CUAACT413 — Develop and apply comedy techniques for musical theatre
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What an assessment for CUAACT413 must cover
36 assessable components: 3 elements (15 performance criteria), 6 performance evidence and 9 knowledge evidence requirements, plus 6 foundation skills. An audit-defensible tool maps every question and task back to these — that mapping is the coverage matrix Auditori generates alongside the assessment.
Elements & performance criteria
1 Prepare to apply comic performance techniques
- 1.1Identify and analyse problems that could limit movement and physical expression, or cause injury
- 1.2Discuss ways to avoid physical and vocal problems with required personnel, and develop strategies for addressing problems if they arise
- 1.3Perform vocal and physical warm-up routine in preparation for performance activities
- 1.4Develop individual practice schedule with exercises to strengthen and expand vocal and physical techniques
2 Develop and apply comic performance concepts in musical theatre context
- 2.1Discuss the appeal of comedy and how comic performance techniques can be used to enhance musical theatre performances with required personnel
- 2.2Test ways of using humour in portrayal of characters in different musical theatre styles
- 2.3Integrate comedy into songs and dance routines, and produce comic effects by speaking and singing in different accents
- 2.4Explore physicality of character using gesture, timing and action
- 2.5Experiment with ways of using comedy to engage with audiences
- 2.6Participate in improvisation, alone and with a partner, as a way of adding humour to characterisation
- 2.7Perform routine that integrates dancing, singing and comic performance skills in a rehearsal environment
3 Review and maintain comic acting skills
- 3.1Evaluate own development of comic performance skills in musical theatre context
- 3.2Use feedback from others to develop strategies for improving own comic performance skills
- 3.3Maintain and update knowledge of musical theatre trends, stagecraft, and production protocols and procedures
- 3.4Attend performances by industry practitioners and document new ideas and industry trends that can be applied to own practice
Performance evidence
- perform and demonstrate comedic techniques in at least three musical theatre performances, at least one of which must be a group performance and at least one of which must be a solo performance
- identify and develop comedy skills suitable for musical theatre performances
- undertake vocal warm-ups and warm-downs
- apply comic performance skills to solo and group song and dance routines
- work collaboratively with others during performances
- develop own voice in response to constructive feedback
Knowledge evidence
- features of a range of musical theatre and comedy styles
- current trends in musical theatre
- principles and characteristics of comic performance techniques as they relate to performing in musical theatre
- principles underlying vocal techniques in a musical theatre performance context
- relationship that is built between performers and audiences in the context of comic performances
- aspects of stagecraft and their relationship to performers
- production protocols and procedures used by musical theatre performances
- aspects of the human voice used in musical theatre performances
- strategies to respond to self-evaluation, feedback and good practice to improve comic acting skills
Foundation skills
- Oral communication: Discusses ideas and solutions Conveys comedy in speech and song using tone of voice, vocabulary and other verbal and non-verbal strategies
- Reading: Obtains information required for working in musical theatre from written sources
- Initiative and enterprise: Works creatively on developing techniques for adding humour to characterisation
- Self-management: Follows required time for vocal and physical warm-up procedures in advance of acting activities Applies safe vocal and physical practice Takes responsibility for own professional development
- Teamwork: Works collaboratively on ways of using comic techniques to portray characters
- Technology: Uses the internet as a source of information
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What does an assessment tool for CUAACT413 need to cover?
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