Number AS90009 Version 3
Subject Reference Drama 1.4
Title Perform an acting role
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Level 1 Credits 4
Subfield Drama
Domain Drama Performance
Assessment Internal
Status Registered Status date 16 November 2007
Planned review date 28 February 2009 Date version published 16 November 2007
This achievement standard involves preparing for and performing an acting role in a scripted production for an audience.
Achievement Criteria
Achievement Achievement with Merit Achievement with
Excellence
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Actively participate in the production process.
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Actively participate in the production process, showing commitment.
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Actively participate in the production process, showing a focused commitment.
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Communicate a role, demonstrating appropriate use of voice, movement, and space.
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Communicate a role, demonstrating appropriate and effective use of voice, movement, and space.
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Communicate a role with impact, demonstrating appropriate, effective and accomplished use of voice, movement, and space.
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Sustain a role throughout performance.
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Sustain a role throughout performance in a convincing way.
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Sustain a role throughout performance in a convincing way and with presence.
Explanatory Notes
1 This achievement standard is derived from The Arts in the New Zealand Curriculum,
Learning Media, Ministry of Education, 2000, and relates to the strands Developing
Practical Knowledge in Drama and Developing Ideas in Drama , Level 6, and Ngā Toi i roto i te Marautanga o Aotearoa, Learning Media, Ministry of Education, 2000.
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2 A scripted production could be an existing script or a devised script, but the student’s assessed performance should be based on a written script. A scripted production could include: excerpts, thematic approaches, full-length plays.
3 An audience will consist of an invited group such as another class, wider school community, family and friends, or any other group for which the production is intended.
4 Preparing for a performance role within the given context could include:
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hot seating
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role on the wall
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character biography
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improvisation outside of text
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exploration of text.
5 For assessment purposes students will be required to record the stages of preparing for and carrying out their acting role by keeping an ongoing collection of evidence in a portfolio from initial discussion to the performance. It should clarify why decisions are made, and may be presented in visual, oral or written form, or any combination of these.
6 Definitions:
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Actively participate in the production process will include:
 attending rehearsals
 learning lines to meet deadlines
 willingness to accept direction
 acknowledgement of group cooperation to enable a production to be realised.
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Commitment includes a consistently positive approach to the production and other members of the production group.
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Appropriate means in keeping with the agreed concept of the production.
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Effective means in keeping with the agreed concept so as to enhance the production.
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Convincing means dramatically viable.
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Accomplished means using techniques with control and skill so as to enhance the production.
Quality Assurance
1 Providers and Industry Training Organisations must be accredited by NZQA before they can register credits from assessment against achievement standards.
2 Accredited providers and Industry Training Organisations assessing against achievement standards must engage with the moderation system that applies to those achievement standards.
Accreditation and Moderation Action Plan (AMAP) reference 0226
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