AMSC41314 Productions 1 (Autumn 2024)

The course is connected to the following study programs

Mandatory course in the Master's Programme in Scenography.

Lecture Semester

1st semester (autumn)

The student's learning outcomes after completing the course

The student

• can conceive, develop and reflect on a scenography as an important creative part of a greater whole.

• can read and analyse a dramatic or non-dramatic text, and secondary texts, and develop a scenography on this basis.

• can maintain a dialogue and cooperate with one artistic partner from a different field and ensure that work carried out by a group of two partners progresses satisfactorily.

• can independently create/produce a scenography, is knowledgeable about materials and simple structures.

• can communicate an idea to technical personnel in small working groups.

• can develop, implement and execute lighting / lighting design as an inherent element of scenography, and comply with applicable safety procedures.

Content

Productions 1 focuses on the collaborative process between two artists / students from different fields in connection with the conception, development and implementation of ideas and the testing of performative work. The student will be responsible for the scenography in a small-scale, but complete, production. Throughout the process from the studying of technical drawings and making initial sketches to public viewing, the student will cooperate closely and maintain a dialogue with a director / stage director, choreographer, curator, film director or other artist / student. The student should maintain a good professional dialogue with his or her partner throughout the process. Awareness of ethical issues relating to collaborative processes will be emphasised.

Unlike Laboratories, the results of Productions 1 are intended for public viewing as a final finished product, where the meeting with the audience is an element of the production. In this workshop, the student will only be able to focus on one aspect of production (such as an excerpt from a text, a piece of music, part of a larger topic etc.) This aspect will be dealt with in relation to all the scenographic elements (such as space, lighting, objects, costumes, sound, smells etc.) The student will have an opportunity to produce scenographic elements, and to investigate, choose and use relevant materials and necessary structures during the implementation of the production. Knowledge about materials and their characteristics, 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 is organised as independent work carried out in collaboration between two partners - under expert supervision.

The student is responsible for the production of all the scenographic elements and for lighting the 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 1.

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 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 Master’s 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.