Bachelor of Production (Honours)

Overview

This course is designed to enable high achieving students the opportunity to further develop their artistic practice as well as their analytical, critical and research skills.

Objectives

The objectives of this course are to:

• Produce students who are able to work creatively at a senior level in a production team, either as a designer or in the technical crafts
• Give students a highly developed understanding of structure of the Australian performing arts industries
• Further develop the student's capacities to research and problem solve
• Further develop the student's abilities to participate effectively and collaboratively on a production
• Produce professional practitioners in the performing arts.
  

Prerequisites

1. The Selection Committee will evaluate the applicant's ability to pursue successfully the course using the following crtieria:

• Successful completion of Bachelor of Production at the VCA, with an H2B or better in Production Placement, or
• Equivalent level of attainment from another institution.

2. The Selection Committee may conduct interviews and auditions and may call for referee reports to elucidate any of the matters referred above. An applicant who fails to undertake the interview without reasonable excuse will not be selected.

Subjects by Year

Year 1

• 757401 - Honours (Production Placement)
• 757402 - Honours Research Thesis

Subjects

Year 1

Subject description:

Honours (Production Placement) builds on knowledge, experience and skills developed in the Bachelor of Production in the student's field of specialisation (set, costume, lighting and sound design, or the allied crafts). Each student will be assigned at least two major productions drawn from the College's production schedule. They will be assigned in senior roles as either part of the creative team, or as leaders in the technical and craft areas.

It is expected that all creative and production work will be taken in a spirit of professionalism, carried out to a high standard of excellence and employing current industry practices.

Students will be required to attend a weekly seminar with other students assigned to similar roles, they will also be required to keep a placement diary for all projects and submit the diary for assessment on completion of the placement.

Objectives:

On completion of this subject the student should be able to:

• demonstrate strong creative and technical skills
• effectively plan and organise work and solve problems
• effectively communicate in oral and written form
• exhibit strong ability to lead a team as well as participate at a high level as a crew member of a collaborative team, while respecting individual differences
• apply specific knowledge to a complex practical project
• exhibit strong knowledge of the performance arts industries.
  

Assessment:

Quality of participation in all phases of the production as assessed by the supervisor (50%); Documentation including research materials, models. drawings, budgets, production paperwork (30%);
Production Placement Diary (20%).

Time Commitment:

780 hours

Subject description:

Each student will nominate an area of enquiry pertaining to their chosen field of study. In consultation with their supervisor and through a number of research methods classes, the student will develop a research question or hypothesis, conduct a literature review in relation to this question and then research and submit a paper interrogating this hypothesis.

Objectives:

On completion of Minor Research Thesis students should be able to:

• exhibit a specialist area of knowledge in the performing arts industries, at a high level
• exhibit a capacity to design, conduct and present original research
• communicate effectively both orally and in writing.

Assessment:

Minor Research Thesis 10,000 -12,000 words. (100%)

Time Commitment:

260 hours