VCE Theatre Studies 20072011

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VCE Theatre Studies 20072011

• Study implementation workshop

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VCE Theatre Studies 20072011

• Implementation workshop program
• Study design
• Units 14
• Assessment handbook
• Sections 13

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Study design

• Content and structure
• described in more detail
• specific requirements listed in key knowledge
• focus on
• using stagecraft
• acting techniques
• theatrical styles in playscripts and performances

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Unit 1 Theatrical styles of the pre-modern era

• AoS1 - Pre-modern theatre
• 3 or more theatre periods to be studied
  through practical workshops
• AoS2 - Interpreting playscripts
• AoS3 - Analysing a play in performance

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Unit 2 Theatrical styles of the modern era

• Same structure as Unit 1
• AoS1 - Modern theatre
• 3 or more theatrical movements to be studied
  through practical workshops
• AoS2 - Interpretation through stagecraft
• AoS3 - Analysing a play in performance

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Unit 3 Production development

• AoS1 - Production process
• AoS2 - Stagecraft influence
• AoS3 - Production analysis
• Assessment tasks
• Application and understanding of stagecraft
• Production folio
• Analysis and evaluation of a play selected from
  the Unit 3 playlist

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Unit 3 Production development

• AoS 1 Production process
• Involves interpretation of a playscript
• selected by the school
• that provides scope for each student to apply two
  areas of stagecraft to achieve at the highest
  level of performance in the assessment task
• in a collaborative way

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Unit 3 Production development

• AoS 2 Stagecraft influence
• Involves documentation and analysis of the
  influence of stagecraft on the production
  undertaken in Outcome 1.
• The production folio completed for the
  School-assessed coursework task should include
  material

• from the four stages of the production processes
• outlined in relevant stagecraft specifications

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Unit 3 Production development

• AoS 3 Production analysis
• Focuses on
• Analysis of a performance selected from the Unit
  3 Theatre Studies playlist
• Both the written playscript and its
  interpretation on stage

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Unit 3 Assessment
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Unit 4 Performance interpretation

• AoS 1 Monologue interpretation
• Focus is on the interpretation of a monoloue from
  a playscript selected from the monologue list
• Involves study of the
• text of the monologue
• prescribed scene
• playscript from which the scene is derived

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Unit 4 Performance interpretation

• AoS 2 Scene interpretation
• Involves
• development of a theatrical brief that presents
  an interpretation of a prescribed scene
• applying research, stagecraft and theatrical
  style/s
• outlining theatrical possibilities

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Unit 4 Performance interpretation

• AoS 3 Performance analysis
• Focuses on
• analysis of a performance selected from the Unit
  4 Theatre Studies playlist
• study of both the character/s in the play and how
  the actor/s interpreted them on stage.

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Unit 4 Assessment
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Assessment Handbook

• Section 1 Administrative Procedures for
  Assessment in Theatre Studies

• Based on VCE and VCAL Administrative Handbook
• Reference material relating to
• Reporting student achievement
• School-based assessment
• examinations

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Assessment Handbook

• Section 2 Theatre Assessment Advice
• Includes for each Outcome in School-assessed
  coursework a description of the task and advice
  on
• designing an assessment task
• resources and scheduling
• performance descriptors that provide a guide to
  the standards expected when setting and marking
  assessment tasks
• Examination criteria

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Assessment Handbook

• Section 3 Assessment Support Material and
  Further Resources

• General introduction focusing on designing,
  implementing and marking School-assessed
  coursework tasks
• Sample approaches to School-assessed coursework
• Unit 3 Outcome 3
• Unit 4 Outcome 1

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Examinations
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• With Thanks
• Drama Victoria
• www.dramavictoria.vic.edu.au

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Contact Details

• Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority
• (VCAA)
• Ph [phone]
• Fax [phone]
• Curriculum
• champion.helen.h_at_edumail.vic.gov.au (03) 9651
  4668
• Examinations
• allen.kristin.k_at_edumail.vic.gov.au [phone]
• Performance examination
• martin.glenn.w1_at_edumail.vic.gov.au [phone]
• www.vcaa.vic.edu.au