Application
The role outlined in this unit applies to a broad range of technical production personnel and to stage managers. Training should be tailored to the specific context. This unit has linkages to a range of other technical units and stage management units and combined training and/or assessment may be appropriate with those units, e.g.: CUESMT08B Call the production/event CUESMT05C Stage manage the production/event. |
Elements and Performance Criteria
ELEMENT | PERFORMANCE CRITERIA |
1. Interpret production documentation | 1.1. Read and correctly interpret production documentation to identify technical requirements 1.2. Confirm interpretation through liaison with relevant colleagues 1.3. Make accurate notations on production documentation according to all information received and area of responsibility |
2. Develop and maintain the cue reference material | 2.1. Clearly and accurately plot all required technical cues, including appropriate technical notations 2.2. Make clear notations for all artistic elements of the production 2.3. Identify and accurately calculate any necessary measurements which need to be incorporated into the reference 2.4. Identify and document the most appropriate method for cueing based on production and technical requirements 2.5. Finalise the cue reference material and incorporate with other relevant production documentation 2.6. Make necessary changes as required to ensure currency of documentation |
3. Rehearse cues | 3.1. Prepare materials for technical rehearsals in advance and in consultation with relevant colleagues 3.2. Rehearse cues based on agreed process and the type of rehearsal 3.3. Make accurate notations and adjustments to production documentation based on rehearsal outcomes 3.4. Ensure all relevant safety procedures are followed, with particular reference to requirements for potentially hazardous sequences 3.5. Liaise and communicate with other production personnel in a manner which fosters co-operation within the team |
Required Skills
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Required skills |
literacy skills sufficient to interpret production documentation numeracy skills sufficient to calculate measurements health and safety requirements for technical rehearsals |
Required knowledge |
typical format and content of scripts, production schedules or other production documentation relevant to the technical area notations used to map technical elements to create accurate cue reference materials broad understanding of artistic and technical elements of the production/event such as staging, lighting and sound elements particular knowledge of the technical area of responsibility, e.g. staging, stage management, lighting, sound, audiovisual nature of technical rehearsals, including different rehearsal types, ways they are run and the role of different production personnel at each stage |
Evidence Required
The Evidence Guide provides advice on assessment and must be read in conjunction with the performance criteria, required skills and knowledge, range statement and the Assessment Guidelines for the Training Package. | |
Overview of assessment | |
Critical aspects for assessment and evidence required to demonstrate competency in this unit | The following evidence is critical to the judgement of competence in this unit: correct interpretation of artistic and technical requirements of the production/event ability to create and update accurate and clear cue reference material from a source document, and to rehearse/action cues to meet production requirements. |
Context of and specific resources for assessment | The assessment context must provide for: practical demonstration of skills through the plotting and rehearsal of cues for at least two different productions development of cue reference material within commercially realistic time constraints actioning of cues during an actual performance. Because this unit can cover a broad range of industry contexts, assessment should be tailored to address the particular technical area or job role. |
Method of assessment | Assessment may incorporate a range of methods to assess practical skills and the application of essential underpinning knowledge, and might include: review of cue reference materials prepared by the candidate project activity to allow the candidate to create and update cue reference materials for different performance contexts written or oral questioning to test knowledge of production elements, document formats review of portfolios of evidence and third party workplace reports of on-the job performance by the candidate. Assessment methods should closely reflect workplace demands and the needs of particular groups (e.g. people with disabilities, and people who may have literacy or numeracy difficulties such as speakers of languages other than English, remote communities and those with interrupted schooling). |
Guidance information for assessment | Assessment of this unit requires access to: source material such as a script or event running sheet from which the candidate can plot cues. |
Range Statement
The range statement relates to the unit of competency as a whole. It allows for different work environments and situations that may affect performance. Bold italicised wording, if used in the performance criteria, is detailed below. Essential operating conditions that may be present with training and assessment (depending on the work situation, needs of the candidate, accessibility of the item, and local industry and regional contexts) may also be included. | |
Production documentation to be interpreted may include: | artistic plan cue synopsis/list daily production schedule/running sheet event running sheet script text |
Technical requirements/cues may be for: | lighting music performers sound stage management staging visual display |
Relevant colleagues may include: | all technicians, e.g. sound, lighting choreographer designers director performers production manager stage management staff venue management staff |
Cues may be: | audiovisual cues lighting cues signals sound cues stage management cues staging element cues verbal cues |
Notations may include: | graphic notation notations for blocking movement of any technical or set elements plans for improvisation traditional notation |
Artistic elements of the production may include: | costume changes performer or presenter movements scene changes timing of cues |
Cue reference material may be: | incorporated with prompt reference material, running sheet, script or score music notated production running list/sheet scripted unscripted |
Cue reference material may contain: | map of major musical, dramatic and technical elements notations for blocking of movement of performers and set elements |
Technical rehearsals may be: | cue-to-cue dress rehearsal stop/start |
Sectors
Unit sector |
Competency Field
Media and entertainment production - stage management |
Employability Skills
This unit contains employability skills. |
Licensing Information
Not applicable.