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Title
Develop skills in scriptwriting for live theatre
Level
3
Credits
8
Purpose
People credited with this unit standard are able to: explore
scriptwriting; explore society and human behaviour for
scriptwriting ideas; and write script for a workshop presentation.
Classification
Drama > Drama Creation
Available grade
Achieved
Explanatory notes
None.
Outcomes and evidence requirements
Outcome 1
Explore scriptwriting.
Evidence requirements
1.1
Exploration illustrates scriptwriting conventions.
Range
dialogue, stage directions, script formatting.
1.2
Exploration evidences staging practicalities consistent with theatre practice.
1.3
Exploration recreates spoken language.
Range
1.4
colloquial use, style.
Exploration identifies dramatic structures.
Range
theme, character, scenarios, tension, climax, denouement,
resolution.
Outcome 2
Explore society and human behaviour for scriptwriting ideas.
Evidence requirements
2.1
Exploration records observations of human behaviour.
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Range
2.2
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character traits, actions, speech including dialect; motivation,
interaction.
Exploration records observations of social differences.
Range
may include - class and status, gender, race.
Outcome 3
Write script for a workshop presentation.
Range
scene or scenes between 5 and 10 minutes in duration.
Evidence requirements
3.1
Script is formatted for workshopping in written text, and with an awareness of
dramatic conventions.
3.2
Workshopped script enables performance idea or concept to be realised in
dialogue and action.
Replacement information
This unit standard and AS90609 have been replaced by
AS91513.
This unit standard is expiring. Assessment against the standard must take place by
the last date for assessment set out below.
Status information and last date for assessment for superseded versions
Process
Version Date
Last Date for Assessment
Registration
1
24 February 1998
31 December 2016
Revision
2
18 August 2000
31 December 2016
Revision
3
12 September 2002
31 December 2016
Review
4
4 December 2012
31 December 2016
Rollover
5
20 March 2014
31 December 2016
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.
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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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