Application
Stage managers apply the skills and knowledge outlined in this unit. 'Calling' the production involves making announcements via two-way communication devices, including verbal cues to technicians and performers. This unit has linkages to a range of other stage management units, and combined assessment and/or training with those units may be appropriate, e.g.: CUESMT09B Plot and rehearse cues CUESMT06C Plot technical requirements from scores CUESMT05C Stage manage the production/event. |
Elements and Performance Criteria
ELEMENT | PERFORMANCE CRITERIA |
1. Prepare to make calls | 1.1. Accurately interpret production call reference material to determine call requirements 1.2. Determine the appropriate time to make various calls 1.3. Check that communication equipment is fully functioning and take action to restore equipment to working order where appropriate 1.4. Make necessary changes to calls and update call reference material accurately |
2. Make announcements | 2.1. Make appropriate checks prior to making public announcements 2.2. Make clear and accurate public announcements in a manner that promotes goodwill with the audience 2.3. Make clear and accurate backstage time call announcements to ensure the production/event operates on time 2.4. Promptly identify and communicate any changes to the production/event |
3. Call the production/event | 3.1. Correctly and sensitively call the production/event using call reference material appropriately 3.2. Provide clear, audible and accurate information and cues at the correct time and in the correct order 3.3. Receive and interpret cues and make necessary announcements in response 3.4. Promptly identify problem situations and respond quickly with appropriate action to minimise negative impact |
Required Skills
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Required skills |
effective communication techniques in relation to calling the technical aspects of a production, including the differing needs of various production personnel contingency management techniques in relation to the need for timely adjustments and interventions to maintain quality |
Required knowledge |
typical format and content of production/event call material the role of the calling process within a live production/event general understanding of how communication equipment works and ability to identify faults broad understanding of artistic and technical elements of the production event such as staging, lighting and sound elements |
Evidence Required
The Evidence Guide provides advice on assessment and must be read in conjunction with the performance criteria, required skills and knowledge, range statement and the Assessment Guidelines for the Training Package. | |
Overview of assessment | |
Critical aspects for assessment and evidence required to demonstrate competency in this unit | The following evidence is critical to the judgement of competence in this unit: correct interpretation of production/event call material ability to provide clear and accurate announcements close monitoring of the performance/production/event and ability to keep time so that cues and announcements are provided at the appropriate time. |
Context of and specific resources for assessment | The assessment context must provide for: practical demonstration of skills through the calling of at least two different productions/events that comprise multiple technical and performance elements interaction with and involvement of a production and performance team to whom calls would be provided presence of time pressures involved in providing announcements and verbal cues. |
Method of assessment | Assessment may incorporate a range of methods to assess practical skills and the application of essential underpinning knowledge, and might include: review of call notes prepared by the candidate evaluation of a production/event which the candidate is responsible for calling project activity to allow the candidate to interpret and make changes to production/event call materials role plays involving production and artistic team members for the relay and receipt of the calls written or oral questioning to test knowledge of artistic and technical requirements of the production/event review of portfolios of evidence and third party workplace reports of on-the-job performance by the candidate. Assessment methods should closely reflect workplace demands and the needs of particular groups (e.g. people with disabilities, and people who may have literacy or numeracy difficulties such as speakers of languages other than English, remote communities and those with interrupted schooling). |
Guidance information for assessment | Assessment of this unit requires access to: production/event call material on which to base the announcements industry current communication equipment used to call a production/event an event/production venue, eg live theatre, convention centre. |
Range Statement
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. | |
Production call reference material may be: | incorporated with prompt reference material, cue sheet, running sheet, script or score notated production running list/sheet scripted unscripted |
Appropriate checks prior to making announcements may include: | communication with back-of-house personnel communication with front-of-house personnel physical checks of the venue |
Public announcements may include: | advice of changes to the advertised artists/performers advice of changes to the performance backstage calls and announcements changes to programmed event/performance cues and standbys emergency announcements emergency evacuation advice front-of-house calls time/count-down calls for commencement of the production/event |
Backstage time calls/verbal cues may relate to: | cues for action performers standby cues technical elements |
Cues may be: | cue for action standby cues |
Sectors
Unit sector |
Competency Field
Media and entertainment production - stage management |
Employability Skills
This unit contains employability skills. |
Licensing Information
Not applicable.