DRAP2111 Performance Techniques 2B

Class contact hours will vary depending on rehearsal and performance schedules. Please contact topic coordinator for timetable details.

This topic continues to build on skills acquired in previous performance topics, including vocal training, physical training and techniques required for music repertoire. In their acting and directing classes, students consolidate techniques required to perform the contemporary Australian repertoire on stage and screen.

This topic aims to:

• Further equip students with the skills necessary for eventual employment as actors and directors in the theatre, television, and film industries
• Encourage all students to work as both interpretive and conceptual artists
• Provide basic understanding of vocal, physical, and imaginative techniques for performance in naturalistic productions on stage and screen

1. Demonstrate a further developed understanding of performance and directing techniques as they are currently employed within the theatre, television, and film industries
2. Demonstrate vocal, physical, emotional, and interpretive skills required by professional actors
3. Demonstrate advanced skills in naturalistic acting as required for proscenium theatre performance
4. Demonstrate an understanding of basic shot structure for acting for camera
5. Demonstrate physical improvisational skills and the ability to work creatively and intelligently with their bodies during performance
6. Demonstrate the vocal skill necessary for performances in proscenium theatres