NM2710 - Acting for Camera

Credit points:	03
Year:	2013
Student Contribution Band:	Band 1
Administered by:	School of Creative Arts

Available to all students

Students focus on the distinction between the actor for stage and the actor for screen and examine the idea of alternative methodologies in actor preparation. Students work with a range of film and television scripts and camera to hone performance skills including dubbing for screen, show reel audition monologues and student devised films.

Learning Outcomes

• ability to apply performance skills to a substantial event;
• ability to analyse and document the performer's contribution to the performance process;
• ability to analyse contemporary performance art within discourses of gender and race;
• ability to apply theoretical paradigms to developed performance events.

Graduate Qualities

• The ability to adapt knowledge to new situations;
• The ability to define and to solve problems in at least one discipline area;
• The ability to think critically, to analyse and evaluate claims, evidence and arguments, and to reason and deploy evidence clearly and logically;
• The ability to deploy critically evaluated information to practical ends;
• The ability to find and access information using appropriate media and technologies;
• The ability to evaluate that information;
• The acquisition of coherent and disciplined sets of skills, knowledge, values and professional ethics from at least one discipline area;
• The ability to reflect on and evaluate learning, and to learn independently in a self directed manner;
• The ability to manage future career and personal development;
• The ability to speak and write clearly, coherently and creatively;
• The ability to communicate effectively with a range of audiences;
• The ability to work with people of different gender, age, ethnicity, culture, religion and political persuasion;
• The ability to work individually and independently;
• The ability to select and use appropriate tools and technologies;
• The ability to use online technologies effectively and ethically.

Prerequisites:	12CP OF LEVEL 1 SUBJECTS
Inadmissible Subject Combinations:	NM3701

Availabilities
Townsville, Internal, Study Period 1
Census Date 28-Mar-2013
Contact hours:	13 hours lectures 26 hours workshops/Seminars
Assessment:	performance project (40%); essays (20%); journal (20%); workshop tasks (20%).

Note: Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.