Acting - Explore and develop your acting skills and review your

own practice

Mr Cresswell

22/1/2015
12/2/2015

12/2/2015

21 hours

BTEC Level 1/Level 2 First Award in Performing Arts

Unit 3: Acting
Learning Aim A: Explore and develop your acting skills and review
your own practice

You have been selected to be part of the actors repertory group

in a Theatre Company. As part of your role you must develop your
knowledge further of the actors toolkit skillset and demonstrate
it in a micro showcase of scenes from a playtext. You will study
acting, rehearsal and staging techniques that will culminate in a
short performance.

The first task focuses on the development of skills. You will

initially have learned about basic skills and the System of Acting
as identified by Naturalistic Theatre Director, Constantine
Stanislavski. Here you will develop those skills further by
undertaking a study of, and then mounting extracts from, the play
Walking with Shadows by Ben Myers. You will also need to
explore rehearsal and staging techniques. This study will
culminate in a short performance from the play.
You must undertake the following activities:

Participate in the workshops fully,

Demonstrate insight during the workshops
Utilise a range of staging techniques
learn your lines
Use both your own imaginative ideas and those of others to
create a well-rounded performance.
Lead and direct your short performance scenes
Respond to direction,
prepare your character for the short performance
Deliver the performance to the class.
Remain fully in character throughout the final
performance.

As part of your Actor training you must create a production log

of your work throughout the workshop, rehearsal and
performance stages. As part of this you will undertake an initial
skills audit, set targets, reflect on progress, record, review and
evaluate your performance work at key points culminating in the
short performance.
You must undertake the following activities:

Complete your skills audit by defining all of your keywords

accurately and in detail..
Clearly identify skills that need further development
Set yourself personal targets to work toward.
Review your strengths and areas to develop at least 3 times
over the course of the process.
Review your performance work at key stages.
Present detailed and thorough reviews of your performance

work that evaluate the strengths and weaknesses in your

own performance work and identify what specific elements
could be changed to improve the final impact on the
audience.
Explain and justify your reasoning behind setting your
personal targets
Reflect on your progress at least 3 times
Production log including audit and targets.
Recordings of performance pieces
Teacher observation reports
Reflection and review of own work.

Demonstrate competent use and control of

technical and interpretive acting skills in

2A.P1

2A.M1

2A.D1

practice and development.

Demonstrate competent use and control of
technical and interpretive acting skills, showing
consistency in focus, response and effort in
practice and development.
Demonstrate competent use and control of
technical and interpretive acting skills, showing
imagination and insight and a high level of focus,
response and effort in practice and
development.
Present an on-going review of acting skills,
describing strengths and areas to develop.

Present a detailed and on-going review of acting

skills, describing strengths and areas to
develop, setting achievable targets for
improvement and reviewing progress.

2A.P2

2A.M2

Present a detailed and on-going review of acting

skills, making qualitative judgements about
strengths and areas to develop, setting and

2A.D2

justifying achievable targets for improvement

and evaluating progress.

Stanislavski, C An Actor Prepares Bloomsbury (reprint) 2013

Myers, B Walking with Shadows Nelson Thornes, 2002

Demonstrate limited use and control of technical and

interpretive acting skills in practice and development.

Identify, with guidance, strengths and areas to develop in

own technique.

1A.1

1A.2