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Module title: Festival Workshop
SCQF level: 11:
SCQF credit value: 40.00
ECTS credit value: 20
Module code: CLP11130
Module leader: Mark Thomson
School School of Arts and Creative Industries
Subject area group: Screen and Performance
Prerequisites

There are no pre-requisites for this module to be added
Description of module content:

The module aims to extend your abiity and challenge your creative thinking to bring to life complex texts and styles and develop work for an international festival context. Lectures, observations and tutorials will suport your learning through dialogue with your Module Leader. You will develop strategies for enhancing creativity, effective group communication, setting the stage for innovative work, sympathetic listening and responding, and enhancing group problem-solving abilities.
Learning Outcomes for module:

Upon completion of this module you will be able to

LO1: Critically engage with actors and other creative artists with confidence and clarity, in group creative sessions.

LO2: Generate and exercise advanced strategies for encouraging innovative contributions in group creative sessions.

LO3: Convince a company of artists and actors of your clear artistic vision and original point of view in creative, collaborative discussions.

LO4: Critically evaluate and resolve complex artistic issues and make informed judgements under tight deadline requirements.

LO5: Exercise a range of skills to a professional level in the service of creating polished scripts/performances.

LO6: Critically assess your work within the context of the Edinburgh Fringe and evaluate and plan a range of effective marketing strategies.
Full Details of Teaching and Assessment
2025/6, Trimester 1, In Person, Edinburgh Napier University
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Occurrence: 001
Primary mode of delivery: In Person
Location of delivery: MERCHISTON
Partner: Edinburgh Napier University
Member of staff responsible for delivering module: Donna Soto-Morettini
Module Organiser:


Student Activity (Notional Equivalent Study Hours (NESH))
Mode of activityLearning & Teaching ActivityNESH (Study Hours)NESH Description
Face To Face Tutorial 18 You will initially rehearse a challenging chosen scene with a group of actors for the first half of the trimester. Throughout the trimester you will be developing proposals of 10 minutes each for your Edinburgh Fringe production. Your work in rehearsal will be viewed by your tutor throughout term and regular one to one tutorials with your tutor to critically reflect on your progress.
Online GROUPIND_STUDY 370 You will rehearse a short chosen scene designed to challenge you in independent rehearsals for performance to a professional standard in Week 7. Throughout the trimester you will also rehearse and develop your two proposals for your Fringe show.
Face To Face Practical classes and workshops 12 You will attend a number of practical Masterclasses learning skills and techniques on the developing of new work and working with writers.
Total Study Hours400
Expected Total Study Hours for Module400


Assessment
Type of Assessment Weighting % LOs covered Week due Length in Hours/Words Description
Report 10 6 Week 13 , WORDS= 2500 words You will write and essay to include firsly your research on your Chosen Scene which may include research on the writer, theatre style, performance history etc. Secondly you will focus on your Fringe proposals: where it is a new piece you will focus on how you will develop the work towards fringe; where it is an existing work you will focus on rehearsal methodology and how it relates to a fringe festival context.
Practical Skills Assessment 30 1~2~3~4~5 Week 7 HOURS= 15-20mins You will present a Chosen Scene to a professional standard with sound and light and workshop props and set in the department's theatre
Practical Skills Assessment 60 1~2~3~4~5~6 Week 13 HOURS= 10 mins each. You will present your fringe proposals' excerpts in a workshop setting with minimum props, set and sound
Component 1 subtotal: 40
Component 2 subtotal: 60
Module subtotal: 100

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