ACP208 - Theatre and Creative Technologies
Unit details
| Year: | 2021 unit information |
|---|---|
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| Enrolment modes: | Trimester 2: Burwood (Melbourne) |
| Credit point(s): | 1 |
| EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
| Unit Chair: | Trimester 2: Misha Myers |
| Prerequisite: | Must have completed one credit point at level 1 from ACD, ACI, ACP or ACV coded units plus any other level 1 unit |
| Corequisite: | Nil |
| Incompatible with: | Nil |
| Typical study commitment: | Students will on average spend 150-hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit. |
| Scheduled learning activities - campus: | 1 x 2-hour seminar per week and 1 x 1-hour practical per week |
Content
In this unit you will use technologies as a starting place for devising performance. The unit looks at how different technologies and innovations, digital and non-digital, operate in past and contemporary theatre as expressive tools that shape and determine different roles and bodily techniques of the performer, forms of audience experience and interaction and stages and arenas of performance. Students will develop an understanding of and language for how technologies such as those of sound, light and screen and networked, online, extended reality, immersive, mobile and located tools, devices and environments shape and enable certain forms of theatrical expression and experience. In the unit students will have the opportunity to experiment with a given technology or set of technologies as a starting point to devise a performance prototype that demonstrates the emergent creative direction of their application.
| ULO | These are the Learning Outcomes (ULO) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can: | Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|
| ULO1 | Research, test and critically analyze how particular technologies shape and enable certain forms of theatrical expression | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities GLO4: Critical thinking GLO5: Problem solving |
| ULO2 | Generate imaginative possibilities and solutions for performing and creating content for theatrical action using a given technology or set of technologies in collaboration with others | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities GLO3: Digital literacy GLO5: Problem solving |
| ULO3 | Plan, document, reflect on and evaluate audience experience and decisions made in the creation of performance using technologies | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities GLO3: Digital literacy GLO4: Critical thinking GLO5: Problem solving |
These Unit Learning Outcomes are applicable for all teaching periods throughout the year
Assessment
| Assessment Description | Student output | Grading and weighting (% total mark for unit) | Indicative due week |
|---|---|---|---|
| Assessment 1 (Individual and Group) - Performance Pitch | 800 words or equivalent | 20% | Week 5 |
| Assessment 2 (Individual and Group) - Performance Playtest | 1600 words or equivalent | 40% | Week 8 |
| Assessment 3 (Individual and Group) - Performance Prototype & Portfolio | 1600 words or equivalent | 40% | Week 11 |
The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.
Learning Resource
The texts and reading list for the unit can be found on the University Library via the link ACP208
Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list.
Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.
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