School 2

Project Brief

Course: UAL Diploma in Performing and production arts (Musical Theatre)

Module/Unit title: Performance Skills and Context Unit 6 A night at the musicals
Unit Aim: To enable learners to critically analyse, integrate and apply, knowledge and understanding acquired in previous units and to explore the specific skills and
attributes required for performace and design in the performing arts.

Stage Task Evidence Criteria

Unit 6
Production 1.1
Produce performance design brief for your Night at the Musicals project. Portfolio 1.2

You will be required to put together a set list for a show to be put on in a Village Church. You will need to
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take into account audience types within your portfolio and justify each song choice.

Apply your research findings to support your production brief.

Using you performance portfolio, you should show that you have the ability to plan, organise and present Unit 6
solutions to performance problem solving. Production 2.1
Portfolio
You will be required to write a suitable rehearsal schedule for the songs you have chosen. Unit 6
2.1
You will be required, in your own words, to write an introduction to each number to replace a theatre Filmed
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programme. Your introduction should suit your audiences and can be written in an informal and chatty performance.
way.

You will be required to apply the practical skills planned for within your production portfolio.

3 You will be required to write a Findings Report of at least 500 words, analysing the effectiveness of your Evaluation Unit 6
project plan File 3.1
Issue date: 4th January 2017
 School 2

Project Brief
Show date: W/C 6th March 2017
Portfolio Hand in Date: 13th March 2017

Unit 6
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit the student will:
1. Be able to analyse and research a performance brief in the performing arts.
2. Be able to use an integrated approach to performance problem solving in the performing arts.
3. Be able to evaluate solutions to a performing arts brief.

Assessment Criteria
On successful completion of this unit the student can:
1.1 Analyse the requirements and parameters of a performance brief in performing arts.
1.2 Apply research activities to support solutions to a performance brief in performing arts.
2.1 Demonstrate the ability to plan, organise and present solutions to a performance problem in performing arts.
2.2 Apply practical skills, understanding and methods to solve performance problems in performing arts.
3.1 Analyse the effectiveness of solutions to a performing arts brief.