Module Descriptors

The realisation of a creative concept involves challenging and detailed procedures. Producers, directors, technicians, choreographers, musicians, and performers face a range of unpredictable circumstances in which they must exercise responsibility, initiative and engage in complex decision-making. You must acquire and develop the skills necessary to manage and realise a production whilst adapting to ever-changing circumstances and challenges in preparation for a professional environment. You will explore the responsibilities of production and performance roles, synthesising the skills necessary for the organisation of a performance artefact and consolidated through the processes by which performance is created, realised, and managed. The use of authentic learning events or real-life experience is encouraged, which will develop your professional skills necessary for future employment in the industry. You will demonstrate your ability to apply evidence-based methods in a practical setting and skills through performance. As a ‘reflective practitioner’ you will identify and deal with aesthetic and ethical challenges demonstrating your awareness and relevance of your choices leading to the deploying of a range of professional creative skills to realise a ‘new’ practice-based project. Through this creative process you will take responsibility for creative, technical, critical, and conceptual choices in professional practice whilst noting how you managed all ethical, legal and regulatory practice. You will work in small groups via lectures and tutorials to achieve a new ‘live’ or pre-recorded performance realisation which is reflective (but not limited to) commercial, digital, community and contemporary performance genres.

• • Performance research techniques and application


• • Professional performance techniques, processes, and application


• • Critical application and reflection

On successful completion of this module the student will be able to:

L1. Apply advanced specialist knowledge and understanding to production and performance processes.

L2. Practise in a defined production and/or performance roles in a professional level context.

L3. Exercise autonomy in using a range of professional skills and some complex and specialised skills in support of established practices to realise a professional level production.

L4. Critically identify, define, conceptualise, and analyse production and performance processes.

Demonstrate and/or work with:

Detailed knowledge and understanding in one or more specialisms some of which is informed by or at the forefront of a subject/discipline.

Knowledge and understanding of the ways in which the subject/discipline is developed, including a range of established techniques of enquiry or research methodologies.

Demonstrate critical insight into contemporary debates and issues related to the reception, creation and interpretation of performance.

Demonstrate command of a variety of advanced research methodologies.

Demonstrate specialist professional knowledge and understanding of the global context of at least one area of performance.

Use a range of the principal skills, practices and/or materials associated with production.

Deploy critical, integrated, and comprehensive knowledge and understanding of the landscape of performance.

Apply a critical awareness of the interplay between creative and critical modes of enquiry in performance.

Apply specialist professional knowledge performance.

Critically identify, define, conceptualise, and analyse complex/professional level problems and issues within production

Offer professional insights, interpretations and solutions to problems and issues.

Critically use information retrieval skills, involving the ability to gather, sift, manipulate, synthesise, evaluate and organise material.

Conceive, develop, and realise professional level collaborative dynamics.

Use a range of advanced and specialised skills in support of established practices for performance and workshop activities for example:

Produce formal performances of material suitable for selected audiences Communicate with professional level peers, senior colleagues, and specialists.

Use a range of IT applications to support and enhance work.

Communicate with peers, senior colleagues, and specialists on a professional level.

Deal with complex ethical and professional issues in accordance with current professional and/or ethical codes or practices with performance production.

Exercise autonomy and initiative in professional/equivalent activities through performance production.

Manage complex ethical and professional issues in accordance with current professional and/or ethical codes or practices.

The following materials form essential underpinning for the module content and ultimately for the learning outcomes:

In line with the Academic Engagement Procedure, Students are defined as academically engaged if they are regularly engaged with timetabled teaching sessions, course-related learning resources including those in the Library and on the relevant learning platform, and complete assessments and submit these on time. Please refer to the Academic Engagement Procedure at the following link: Academic engagement procedure

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1. More than one assessment method can be used to assess individual learning outcomes.
2. Schools are responsible for determining student contact hours. Please refer to University Policy on contact hours (extract contained within section 10 of the Module Descriptor guidance note).
   This will normally be variable across Schools, dependent on Programmes &/or Professional requirements.