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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Prepare for acting practice and performances
   • Take fatigue and personal limitations into account when preparing for acting practice and performances
   • Perform warm-up and warm-down procedures in conjunction with practice or performance activities
   • Identify and use understanding of stage layout and terminology
   • Discuss creative and technical parameters of the role or performance with relevant personnel
   • Use make-up, hairstyle and costuming to portray character as required
2. Explore and practise basic acting skills
   • Perform dialogue with clarity, accuracy and control using a range of basic vocal techniques
   • Apply and practise memorisation skills for retaining lines of dialogue
   • Develop the creative use of voice and body in a dramatic context to convey role and character
   • Apply flexibility, creativity and honesty when rehearsing and acting with others and in improvised performance
   • Practise observation and sensory recall of daily life to enrich own performance
3. Explore characterisation techniques
   • Determine character to be performed
   • Build a character by using basic acting skills
   • Imaginatively respond to given circumstances and how they affect a character’s choices
4. Demonstrate a collaborative approach to dramatic practice and performance
   • Cooperate with group members during practice or performance
   • Take and interpret direction to further improve own acting practice and performance
   • Contribute creatively to group work
   • Take account of different functions and roles of theatre personnel in dealings with others
5. Evaluate own basic acting skills
   • Develop critical skills to evaluate and improve own technique
   • Use feedback from others to identify and develop ways to improve own basic acting skills

Range Statement

This section specifies different work environments and conditions that may affect performance. Essential operating conditions that may be present (depending on the work situation, needs of the candidate, accessibility of the item, and local industry and regional contexts) are included.

Rehearsing must include:	communication and consultation with relevant personnel observation and interpretation of text consistent level of commitment to developing performance quality and artistry in the given style ongoing willingness to learn.
Improvised performance must include:	breakdown of the actor's inhibitions ensemble awareness exercises in spontaneity expression of thought and emotion physical communication sensory awareness.
Basic acting skills must include:	observation and sensory awareness personalisation responding to given circumstances translating objectives into actions.

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Performance Evidence

Evidence of the ability to:

demonstrate basic acting skills

demonstrate basic vocal techniques when performing dialogue

explore and develop characterisation techniques

work collaboratively.

Note: If a specific volume or frequency is not stated, then evidence must be provided for each of the above points at least once.

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Knowledge Evidence

To complete the unit requirements the individual must:

in the context of developing acting skills, demonstrate a basic knowledge of:

historical, social and cultural significance of drama and theatre

key historical and contemporary playwrights and their texts

health and safety requirements associated with performances

explain how the following apply when acting:

group dynamics

effect of voice on audiences

common theatre conventions

lighting design

props

set design.

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