Moodle@Warwick

The module draws on the practical skills of students and augments them with the competencies required to produce a video. Assessment is divided into a first video based on a set text and then a final video on a subject of the student groups' choosing that is shown at the end of the Spring Term. The module is based in the department’s edit suite and includes instruction in use of camcorders and training in video editing using Adobe Premiere Pro.

Instruction is also provided in audio editing, colour grading and motion graphics and compositing using After Effects. This is an option choice that does demand considerable commitment beyond the allotted course hours. Please note that the video projects will be group works in order toaccommodate as many students as is practicable. No prior knowledge of filming or editing is required.

This module explores the relationship between identity and performance through a variety of artistic forms. The module will examine a range of practices from biographical drama to live art to stand up comedy in order to interrogate questions of selfhood, otherness, and identity. The module synthesises critical discourse with practical experimentation in order to better understand how and why we represent ourselves and others. Moreover, we will question what it means to have a 'self' to represent. We will examine questions of truth, authenticty, alterity, ethics, and antitheatricality. The module will begin by exploring key examples from different modes of performance (both practically and theoretically) and then, in the Spring Term, move towards developing devising skills and creating small group and solo practice-based projects. Throughout the course of the module we will not only investigate how and why people have sough to represent 'true' lives but consider the role of performance within the our everyday identities. The module, thus, aims to offer an engaging and challenging introduction to the politics of identity and performance.  

This module aims to position theatre and performance within the wider scene of the creative and cultural industries. It explores socio-cultural and political contexts of arts production. It introduces students to principles, practices and considerations in running an arts venue; programming, commissioning and presenting work; supporting artist development; marketing work to audiences and undertaking further outreach and engagement activities; setting up and running a theatre/performance company; conceiving programmes of work; planning tours; and identifying opportunities for funding and other sorts of professional development and support. It will also consider issues of sustainability into the future.

The module will be delivered in association with Warwick Arts Centre, building on close engagement between the Department of Theatre & Performance Studies and WAC.

The module will enable students to understand the pressures, contexts and informing principles that apply to theatre production, management and marketing. It will enable consideration and planning concerning specific company-based and individual projects. It will entail close consideration of specific producing situations and environments, and develop skills in producing, managing and marketing theatre and performance (in conceptual and emergent practical settings). It will facilitate an engagement with theatre and performance as disciplines that have effect within the wider sphere of the creative arts and cultural production.

The module will consist of sessions that combine contextual study, theoretical and conceptual overview and problem-based learning exercises. It will combine workshop and lecture-seminar approaches, with assessment activities designed to develop learning cognate to the areas studied. 3 hours per week over 9 weeks (Monday afternoons, 2.30 – 5.30) plus individual tutorials. All sessions (with the exception of the off site visits in weeks 2 and 3) will take place in Warwick Arts Centre.

This module is aimed to support you to develop your critically creative voice and practice. Through a series of structured workshops, tasks, and artist-dialogues in the first term we will work together to explore why and how you can make the work you want to make. We will think about strategies for developing work, question what ‘practice-based research’ even is, and support one another to develop our creative voices. We will also look at a handful of previous examples and alumni work and together consider what works, what stumbles, and what we can learn from those who have gone before. The module is structured to move from more supported work to more independent work as the year progresses. From the second term you will collaborate with your supervisor more and conduct more work alone/in your project group. By the end of the module you will not only have created your own piece of critically creative work but you will have learned what it means to do research through practice and also have a set of tools to take forward into your future practice -whatever that may be. Good luck, everyone!

This module explores a range of considerations to do with creating and presenting a characters in dramatic performance. You will study selected approaches to understanding and developing character in performance; explore and apply these in a workshop setting; prepare your own character-based performances for presentation; and develop your own actor's handbook of key findings, techniques and tasks geared to your own interests and development as a performer. The module will help you to gain the confidence and skills to be able to approach auditions and acting projects in the future, and will have wider benefits in terms of your understanding of dramatic texts, the construction of character, and approaches to performance.