Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
LJMU Partner Taught
Learning Methods
Practical
Seminar
Module Offerings
4510IABMT-SEP-PAR
Aims
The aims of this module are to:
1. Provide the student with practical and theoretical understanding of creative, analytical and expressive processes in acting.
2. Introduce techniques and methods, including the principals of Stanislavski, as the foundations of expression and analysis.
3. Encourage individual and collaborative interpretation, analysis and communication of different contemporary texts.
4. Enable students to develop versatility and flexibility in their speaking voice in con-junction with awareness of good alignment and physicality.
Learning Outcomes
1.
Explain, summarise and demonstrate an understanding of the techniques and disciplines required to achieve a creative state.
2.
Explore literary, dramatic and performance ‘texts’ using a range of appropriate techniques.
3.
Demonstrate awareness and sensitivity to other performers, space, objects and audience as an individual and within an ensemble.
4.
Embody physiological foundations of body and voice demonstrating clarity of tone, projection, speech and articulation.
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:Acting will introduce students to a diverse range of exercises and rudiments of analytical expression through a range of contemporary texts from staged productions. Students will explore techniques in characterisation development, improvisation, justification of actions, self-awareness, observation and expression. A key focus of the work will require students to interrogate key principles of text and character analysis including, but not limited to character objectives, active analysis, obstacles, transitive verbs, subtext, given circumstances and actions.
The Voice component will focus on clarity of tone, speech and articulation utilising different texts and monologues. The relationship between body and voice will be explored as students work towards developing a sensory awareness to specific sounds.
Additional Information:This module equips students with fundamental acting and voice techniques that can be applied to a range of contemporary texts in both individual and ensemble settings.
Assessment is via live, studio-based presentations.