Description
This subject explores the actor/director relationship. It introduces students to the approaches and practices of working with actors to rehearse and achieve powerful screen performances. Furthermore, it demystifies how actors approach their work, the language they use to discuss their work, and the theoretical models developed over the past century, such as Stanislavski, Brecht, and Method, upon which most actors build their performance techniques.
Subject details
Type | Undergraduate |
Code | FITV12-201 |
EFTSL | 0.125 |
Faculty | Faculty of Society & Design |
Semesters offered |
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Credit | 10 |
Study areas |
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Subject fees |
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Learning outcomes
1. Analyse a script to extract its story-elements and the character's, objectives, subtext, and units of actions.
2. Successfully apply a range of theoretical approaches to developing screen performance.
3. Successfully communicate with trained actors in a performance language that is familiar to them.
4. Approach the rehearsal and staging of dramatic scenes in a collaborative manner with actors that encourages their creative input.
5. Successfully work with actors in a collaborative manner to achieve an authentic performance.
Enrolment requirements
Requisites: ? | Nil |
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Restrictions: ? | Nil |
Subject outlines
Subject dates
Standard Offering | |
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Enrolment opens | 02/08/2020 |
Semester start | 14/09/2020 |
Subject start | 14/09/2020 |
Cancellation 1? | 28/09/2020 |
Cancellation 2? | 05/10/2020 |
Last enrolment | 27/09/2020 |
Withdraw – Financial? | 10/10/2020 |
Withdraw – Academic? | 31/10/2020 |
Teaching census? | 09/10/2020 |
Standard Offering | |
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Enrolment opens | 15/11/2020 |
Semester start | 18/01/2021 |
Subject start | 18/01/2021 |
Cancellation 1? | 01/02/2021 |
Cancellation 2? | 08/02/2021 |
Last enrolment | 31/01/2021 |
Withdraw – Financial? | 13/02/2021 |
Withdraw – Academic? | 06/03/2021 |
Teaching census? | 12/02/2021 |