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Task 1

The recommended submission for this task is a presentation that evaluates your current skillset with

that of the skillset required for your desired career specialism and identifies appropriate progression

routes and factors for sustainable employment within the performing arts industry, linked to your chosen

specialism. The presentation should be between 15 – 20 minutes long, recorded or live and also

submitted in document form to canvas.

Task 2

Recommended submission for this task is a Padlet Page, on which you will create and implement a

development plan which will outline specific activities to improve your skills and refine your knowledge

of your specialist area.

Task 3

Recommended submission is in the form of an evaluative essay, however a recorded presentation or

extension of your padlet page will also be accepted. This task will assess trends within the industry and

the importance of being aware of these and analyse your specialist employment opportunities following

your development plan execution.

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LO1 Assess the skills required for employment in your chosen area of specialism within the performing

arts industry.

LO2 Design a personal professional development strategy that will outline targets for proactive skills

development.

LO3 Undertake the personal development plan over an agreed time frame.

LO4 Evaluate own continuing professional development in line with wider commercial awareness of industry trends and the employment market.

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Task 1 Presentation

You will deliver a presentation that explores your skillset compared to the skillset and personal

attributes required for your chosen career destination. Your chosen career destination should be

specific and specialist, not just a broad performing arts career. You will discuss several possible

avenues of progression, which might include higher education, joining an agency and funding. Alongside

artistic skills, you should also demonstrate an understanding of commercial factors necessary to gain

sustainable employment within the performing arts industry. To do this you will present findings on two

artistic factors and two commercial factors and analyse how to keep them updated for a sustainable

career. To end this presentation you will provide short, medium, and long-term targets that will aid your

skillset development, linked to your chosen career.

Elements to consider:

· The career or areas of performing arts you wish to enter

· Your current skillset and personal attributes

· The skillset and attributes needed for your chosen career pathway

· Do any of your skills need updating or refining – do you need to acquire any new skills

· Possible progression routes

· Artistic and commercial factors for a sustainable career

· Short, medium and long term targets relating to artistic skill, personal attributes and

commercial factors

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Task 2 Padlet Page

Continuing Professional Development (CPD) is an imperative element of sustaining a career within the performing arts industry. After presenting your findings on desired skillset for your chosen specialist career, you will compile a Padlet page that identifies opportunity for CPD and contains the following: · A review of your skillset and desired skillset · An in-depth evaluation of at least two achievable targets · A development plan to achieve these targets with identified timescale (CPD) · A log of you completing tasks to work towards your targets that demonstrates your skill development To develop relevant professional attributes, you will also create and attach a showreel to your padlet page, provide evidence of your ability to join an agency, research into unions, and provide an up-to-date performer’s CV.

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Task 3 Essay (Presentation or Padlet Page) Your final document will evaluate the current trends in your chosen specialist field and the importance of having an awareness of these trends, developments, changes and advancements. You will also evaluate the CPD you have undertaken and analyse your employability and employment options having carried out your development plan identified in task 2. You may consider the following: · Digital advancements · Expectations on a performer / creative within the industry · What do contemporary theatre audiences want? · Why is important to be aware of the current industry trends and the development when thinking about employment? · How and why has your CPD over the past few months altered your career prospect

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P1 review skills required for

employment in your chosen

discipline or specialism

P2 Compare own skill set with

industry requirements for your

chosen career pathway

M1 Explore the progression routes that lead to employment opportunities that relate to your discipline or specialism

D1 compare commercial and artistic factors to identify sustainable employment development needs specific to career goals.

D2 Analyse your employment opportunities based on your professional development plan in relation to developments in the areas of the industry that relate to your specialism

P3 identify the key

professional attributes that

relate to your specialism

P4 Illustrate short-, medium-

and long – term career targets

M2 Explore experiential activity that will address the development of relevant professional attributes

M3 demonstrate skill development in chosen discipline

M4 Evaluate the importance of commercial awareness and industry trends, specific to your area of specialism.

P5 Carry out personal

development plan over an

agreed timescale

P6 illustrate your development

through the creation of a

log/diary/journal

P7 evaluate your skill set to

identify development in

identified target areas

P8 assess industry trends in

the areas of the industry that

relate employment in your

specialist area

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Start studying in quiet places.

Creating equal slots between working and taking breaks

I will number my task and take note before starting work

Relate to do lists t help plan my work to get it done

Take useful notes during lessons

Use notes for when working

Organise my notes and plan a layout

Research as I go along and make useful notes

Not push myself to work when I have low energy

Read my work out loud and correct any mistakes

Make links between work

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Pantomime 2021 (L)
Devising 'So many stories' 2022 (L)
Connections 2022 (L)
We will rock you 2022 (L)
Cabaret 2022 (L)
Pantomime 2022 (L)

Semblance of madness 2023 (L)
Once upon a time 2023 (F)
Solo 2023 (F)
Connections 2023 (L)
The Antony's 2023 (L/F)
Legally Blonde 2023 (L)
Cabaret 2023 (L)

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Strengths :

facial expressions

Use of acting without speaking

Weaknesses:

Trying to follow my development plan

Opportunities:

A new skill that I learned was how to act without using my voice

Open to more roles in the future that only use mime to communicate

Threats:

Not organising my time to help me prepare for my role

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Strengths:

Singing in front of an audience

Performing choreography in a small group

Being able to perform multiple characters both on and off screen

Weaknesses:

Not enough rehearsal time

Opportunities:

Learning new choreography that I've never done before

Designing and planning sets

Helped me gain more confidence with performing in front of an audience

Threats:

Spent to much time rehearsing for group performances that there wasn't enough time to rehearse for other aspects of the performance

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Strengths:

Gathering costumes for my short film

Writing out script

Weaknesses:

Not planning my time well for filming different scenes

Opportunities:

Learned how to edit and put a short film together

Threats:

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Feedback I gave to Charlie of what went well and better ifs this is also on his padlet page.

Julians apology Monologue 1.

What went well

You had really strong emotion and really felt was Julian was feeling .

You kept at a very good pace throughout and you delivered this monologue with clear speech and confidence.

Incorporating the hands when needed work effectively and really helped to further push how you were feeling and saying.

Better ifs

Try leaving a little gap after you started recording to saying your monologue and after so you don’t get the stopping and starting of the recordings.

Stars align : Labels Monologue 2.

What went well

You made it clear when you changed characters.

Again you had really strong emotion and showed a real understanding of the monologue.

You delivered this monologue with confidence.

Reki and Langa fight scene sk8 monologue 3.

What went well

You had clear differences between the characters.

Really good emotion and confidence acting and delivering this monologue.

Feedback for all

The costumes really helped bring the characters to life and shows you put a lot of thought into your self-tapes. The colour correction really helped make the videos standout and really vibrant. And the editing and synching of the voice clips worked well

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If I was to perform Panto 2023 again I would find ways to help plan and organise my time to help me prepare for my role, and focus on how to follow and update my development plans. I would also do more research into role or character or type of acting that I am doing ( performing just using mime) look at more examples on how to be more expressive or use more actions and take a look at how people have done it differently.

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BREAKFAST CLUB:

use of voice is really good, the emotion being portrayed is clear and understandable. I can tell what emotions the character is supposed to be feeling through your tone of voice. :)

for some improvement, id say work on facial expressions. take pauses as though you didn’t know exactly what you were gonna say.

DEAD POETS SOCIETY

the pace is good, the slower pace really helps to set the tone of the monologue. The diction on “that you are here, that life exists” is a great choice and really helps to deliver the message.

filming in separate takes can work for practicing certain sections. but for future final monologues do it as one whole take :)

BANANA FISH

again try to film as one take, perhaps take a slower pace in some bits. take pauses a parts where eiji might be thinking about what ash has said to him

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Banana fish monologue-Eiji Okumura bloopers

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Banana fish monologue-Eiji Okumura bloopers

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The dead poets society -Keatings monologue bloopers

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The dead poets society -Keatings monologue bloopers

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What skills you are doing and why
How are you going to work on them (what exercises and activities are you going to carry out)
What is the frequency of the exercises/activities
How are you going to measure your success

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AI is making it possible for machines to mimic human actions and adjust to human tasks and life forms.

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The dead’s poets society-Keating Monologue

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The dead’s poets society-Keating Monologue

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Eiji's letter

Dear Ash,

I'm worried to death because I haven't been able to see you doing well.

You said we live in different worlds, but is that true?

We have different colored skin and eyes. We were born in different countries, but we're friends. Isn't that what counts?

I'm really glad I came to America, I met lots of people. And more than anything, I met you.

You asked me over and over if you scared me, but I never feared you, not once. What's more is you're hurt much more than me, I couldn't help feeling that way. Funny, huh? You're way smarter, bigger and stronger than me, but I always felt like I had to protect you. I wonder what it is I wanted to protect you from.

I wanted to protect you from fate. The fate that tries to carry you away, drifting further and further.

You told me once about a leopard you read in a book, how you believed that leopard knew that it couldn't go back and I said you weren't a leopard, that you could change your destiny.

My soul always with you side.

Sayonara, America. Sayonara, New York. But I'm not saying "sayonara" to you, Ash. I know we'll meet again, no matter how far apart we are. You're the greatest friend I'll ever have.

- Eiji Okumura

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What skills are you going to work on and why 

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Filming self tapes

I want to film self tapes to build on confidence and work on facial expressions and naturalism.

Social media

I want to build a social media account and keep up with what happening within the industry

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Breakfast Club monologue Bloopers -Claire

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Breakfast Club monologue Bloopers -Claire

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CLAIRE: Oh, be honest, Andy... if Brian came walking up to you in the hall on Monday, what would you do? I mean picture this, you're there with all the sports. I know exactly what you'd do, you'd say hi to him and when he left you'd cut him all up so your friends wouldn't think you really liked him! 'Cause I'm telling the truth, that makes me a bitch? (to Bender) Okay, what about you, you hypocrite! Why don't you take Allison to one of your heavy metal vomit parties? Or take Brian out to the parking lot at lunch to get high? What about Andy? For that matter, what about me? What would your friends say if we were walking down the hall together. They'd laugh their asses off and you'd probably tell them you were doing it with me so they'd forgive you for being seen with me. I hate you!

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Filming self tapes

I am going to film myself doing my favourite scenes and monologues from films that I like and film myself practicing them and not just filming the final take of the self tapes. I will be recording myself practicing to how I worked on naturalism and to see what I can improve before filming the final self tape.

Social media

I am going to create a professional account and use that to post about performances I’m doing and build a platform for myself and repost and keep up to date with what’s happening within the industry.

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Commercial Factors - reflect and research 

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Commercial Factors - reflect and research 

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Self promotion and social media

It is important to stay up to date with social media because it is constantly growing and changing and showing that you are following and adapting along side shows that you are open to change and is able to keep up with things that you can control like a social media account. It is important to keep posting to keep the account relevant and show you are active, it also makes you stand out to industry professionals like casting directors who are looking for people to fit roles and give opportunities.

Follow industry social media

Staying up to date with industry social media shows that you are branching out and making those connections within the industry. If you are keeping up to date with relevant news within the industry and following along , shows that you care and shows what you believe in and shows what you stand for.

Attending new productions/ films

If you attend new performances / films

Join industry groups

Joining industry groups helps you to meet new people and gain new skills .

Keep up to date with technology

Read industry blogs and publications

Take courses and workshops

Networking

Networking helps to exchange ideas between individuals that are connected by a common career, industry or interest. It helps to build and maintain professional relationships within the industry. Networking can also be attending industry events, joining online communities and professional associations. You can also get informal interactions. Networking is the best ways to find new jobs/new roles in current company, helps with referrals. When gaining professional relationships they can inspire someone to hand deliver your resume to hiring managers desks, helps to stand out from the crowd and someday land your dream job. It is important for career development as it helps your social well being in that it can help you make friends within the industry and meet new people, lead to the exchange of ideas, meet new people on all professional levels, boots your own professional confidence and expands your visibility.

Stay informed about funding and grants

Be aware of box office and revenue data

Understanding legal and business aspects

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C - Mum.

M - Mmm?

C - You know Charlie's my best friend?

M - If you're asking if he can come on our holiday, the answer's "no." cause ive already booked the tickets.

C - No, that's not what I was going to say. He's my boyfriend. Charlie's my boyfriend. I... I still like girls, but, um... We... I like boys too. ( hesitating ) And me and Charlie, we're... We're going out. And I just... wanted you to know.

M - Oh, baby. Oh. ( sniffles ) Aw, thank you for telling me. I'm sorry if I ever made you feel like you couldn't tell me that. You don't have to say you like girls if you don't.

C - No, I, um... It's definitely not just guys. I, um... It's called bisexuality. If you've heard of that?

M - I have heard of that. I wasn't born in the 18th century. ( both chuckle ) How long have you known?

C - Well, um... Me and Charlie started going out a couple of months ago, but... I started liking him way before that.

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This schedule is to show how often I am going to work on my skills

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Since 1985, they are members of the personal managers association and equity. Narrow road specialises in promoting unique talent from actors to creatives.

I like this agency as they take not just actors they look at taking on everyone within the performing arts.

In order to be taken on in an agents book, the skills need to improve on would be acting skills in general and voice skills.

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Heartstopper Monologue: Nicks coming out with Charlie 

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Heartstopper Monologue: Nicks coming out with Charlie 

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Heartstopper Monologue : Nick comes out (with maddi)

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John Keating: We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. To quote from Whitman, "O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless... of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life?" Answer. That you are here - that life exists, and identity; that the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. That the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?

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How are you going to measure your success 

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How are you going to measure your success 

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Filming self tapes

To measure my progress on self tapes I am going to review what I did well after each practice video and what I should improve on for next time and ask for other people’s opinions on what they liked about my self tapes.

Social media

I am going to take screenshots of what I upload and what I repost to show that I am updating and keeping up to date with news happening within the industry.

I will be working alongside Charlie, as we can help each other with self tapes and give each other and give each other recommendations on what monologues to do. This will help as we can give each other feedback.

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What is the trend or development?

Over the years, the inclusion of different ethnicities gender and sexualities and disabilities, have become more apparent and represented within media, like heartstopper. The use of diversity has had positive effects yet also has negative effects like being used purely for attention and to gain money and popularity.

Where did it come from? Why did it happen/what is the need for it in 2023?

How does it relate to your career specialism?

With the performing arts industry it is important to have the inclusion and diversity as it allows to open more roles to more people that in the past would not have been there.

Why is it important to stay on top of this trend within your career specialism?

Being accepting

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What does equity define itself as?
Trade union protecting the rights of actors, performers.
What is it purpose?
Making sure that workers are being paid properly and that the working conditions are suitable.
How much does it cost to join equity?
The lowest annual subscription rate for monthly pay, the first payment is £45.50 with payments of £12.50.
What are the benefits of becoming an equity member?
The benefits of joining equity include insurance coverage,discounts and workplace support.
What does equity protect?
What is an equity dep/ deputy?
Equity deps are union's workplace representatives
Are there any other performing arts trade unions in the uk?
If so how do they differ to equity?

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