 75%
• Director’s Logbook 25%
• Compliance with Professional Code of Conduct
Exam format definitions
- Remote, open book: Your exam will take place remotely via an online learning platform. You may refer to any physical or electronic materials during the exam.
- In-person, open book: Your exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer to any physical materials such as paper study notes or a textbook during the exam. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, open book (restricted): The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer only to specific physical materials such as a named textbook during the exam. Permitted materials will be specified by your department. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, closed book: The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may not refer to any physical materials or electronic devices during the exam. There may be times when a paper dictionary,
for example, may be permitted in an otherwise closed book exam. Any exceptions will be specified by your department.
Your department will provide further guidance before your exams.
Overall assessment
Reassessment
Module supervisor and teaching staff
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Ms Jennifer Stephens
Bristol Old Vic Theatre School
Prof Robert Swain
Birkbeck
Professor
Available via Moodle
No lecture recording information available for this module.
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