Unit 5Advance Performance Practice

Choosing Material

Assessment focus

• You can take charge of your own learning by completing all the following tasks before next lesson.

1. Detailed record of progress in lessons (log book)

2. Practitioner and Material Research – beyond what you have been shown, what extra research have you done?

3. Rehearsal/Production Schedule

1. Record of Progress• Detailed record of progress which indicates how you have

developed and applied performance skills• This is your log book – not all of it needs to be written, it

could include • Images (your own or from internet)

• Drawings, diagrams etc (e.g. showing spacial awareness, proxemics, stage layout, movements)

• Script excerpts (see me if you need extra)

• Photos (I have taken some already but can take more during the process)

• Audio recordings etc.

2. Practitioner and Material Research• The chosen material should be suitable to the style.

• Also you need to include your research into your chosen practitioner and the performance material – the context and implications of its use should be clear – you know the form it should take and why.

• Do include:• Biographical writing about the playwright• Reviews of previous performances of the work• Images of previous productions• Personal reasons for approaching the subject matter• Context of performance – esp. If not a modern play• Detailed description of the intentions of the performance and the

skills that should be explored and demonstrated.

Rehearsal and Production Schedule

• Record the plan and targets for each session we have left and any additional ones you hold.

• Like Unit 2 (Planning), you also need to create and keep up to date a record of the rehearsal process, up to and including the performance date.

• Date/Area of Focus/Progress/Action required/Deadline/Achieved/

Mark weighting

1. Detailed record of progress2. Practitioner and Material Research3. Rehearsal/Production ScheduleThese all make up around 30% of the total marks.

50% of the marks are for your performance – and your skills in performance and communicating your intentions to the audience.

The remaining 20% is through an evaluation, completed after the performance.

Groups

• The exam board suggest that you choose your own groups to work in for this project.

• You will need to work with those who want to explore the same type of practitioner as you, be it naturalistic, abstract, political or physical based work.

• The groups should be no larger than six in number.

• Recap from assessment criteria

2 quick tasks

• Get into small groups – three or four• Task 1. Create a poster which summarises one

of the practitioners we have studied so far, showing all the essential elements of their work in the Theatre.

• Task 2. Create an 6-8 question quiz for the other teams about one of the chosen practitioners – the answers do not have to be literal, it could be asking them to perform the answers physically.

Time Management

• Over to you for the next chunk of the lesson• Explore the possibilities of who you could work

with• Begin to sketch out a schedule plan to be made

into a template neat - electronically• Make notes on initial ideas for practitioners and

plays to studyNext lesson after Xmas we start rehearsing in

earnest.

Schedule:

• We have 3 full weeks when we return before performance week. (Remember much of the evidence is through how you select appropriate material and develop it in rehearsal, using the appropriate techniques and style of the practitioner!)

• Performance Date: Thursday 26th January• You will need to rearrange any college commitments for that day

so that we can rehearse all morning and perform in the afternoon/early evening.

• We can perform in a location of your choosing but it needs to suit all groups in the context of the performance afternoon/evening.