Copy and paste from the following data to produce each assessment task. Write these in plain English and spell out how, when and where the task is to be carried out, under what conditions, and what resources are needed. Include guidelines about how well the candidate has to perform a task for it to be judged satisfactory.
Required skills
communication skills to:
discuss performance space issues with others
communicate performance design requirements to designers and technicians
initiative and enterprise skills to:
approach the designing of performance spaces with confidence and focus
contribute to innovative approaches to designing performance spaces
learning skills to:
make connections between technical and artistic elements of productions
adjust performance space designs in response to peer analysis
planning and organising skills to prepare performance space designs that take into account a range of variables
teamwork skills to:
work collaboratively with others involved in planning performances
work in an artistic team making positive contributions to analyses of performances.
Required knowledge
well-developed knowledge of:
stage geography terminology
staging elements
differing potentials of a range of indoor and outdoor performance spaces
issues and challenges that can arise in the context of designing performance spaces
overview knowledge of:
design aesthetics associated with lighting performances and manipulating performance spaces
OHS principles and procedures related to designing performance spaces.
The range statement relates to the unit of competency as a whole. It allows for different work environments and situations that may affect performance. Bold italicised wording, if used in the performance criteria, is detailed below. Essential operating conditions that may be present with training and assessment (depending on the work situation, needs of the candidate, accessibility of the item, and local industry and regional contexts) may also be included.
Essential geography and terminology may include: | existing architectural elements of the performance location stage geography terminology, such as: centre stage off stage back stage up stage right and left downstage right and left opposite prompt prompt stage types, such as: proscenium arch in the round traverse end on thrust arena staging elements: drapes or borders flats ramps risers rostra structural objects capable of being moved about the space and creating changes in dimension and height treads fly tower. |
Performance spaces may include: | outdoor stadium or suitable site stage studio theatre community or school hall. |
Relevant personnel may include: | actor camera operator choreographer comedian community member dancer designer director manager musician OHS representative producer production manager sound director supervisor teacher technician venue proprietor or manager. |
Simple set elements may include: | basic lighting drapes or borders flats elevation props. |
Way performance lighting systems function may relate to: | electrical issues equipment operations licensing requirements performer and audience safety issues. |
Performance lighting systems may include: | animation disks bars or truss above the performance space booms dimmer racks domestic lighting floods floor stands foggers fresnels hazers lighting control boards looms pebbled convex (PC) lamps peripherals: barn doors gobos shutters profiles range of gel colours. |
Ways in which lighting design concepts contribute to a performance may relate to: | abstract elements environment focus mood. |
Design elements may include: | shape direction form texture brightness dark shadow colour size perspective illusion dimension height angle line. |
Design briefs may be presented by: | drawings illustrations plans model box photographs. |
Event or production requirements may include: | director’s specifications length of the run of the show organisation standards performers’ requirements production schedule relevant organisational and legislative OHS requirements resource constraints venue requirements. |
Copy and paste from the following performance criteria to create an observation checklist for each task. When you have finished writing your assessment tool every one of these must have been addressed, preferably several times in a variety of contexts. To ensure this occurs download the assessment matrix for the unit; enter each assessment task as a column header and place check marks against each performance criteria that task addresses.
Observation Checklist