Acting Skills 3
The subject deepens the skills and knowledge gained in Acting Skills 1 and Acting Skills 2. Students continue developing their craft and prepare themselves for professional work.
Students develop their work in Acting skills 3 as part of a creative process, exploring its impact on artistic expression within specific artistic forms. The aim is to use acting as a constituent of original creative work and so engage in original forms of expression.
Acting Skills 3 focuses on supporting the specific demands of creative work in artistic production that aims to work in a more specialised form in both theatre and film.
Acting Skills 3 - TEA2016 consists of 3 subject areas: Acting, Movement and Voice. These are all practical subjects, so the classes are based on students working practically and learning by doing.
Acting consists of improvisation and text classes to develop acting and creative potential. The course fosters students' ability to work independently and to use their skills and imaginative resources to work professionally in theatre, audio, and film.
Movement consists of classes on functional and expressive movement to strengthen the student's ability to work independently on their skills development and to create meaning through movement.
Voice consists of classes on the functional and expressive use of voice. These aim to strengthen students' independence in developing and taking care of their voices. The range of the voice is developed as a creative instrument in acting and creative work.
Knowledge
The student:
- Has a good understanding of how to act within different types of artistic work.
- Knows how to keep working independently on their acting, movement, and voice skills.
- Has an excellent understanding of how to actively research and imaginatively engage in methods of acting.
- Has a profound experience of how to work collaboratively in exploring acting as part of a creative process.
- Has profound and practical awareness and understanding of how openness, curiosity and courage facilitates learning and quality in acting work.
Skills
The student:
- Can independently use their knowledge of acting in working on different artistic projects.
- Can independently extend their range and expressive qualities in acting through play and improvisation.
- Can independently make sense of different styles of texts and bring them to life in performance.
- Can independently adapt their expressive qualities of voice and movement to an artistic project.
General Competence
The student:
- Knows how to independently prepare mentally, vocally, and physically to be ready to face the realities of working as an independent actor and rehearse longer shows and perform in longer pieces for the public.
- Knows how to work as a group on a performance and get it ready for the public.
- Knows how to play in a range of styles in accord with different aesthetic forms.
- Knows how to independently understand the meaning and style of a text and make valuable acting propositions in rehearsal and performance.
- Can independently apply and develop their acting skills to different styles, forms, and mediums, including film and audio.
Practical subject
Compulsory subject
All teaching takes place at the campus. The work is carried out as a whole class, in groups, and individually.
The instruction is organised in regular weekly work sessions and extended work sessions in connection with presentations. Periods of work outside of the scheduled times must be anticipated in specific periods.
The learning approach uses an inductive/problem-solving method. All tasks begin with a challenge, provocation, or foundational material, and it is the students' responsibility to find a coherence in the form of a scenic presentation based on the frameworks, constraints, and materials that have been agreed upon.
Teaching Methods
Movement:
- Regular instruction where students explore and develop the body's relationship to space, imagination, and interaction.
- Conducted through provided exercises, techniques, and assignments.
Acting:
- Regular instruction where students explore and develop skills in acting and stage art production within specific themes.
- Classes focus on improvisation, stylistic analysis, and assigned tasks.
Voice:
- Regular instruction where students explore and develop the use of voice in relation to space, imagination, interaction, and text usage.
- Includes various exercises, techniques, and assigned tasks.
Assignments:
- Presentation and staged performance of work with accompanying feedback and reflection.
- Task solving and skill training without guidance.
Mandatory Attendance
The work in the subject primarily takes place with the entire class or in groups, where everyone's participation and contribution are essential to the development of each individual. For this reason, the subject has mandatory attendance.
Nord University works continuously to improve the quality of its studies. In this work, we work closely with the students: in that the students participate in the evaluation of both the individual courses and the study as a whole. Evaluation in each course will take place by:
- At the start of a course: clarification of expectations between lecturer and students
- Continual evaluation throughout the semester
- Final evaluation
Comprehensive evaluation of the study takes place at regular meetings between representatives for the students and study leaders at Nord University. Students are also encouraged to participate in the central quality surveys.
Composite Assessment - all components must be approved/passed to receive a grade in the course.
Compulsory participation (OD): Mandatory attendance in teaching and agreed student-led activities is assessed as approved/not approved. A minimum of 90% attendance is required. Counts for 0/100 of the final grade.
Assessment task (AK): 25 practical course requirements. tage presentations are work requirements during the academic year. Assessed as approved/not approved. Counts for 0/100 of the final grade.
1st Semester:
Practical Exam (PE): Common exam for the entire class (stage performance) with individual assessment. Duration of up to six hours. Grading: Pass/Fail. Counts for 50/100 of the final grade
2nd Semester:
Practical Exam (PE): Group exam (stage performance) with individual assessment. Duration of up to six hours. Grading: Pass/Fail. Counts for 50/100 of the final grade.
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