AMSC41614 Productions 2 (Spring 2023)

The course is connected to the following study programs

Mandatory course in the Master's Programme in Scenography .

Absolute requirements

Passed all exams in the 1st semester

Lecture Semester

2nd semester (spring)

The student's learning outcomes after completing the course

The student

• can independently conceive, develop, plan, implement, test and execute scenographic work in all phases of its realisation.
• can work independently while at the same time involving others with the necessary professional expertise in the work.
• can take independent responsibility for all aspects and elements of a scenographic project.
• is knowledgeable about materials and simple structures.
• can communicate an idea to technical personnel.
• can understand and analyse prevailing trends and developments in art, technology and science, and can at the same time reflect on the them in the form of a scenographic statement.

Content

The course is experimental in nature, but with the focus on producing a finished product for an audience or users. The development of a scenography or a spatial concept in which the scenographer has the leading role and which reflects on a topic, text, piece of music etc.

The student will explore scenographic problems that can lead to and increase the possibility of interdisciplinary understanding and knowledge. The students are encouraged to relate their work to other artistically, technically and scientifically relevant areas and people. The main focus will be on an overall design in which the student has independent chief responsibility for the individual components of the work, such as space, light, sound, smells etc.

The results of Productions 2 will be shown in public, as a final finished product, where the meeting with the public or users will be an important element of the production. The student will have an opportunity to produce scenographic elements, and to investigate, choose and use relevant materials and necessary structures during execution of the production. Knowledge about materials and their characteristics (eg. through the asquistion of basic knowledge on lighting and respective equipment), and their semantic, artistic and physical properties will be studied in depth.

Students submit a portfolio containing documentation of their work and reflections on their attainment of the learning outcomes, and a revision of their Master's Production seen in relation to the course.

Forms of teaching and learning

The course will be organised as independent work under supervision.

The student is responsible for the production of all the scenographic elements and for lighting this production.

Workload

Approx. 300 hours

Practical training/internship

None.

Coursework requirements - conditions for taking the exam

Each of the first three semesters students deliver, as a collected work requirement for all semester’s courses, a portfolio documentation containing a reflective text with references, images, models etc, reflecting on the development and progress of the student's Master's Production in the context of the topics taught in the course.

The student shall also reflect on his or her own attainment of the defined learning outcome for the course.

Delivery: no later than three weeks prior to the course assessment.

The required submitted coursework must be approved by the course coordinator before the student can put him or herself forward for course assessment.

Examination

Oral exam
The assessment of the student's attainment of the learning outcome for the course is carried out at the end of the semester, following a structured discussion between the student, the student's supervisor and one lecturer who is a member of staff, based on the material in the portfolio documentation submitted by the student for Productions 2.

Permitted aids: Portfolio documentation 

Oral feedback is given.

The grades Pass / Fail are used.

Examiners

The student's internal supervisor and one lecturer who is a member of staff.

Conditions for resit/rescheduled exams

Failure to pass the exam in one or more courses will only be given one new exam attempt. New examination paper is formulated by programme coordinator in collaboration with the student's supervisor during the course of the semester's 3rd last week.

In continuation assessment, the programme coordinator must in addition to supervisor and staff teacher, who normally assess the student, appoint one additional employee teacher to this sensor array.

The Programme Coordinator, Head of Studies and student must sign that new exam paper is announced and received.

A new course evaluation (continuation assessment) takes place during the last week of the semester.

Course evaluation

In order to assure and develop the quality of the programme and the individual courses, anonymous surveys are carried out every semester. The academy's management evaluates the programme of study and the individual courses every semester on the basis of the anonymous student evaluations and an open dialogue with students and teachers during the semester.

At the end of each semester the students are invited to an open dialogue to give feedback on the programme and the direction on future study activities.

Literature

References to relevant literature, video material, websites, theatrical productions and exhibitions, art catalogues, films, music, art and theatre criticism in the media and other relevant references are provided by the Programme Coordinator and the lecturers.

An individual syllabus is drawn up in the first semester that is relevant to the work on the student's master's production and critical reflection. It is based on the general literature list for the programme. The individual syllabus is developed further during the course of the programme until submission of the Master's Critical Reflection in the fourth semester.