NZQA registered unit standard
28005 version 2
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Title
Stage manage a production
Level
3
Credits
6
Purpose
People credited with this unit standard are able to stage
manage a production
Classification
Performing Arts General > Performing Arts Technology
Available grade
Achieved, Merit, and Excellence
Entry information
Recommended skills
and knowledge
Unit 26691, Assist in a performing arts production by
undertaking a specified production role; and Unit 27702, Take
responsibility for a production area of a performance.
Criteria for Merit
Stage management tasks are undertaken efficiently by:
 behaving in a well-organised manner;
 clearly communicating requirements during pre-rehearsal,
rehearsal, production and post-production.
Criteria for Excellence
Stage management tasks are undertaken skilfully by:
 using ingenuity and well-developed communication skills to
overcome any difficulties during pre-rehearsal, rehearsal,
production and post-production to enable a compelling
performance.
Explanatory notes
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This unit standard can be awarded with an Achieved, Merit or Excellence. For the
Achieved grade to be awarded, the outcome must be achieved as specified in the
outcome statement. For Merit or Excellence grades to be awarded, the candidate
must meet the Merit or Excellence criteria specified above.
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Candidates being assessed against this unit standard must demonstrate safe
working practices at all times. These may include – safe working practices in
situations involving – working at heights, working with electricity, using certified
equipment, chemical hazards, lifting, securing equipment safely, replacing and
storing equipment, use of tools, use of supplied safety equipment, following
manufacturer's instructions, housekeeping. Evidence of this may be provided by, for
example, a teacher/tutor attestation or candidate’s reflective statement. A useful
reference for safe working practice is the Entertainment Technology New Zealand
publication A Guide for Safe Working Practices in the New Zealand Theatre and
Entertainment Industry, 2011, which can be accessed at http://www.etnz.org.
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Definitions
Maintaining means taking responsibility for aspects of a production in order to ensure
that they occur. This may be achieved through delegation to assistants or crew with
responsibility for a production area e.g. wardrobe assistant.
Production means a whole or substantial piece; or range of performance(s) combined
into a show. The production must be of sufficient time and complexity to require prerehearsal, rehearsal, production and post-production activities. The performance(s)
may include – dance, kapa haka, scripted drama, music performance, moving image
production, physical theatre, devised work, performance art.
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Legislation
Health and Safety in Employment Act 1992.
Outcomes and evidence requirements
Outcome 1
Stage manage a production.
Evidence requirements
1.1
Pre-rehearsal stage management tasks are undertaken according to the
requirements of the production.
Range
1.2
pre-rehearsal stage management tasks may include – preparing
and distributing cast and crew contact list, marking out set plan on
rehearsal room floor, arranging rehearsal props, preparing prompt
script;
a minimum of three tasks are required.
Rehearsal stage management tasks are undertaken according to the
requirements of the production.
Range
rehearsal stage management tasks include but are not limited to –
scheduling, organising and communicating technical and dress
rehearsals; maintaining rehearsal room, costumes, props and
equipment; prompting; notating blocking in the prompt script;
communicating any design changes to relevant personnel.
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1.3
Production stage management tasks are undertaken according to the
requirements of the production.
Range
1.4
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production stage management tasks include but are not limited
to – calls, supervising backstage crew, maintaining backstage
area and performance elements, completing and circulating
performance reports.
Post-production stage management tasks are undertaken according to the
requirements of the production.
Range
post-production stage management tasks include but are not
limited to – overseeing the clearing and securing of rehearsal
room, backstage area, dressing room, green room; overseeing the
return of set, costumes, props and equipment to source.
Planned review date
31 December 2017
Status information and last date for assessment for superseded versions
Process
Version Date
Last Date for Assessment
Registration
1
18 April 2013
N/A
Revision
2
17 July 2014
N/A
Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR) reference
0226
This CMR can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do.
Please note
Providers must be granted consent to assess against standards (accredited) by NZQA,
before they can report credits from assessment against unit standards or deliver courses
of study leading to that assessment.
Industry Training Organisations must be granted consent to assess against standards by
NZQA before they can register credits from assessment against unit standards.
Providers and Industry Training Organisations, which have been granted consent and
which are assessing against unit standards must engage with the moderation system that
applies to those standards.
Requirements for consent to assess and an outline of the moderation system that applies
to this standard are outlined in the Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR). The
CMR also includes useful information about special requirements for organisations wishing
to develop education and training programmes, such as minimum qualifications for tutors
and assessors, and special resource requirements.
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Comments on this unit standard
Please contact National Qualifications Services nqs@nzqa.govt.nz if you wish to suggest
changes to the content of this unit standard.
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