FT3ATMP-Advanced Theatre Making Project

Module Provider: Film, Theatre and TV
Number of credits: 40 [20 ECTS credits]
Level:6
Terms in which taught: Autumn / Spring / Summer module
Pre-requisites: FT2CCP Community and Collaborative Practice or FT2CCPSA Community and Collaborative Practice
Non-modular pre-requisites:
Co-requisites:
Modules excluded: FT3DISS Dissertation: Film and Theatre or FT3AFP Advanced Filmmaking Project or FT3CRP Creative Research Project
Current from: 2023/4

Module Convenor: Dr Matt McFrederick
Email: m.mcfrederick@reading.ac.uk

Type of module:

Summary module description:

The Advanced Theatre Making Project represents the culmination of your creative practiceÌýtheatre and performance. This major project is an opportunity to achieve your practical ambitions, to engage with key critical debates and to develop your own theatre making specialism within a group. Forming an ensemble, you will research, prepare, plan and deliver the performance work alongside supervision, culminating in showings at the end of year festival.Ìý

Aims:

The module aims to test students’ ability to apply accumulated skills and knowledge to a major research-based practical project with accompanying documentation, which is initiated and developed under supervision.Ìý

Assessable learning outcomes:

By the end of the module it is expected that students will be able to:Ìý

• demonstrate the ability to plan on paper a coherent practical project in theatre which draws convincingly on critical and theoretical debates and practices encountered elsewhere on the course;Ìý


• articulate a clear set of aims, expressed both in terms of creative and critical objectives;Ìý


• demonstrate levels of technical skill and achievement appropriate to their project;Ìý


• realise a practical project that is internally coherent, systematic and imaginative in its decision making and that is informed by an appropriate critical and conceptual agenda;Ìý


• evaluate their project self-critically, analysing both local and systemic levels of decision making, in the light both of independent reading and research and selected examples of theatre and performance practice.Ìý


• establish how their project is guided by professional and industry contexts through the realisation of their project and its overall delivery as an event (in terms of organisation skills related to programming, marketing, technical co-ordination and box-office) within a student-led festival.ÌýÌý

Additional outcomes:

Assessment is based on the outcomes of a Practical Project and Development Blogs. The processes of the Practical Project and Developments Blogs will encourage a range of other outcomes.ÌýÌý

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Development Blogs:Ìý

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Appropriate deployment of research using printed and electronic resources; critical analysis and coherent argument; presentation of written work with appropriate visual, audio and audio-visual aids from the practical process and further research; exploring and engaging with relevant professional practices and industry contexts; identifying and addressing problems in theatre and performance practice; self-evaluation and self-critical analysis.Ìý

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Practical Project:Ìý

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Practical planning and time management; the realisation of a major piece of creative work; successful management of the resources involved in production/creative work, including the management of a production team, within the constraints and policies of the Department; the development of IT and technical skills (e.g. video projection design, lighting design using computerised control boards; computer aided design for theatre).Ìý

Outline content:

Each student must combine a creative and critical decision-making role with research. Written documentation in the form of development blogs will always be completed individually.Ìý

During the Autumn Term students will meet regularly with their supervisors, identify the nature of their intended project and under supervision will develop detailed plans for a project which is appropriate in scale, can be achieved within available resources and is informed by a clear andexplicit critical agenda. Satisfactory completion of this phase of work will lead to approval of a production schedule. Students will give a short