FT3FAP: Final Production (Acting)

Module code: FT3FAP

Module provider: Film, Theatre and TV; School of Arts and Comm Design

Credits: 40

ECTS credits: 20

Level: 6

When you’ll be taught: Semester 1

Module convenor:

Pre-requisite module(s):

Co-requisite module(s):

Pre-requisite or Co-requisite module(s):

Module(s) excluded: IN TAKING THIS MODULE YOU CANNOT TAKE FT3ATMP OR TAKE FT3ADV (Compulsory)

Placement information: NA

Academic year: 2026/7

Available to visiting students: No

Talis reading list: Yes

Last updated: 25 March 2026

Overview

Module aims and purpose

This capstone module builds on your skills developed in Year 1 and 2 to realise a fully staged production directed by a professional director, performed in front of a public audience. You will form the cast of this production, which will mirror professional processes, applying the acting skills and theories developed throughout the programme.

Module learning outcomes

By the end of the module, it is expected that students will be able to:

1. Utilise accumulated skills, processes and critical understanding to realise a capstone production
2. Develop a sophisticated and critically informed approach to character development and textual interpretation, incorporating nuanced and expressive physical and vocal techniques.
3. Demonstrate a high standard of professional and ethical conduct in a collaborative production environment, contributing effectively as an integral member of an ensemble.
4. Undertake in-depth and advanced research and analysis of relevant texts and theoretical frameworks, situating them within their historical, social, and political contexts.

Module content

This module will focus on creating a production directed by professionals. The production will be fully staged and performed to a public audience.

Students will analyse their character and the text, researching the historical, social and political context as well as engaging with directorial input. They will then develop their own creative, nuanced and expressive approach to characterisation, including building on critical frameworks, concepts and techniques learned throughout the degree. Through in-depth research, students will develop critical reflection on their performance approach in relation to established theories and practitioners and contemporary issues in actor training.

Structure

Teaching and learning methods

Workshops and rehearsals will be the primary mode of teaching in this module. Within these, mini-seminars and lectures will be included to analyse the relevant texts, playwright and/or performance/acting theorists and techniques. Students will be expected to learn and perform a text, directed by professionals. The resulting production will be performed to an audience. Students will need to carry out their own independent research on the script and relevant contexts as well as acting theories that will influence their own creative work and develop their own approach to characterisation. Professional and ethical behaviour will be expected as well as collaborative working within the ensemble.

Study hours

At least 100 hours of scheduled teaching and learning activities will be delivered in person, with the remaining hours for scheduled and self-scheduled teaching and learning activities delivered either in person or online. You will receive further details about how these hours will be delivered before the start of the module.

Please note the independent study hours above are notional numbers of hours; each student will approach studying in different ways. We would advise you to reflect on your learning and the number of hours you are allocating to these tasks.

Semester 1 The hours in this column may include hours during the Christmas holiday period.

Semester 2 The hours in this column may include hours during the Easter holiday period.

Summer The hours in this column will take place during the summer holidays and may be at the start and/or end of the module.

Assessment

Requirements for a pass

Students need to achieve an overall module mark of 40% to pass this module.

Summative assessment

Penalties for late submission of summative assessment

The Support Centres will apply the following penalties for work submitted late:

Assessments with numerical marks

• where the piece of work is submitted after the original deadline (or a DAS-agreed extension as a reasonable adjustment indicated in your Individual Learning Plan): 10% of the total marks available for that piece of work will be deducted from the mark for each calendar day (or part thereof) following the deadline up to a total of three calendar days;
• where the piece of work is submitted up to three calendar days after the original deadline (or a DAS-agreed extension as a reasonable adjustment indicated in you Individual Learning Plan), the mark awarded due to the imposition of the penalty shall not fall below the threshold pass mark, namely 40% in the case of modules at Levels 4-6 (i.e. undergraduate modules for Parts 1-3) and 50% in the case of Level 7 modules offered as part of an Integrated Masters or taught postgraduate degree programme;
• where the piece of work is awarded a mark below the threshold pass mark prior to any penalty being imposed, and is submitted up to three calendar days after the original deadline (or a DAS-agreed extension as a reasonable adjustment indicated in your Individual Learning Plan), no penalty shall be imposed;
• where the piece of work is submitted more than three calendar days after the original deadline (or a DAS-agreed extension as a reasonable adjustment indicated in your Individual Learning Plan): a mark of zero will be recorded.

Assessments marked Pass/Fail

• where the piece of work is submitted within three calendar days of the deadline (or a DAS-agreed extension as a reasonable adjustment indicated in your Individual Learning Plan): no penalty will be applied;
• where the piece of work is submitted more than three calendar days after the original deadline (or a DAS-agreed extension as a reasonable adjustment indicated in your Individual Learning Plan): a grade of Fail will be awarded.

Where a piece of work is submitted late after a deadline which has been revised owing to an extension granted through the Assessment Adjustments policy and process (self-certified or otherwise), it will be subject to the maximum penalty (i.e., considered to be more than three calendar days late). This will also apply when such an extension is used in conjunction with a DAS-agreed extension as a reasonable adjustment.

The University policy statement on penalties for late submission can be found at: https://www.reading.ac.uk/cqsd/-/media/project/functions/cqsd/documents/qap/penaltiesforlatesubmission.pdf

You are strongly advised to ensure that coursework is submitted by the relevant deadline. You should note that it is advisable to submit work in an unfinished state rather than to fail to submit any work.

Formative assessment

Formative assessment is any task or activity which creates feedback (or feedforward) for you about your learning, but which does not contribute towards your overall module mark.

Formative feedback will be provided throughout the module.

Reassessment

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