| Type: | Undergraduate Subject |
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| Code: | FITV12-201 |
| EFTSL: | 0.125 |
| Faculty: | Faculty of Society and Design |
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| Credit: | 10 |
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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, British, and Method, upon which most actors build their performance techniques.
Subject details
Learning outcomes
- Analyse a script to extract its key story and performance elements, such as character backstory, objectives, and performance units.
- Apply a range of theoretical approaches to outline the development of an emotionally truthful screen performance.
- Effectively deploy interpersonal communication skills when communicating with professionally trained actors in a performance language that is familiar to them.
- Approach the rehearsal and staging of dramatic scenes in a collaborative manner that encourages creative input from professionally trained actors.
- Work with actors in a professionally collaborative manner to achieve an emotionally truthful screen performance.
Enrolment requirements
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Nil |
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| Assumed knowledge: |
Assumed knowledge is the minimum level of knowledge of a subject area that students are assumed to have acquired through previous study. It is the responsibility of students to ensure they meet the assumed knowledge expectations of the subject. Students who do not possess this prior knowledge are strongly recommended against enrolling and do so at their own risk. No concessions will be made for students’ lack of prior knowledge.
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Subject outlines
- September 2025 [Standard - Directing Actors]
- May 2025 [Standard - Directing Actors]
- September 2024 [Standard - Directing Actors]
- May 2024 [Standard - Directing Actors]
- September 2023 [Standard - Directing Actors]
- May 2023 [Standard - Directing Actors]
- September 2022 [Standard - Directing Actors]
- September 2021 [Standard - Directing Actors]
- May 2021 [Standard - Directing Actors]
- January 2021 [Standard - Directing Actors]
- September 2020 [Standard - Directing Actors]
- January 2020 [Standard - Directing Actors]
- September 2019 [Standard - Directing Actors]
- January 2019 [Standard - Directing Actors]
- January 2018 [Standard - Directing Actors]
- September 2017 [Standard - Directing Actors]
Subject dates
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September 2024
Standard Offering Enrolment opens: 14/07/2024 Semester start: 09/09/2024 Subject start: 09/09/2024 Last enrolment: 22/09/2024 Teaching census: 04/10/2024 Withdraw - Financial: 05/10/2024 Withdraw - Academic: 26/10/2024 -
May 2025
Standard Offering Enrolment opens: 23/03/2025 Semester start: 19/05/2025 Subject start: 19/05/2025 Last enrolment: 01/06/2025 Teaching census: 13/06/2025 Withdraw - Financial: 14/06/2025 Withdraw - Academic: 05/07/2025 -
September 2025
Standard Offering Enrolment opens: 22/07/2025 Semester start: 15/09/2025 Subject start: 15/09/2025 Last enrolment: 28/09/2025 Teaching census: 10/10/2025 Withdraw - Financial: 11/10/2025 Withdraw - Academic: 01/11/2025
| Standard Offering | |
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| Enrolment opens: | 14/07/2024 |
| Semester start: | 09/09/2024 |
| Subject start: | 09/09/2024 |
| Last enrolment: | 22/09/2024 |
| Teaching census: | 04/10/2024 |
| Withdraw - Financial: | 05/10/2024 |
| Withdraw - Academic: | 26/10/2024 |
| Standard Offering | |
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| Enrolment opens: | 23/03/2025 |
| Semester start: | 19/05/2025 |
| Subject start: | 19/05/2025 |
| Last enrolment: | 01/06/2025 |
| Teaching census: | 13/06/2025 |
| Withdraw - Financial: | 14/06/2025 |
| Withdraw - Academic: | 05/07/2025 |
| Standard Offering | |
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| Enrolment opens: | 22/07/2025 |
| Semester start: | 15/09/2025 |
| Subject start: | 15/09/2025 |
| Last enrolment: | 28/09/2025 |
| Teaching census: | 10/10/2025 |
| Withdraw - Financial: | 11/10/2025 |
| Withdraw - Academic: | 01/11/2025 |