Cooperation with actors Field of study: Creative management in new media
Programme code: W8-S2CM20.2020

Module name: Cooperation with actors
Module code: 09-ZN-S2-WZA
Programme code: W8-S2CM20.2020
Semester:
  • summer semester 2021/2022
  • summer semester 2020/2021
Language of instruction: depending on the choice
Form of verification: exam
ECTS credits: 3
Description:
The student will acquire knowledge about interpersonal cooperation and general social communication. The student will get acquainted with the basic advantages of the actor. An actor is a creative person who has a great sensitivity, great creative predispositions such as singing, dancing, playing different real and fictional characters. He is a person ready to focus, to lead with his talent and skills, to extract even greater sensitivity in order to achieve the assumed goal. The director is the biggest partner to work with the actor, and the classes will be based on this relationship. The student learns the entire production process, detailing the stages during which work with the actor is the most important. Co-operation with the actor begins with the work on the script, the student will gain knowledge on how to talk to the actor about the role, how to get the required goal through the actor's work.
Prerequisites:
Student has to have basic knowledge on working as an actor.
Key reading:
J. Weston: Directing Actors. Michael Wiese Productions, 1996. R. McCrerey: Acting for a Living. 2012. M. Shurtleff: Audition, Everything an Actor Needs to Know to get the part. Bloomsbury, 2003.
Learning outcome of the module Codes of the learning outcomes of the programme to which the learning outcome of the module is related [level of competence: scale 1-5]
Student recognizes the relationship between theory and the practice of cooperation with an actor. The student has the knowledge how to communicate effectively. [WZA_1]
 K_W07 [5/5]
Student has the ability to think creatively about the work on which he works, he can recognize and understand his guiding idea. [WZA_2]
 K_W05 [4/5]
Student practically implements the theory in his work, proposes alternative acting and musical tasks, analyzes the creative process that takes place while working on the text. The student is aware of the close relationship and dependence of expression and genres of music. [WZA_3]
 K_U07 [4/5]
Student has the ability to remember and reproduce emotional states, has the ability to consciously use the speech apparatus, voice color, body expression, in order to obtain an appropriate form of presentation of the work. [WZA_4]
 K_U05 [5/5]
Student is open to others, is guided by imagination and intuition, cooperates and is responsible for his work, is able to make a constructive, verbal criticism of his and other people's achievements. [WZA_5]
 K_K05 [3/5]
Student has a sense of responsibility for the final artistic effect both in an individual and collective perspective. [WZA_6]
 K_K06 [3/5]
Type Description Codes of the learning outcomes of the module to which assessment is related
Test [WZA_w_1]
Verification of knowledge in the oral form, verifying the student's competence in the field of: general knowledge about working with an actor, the ability to combine the specificity of a director's work with an actor. The student on the chosen example of the work will be able to assess the director's influence in relation to the actor.
 WZA_1 WZA_2
Continuous evaluation [WZA_w_2]
The current evaluation of an individual student's work, which is the average of grades from tasks performed during the exercise. The student will be tasked with presenting multimedia good examples of the director's work with the actor, on specific works already created.
 WZA_3 WZA_4 WZA_5 WZA_6
Form of teaching Student's own work Assessment of the learning outcomes
Type Description (including teaching methods) Number of hours Description Number of hours
lecture [WZA_fs_1]
Theoretical lecture, screening of films, multimedia presentation, discussion. The student will independently analyze examples of good cooperation between the director and the actor.
 15
Analysis of the literature on the subject, analysis of the lecture content, searching for examples in practice, independent implementation of the indicated material sections, including the subject literature.
 45 Test [WZA_w_1]
practical classes [WZA_fs_2]
Show method. During the classes, students will be subjected to group and individual work exercises with a professional actor.
 15
The student prepares himself for cooperation with a given actor based on his text.
 45 Continuous evaluation [WZA_w_2]
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Syllabuses (USOSweb)
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