Alyx’s Unit H 20, 21 &H22 Template 2023-2024 by

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Once you have selected your stimulus your performance company will need to pitch your intentions to your financial backers. Within your pitch you will need to justify

· Your theme selection

· Your intentions for the piece, the plot, the setting and the characters in depth

· Cost and requirements

· Rehearsal schedule

· Contingency plans

· Proposed date and time of performance

· Audience requirements

· Technology requirements

· Set

· Costume

· Music

Pitch checklist.

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Include the following information on your Padlet and within the pitch- You may present this in any format.

1. Your group
Who is in your group and how are you sharing the responsibility of creating the performance

2. Code of conduct- A picture or typed up information

3. Your responsibilities (e.g. lighting, costume, choreography)

What are your roles and responsibilities for your job role.

4. Performance selection
Which scripts/ performance ideas did you look at as a group and which did you disregard?

Which script have you chosen/ performance idea/ musical/ song?

5. The Characters (if applicable)
Discuss the following in detail

- Who is playing each role

- The plot,

- The setting

- The characters

6. Cost and Requirements
What is your overall cost to put on this production and how are you going to fund this?

What is your requirements for costume, props and set.

7. Proposal template and Rehearsal schedule
Are you planning any extra rehearsals or filming dates?

8. Performance requirements

What is the proposed date, time, place and room requirements for the performance?

9. Audience requirements
Who will be able to attend this performance, are you selling tickets? if so, how will you be arranging this?

10. Technical requirements
In terms of sound, lighting etc. where will you source this from and how are you going to use it?

11. Contingency plan
What do you think may go wrong and how do you plan to overcome this?

Contingency Plan

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Complete the following Contingency plan template, this can be put in your Pitch and on your own padlet page

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Targeted Criteria

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Consistently attentive and participative during discussions and meetings, providing a range of pertinent and insightful inputs. They show leadership in their contribution to the creative development of the project.

Selecting a script/ performance material

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Research which script/ performance/ Musical/ Film you might like to put on-
You may choose any script or songs that are published (as in has been staged or you can purchase the book/ score/ script/ film script)
You may also adapt a script for TV and Film or vise versa.

Script- This can be a whole script, sections put together, edited to create a smaller performance or scenes from the script. You can not add your own section/ scene (an odd word change is fine, gender or name changes are fine)
Song/ Musical- This can be from one musical or songs from other musicals linked in some way to create a whole performance.
Performance- This can be film, live, voice over, any style of performance you wish.

YOU MUST WORK IN A GROUP

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You will perform within your role for the final performance in the time and date negotiated. For this to be a successful performance you will need to ensure that you have fully completed all aspects of the rehearsal process.

For the performance you will need to showcase your performance skills and demonstrate the following.

Secure and proficient application of technical performance skills
Application of skilled interpretive performance skills that consider;
The artistic aims of the performance
The stylistic qualities of the piece
The needs of the target audience
Clear and effective communication with the other performers and the audience.

Selecting group/ roles

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- Select group
- script
- Responsibilities (Costume, set, Tech)
- agree code of conduct
- Director/ MD. Performer, or collaborative

What you should include in your Padlet Page;
1. Who is in your group?
2. Which script you have selected, why? Importantly- which script did you disregarded and why?
3. Who is overseeing your Directing? How will creative choices be made?
4. What is your agreed code of conduct
5. What is your individual responsibilities?

Synopsis- Task one-

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*What is a synopsis ?

Find a definition of a synopsis online

Find a synopsis of a well known play

Extension, can you find a synopsis for your script.?

Why can't we just use an existing synopsis?

What is a synopsis?

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A synopsis is a brief summary or general overview. You may be asked to write one for an agent, for a competition judge, or for a publisher. It usually accompanies a sample from your manuscript, to help the reader see how the sample fits into the larger story. Your synopsis gives them the detail necessary to understand your book.

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A synopsis is different from a planning outline. Some writers prepare an outline before their first draft. It describes characters, breaks down the story scene by scene, and identifies plot threads. But outlines are functional, technical and often long documents. A synopsis should be elegant and concise.

A synopsis is also different from a pitch. The main purpose of the pitch is to get the audience to read a sample of your manuscript. It should indicate the central concept of the story and entice the audience. But anyone reading your synopsis has already requested a sample. The synopsis and the sample must work in harmony, a roadmap rather than an invitation.

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Things you should do

*1) Stick to the point: You don’t have space in one page for your sub-plots or beautiful digressions..

*2) Spoilers sweetie: Tell the big twist, show the best bits. The reader of a synopsis is a professional. You need to show them that cool stuff happens in your story. They don’t have time to take it on faith.

*3) Trim to the bone: The synopsis is not the book, and that’s ok. The first book of A Song of Ice and Fire is told from the PoV of eight different major characters, but if you described all their arcs in a one page summary it would rob them of their force and you would end up with a muddle. Better to focus on one key arc and make reference to the others as appropriate.

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*Things you should not do

*1) Commentary: Don’t tell them how great your work is. Don’t tell them how they should feel about stuff or what stuff means. Concentrate on giving a clean, clear description of what happens in the story and let them decide for themselves.

*2) Floweriness: The synopsis probably isn’t the place for clever metaphor or flashy rhetorical technique. I’m not saying write badly. But your sample will illustrate your talent for advanced assonance. Make your synopsis simple.

Task- Create a synopsis

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In your group;

Write your own synopsis.

This can change and adapt over time and will go into your directors file.

We will feed this back to the group and upload these onto the padlet page

Creative portfolio

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Host a production meeting- within your groups you should host a production meeting and discuss the following elements
1. Are you happy with the sections we have made (song or scenes) if not are there changes that need to be made?
2. Are you on track for the deadline (performance) do you need any extra rehearsals?
3. What is that plan moving forward (what do you hope to achieve today and in the next week?)
4. Is there anyone you need to liaise with complete these tasks?

To evidence this meeting you can video record, voice record, take notes or type directly onto your Padlet.
Criteria- H21.1 Demonstrate personal engagement and individual responsibility when developing a collaborative project

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Throughout the rehearsal process you will need to continue to have regular production meetings, within these meetings you should discuss and document the following.

· Communicating with the stage management team and technicians

· Producing design ideas for production elements such as costumes, makeup and set

· Financial spreadsheets

· Research into the requirements of the role

· Rehearsal schedule and monitoring the development of the performance

· Justification of creative choices, for the group and your own individual character.

· Technical and interpretive performance skills

Evidence of collaborative skills used throughout rehearsals

Showback

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You will need to show back approx 10 minutes worth of material to the group. This will be filmed as part of the assessment .

H22.D3 - Fully account for presentation format and use the audience to inform and inspire the final outcome.
H22.M3 - Learners clearly consider audience and presentation format.
H22.P3 Pass -Learners show some consideration of target audience and presentation format.

How to write a press release

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Character Profile

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Weekly Plans

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Production Planner

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Costume

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Light and Sound

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Fund raising/ Finance

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Marketing

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Props

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Action Plans

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Selecting a script

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Selecting group/ roles

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Pitch, include a copy of the PowerPoint of your pitch

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1. Your group
Who is in your group and how are you sharing the responsibility of directing the performance

1. Code of conduct- A picture or typed up information

2. Your responsibilities (e.g. lighting, costume)
What are your roles and responsibilities for your job role.

3. Performance selection
Which scripts/ performance ideas did you look at as a group and which did you disregard?
Which script have you chosen ?
A synopsis
You need to include a script draft and a final script

4. The Characters
Discuss the following in detail
- Who is playing each role
- The plot,
- The setting
- The characters

5. Cost and Requirements
What is your overall cost to put on this production and how are you going to fund this?
What is your requirements for costume, props and set.

6. Rehearsal schedule
When, where and how are you going to ensure you fit this into the rehearsal time frame.

7. Performance requirements
What is the proposed date, time, place and room requirements for the performance

8. Audience requirements
Who will be able to attend this performance, are you selling tickets? if so how will you be arranging this?

9. Technical requirements
In terms of sound, lighting etc. where will you source this from and how are you going to use it?

10. Contingency plan
What do you think may go wrong and how do you plan to overcome this?

Proposal

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Task- Create a synopsis

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In your group;

Write your own synopsis.

This can change and adapt over time and will go into your directors file.

We will feed this back to the group and upload these onto the padlet page

Communication/ development evidence

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Include evidence of the following
these can be voice notes, screenshots, emaislo, transcripts of conversations held.
Communicating with the stage management team and technicians

· Producing design ideas for production elements such as costumes, makeup and set

· Financial spreadsheets

· Research into the requirements of the role

· Rehearsal schedule and monitoring the development of the performance

· Justification of creative choices, for the group and your own individual character.

· Technical and interpretive performance skills

Evidence of collaborative skills used throughout rehearsals

Creative portfolio

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How to write a press release

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Job roles

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From your job role include evidence of you undertaking it.

You can use the following evidence or any other evidence as required.

Character Profile

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Action Plans

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Weekly Plans

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Production Planner

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Costume

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Light and Sound

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Fund raising/ Finance

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Marketing

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Props

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Rehearsal videos

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Evidence of rehearsal footage

Performance Reflection

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From the rehearsal process-
1. Did you work well as a group? Expand on how, why and examples
2. Reflecting from the pitch did you set out to achieve what you hoped you would? What changed and why?

Performance-
1. Did the performance go as hoped?
2. What challenges did you face on the tech?
3. Where you happy with the final performance?

Extension Evaluation

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Criteria
Use technical and interpretive performance skills showing some innovation and having a crucial and clear impact on the creative development and direction of the project.

Assignment Brief H21/H22

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1. Pitch

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You should have a copy of your pitch you undertook in class, including the contingency plan.
(Copy of the powerpoint is on the padlet under final pitch collum)
Good- if you can include your own notes from the presentation
Even better- What are your options?
Why have you chosen the performance?
How are you going to reconstruct this?