PERFORMANCE ARTS YEAR TWO

STUDENT PROJECT PROPOSAL

Name of the Student

Rebecca Plotnek
Title of the project/s:
Wet Picnic/Cool Tan Arts Placement
Term: 2
This proposal has four sections to be completed.
These are: Project Proposal, Project Management,
Project Resourcing and Delivery, Project Evaluation.
Please complete these carefully and send any
queries to your Year Tutor on
madeleine.trigg@cssd.ac.uk
Please type the answers in a bold font
SECTION ONE: PROJECT PROPOSAL
Please outline below the aims and scope of your projects.
Please consider what you want to explore artistically, what
the aim of the process is and how it relates to your current
work, development and learning. If you are working on
more than one project, please ensure that you specify
why. (300-500 words)

I currently dont know what area I want to explore as a

practitioner, whether that is writing, or directing, or
something else altogether. But what I do know is the kind of
theatre and performance that I love, and at the very core of
it all what it means and why it matters to me.
Wet Picnics artistic intentions match my own very
well, in their engagement with audience, the way they
actively seek audience participation and the manner in
which they leave their audience uplifted. I would ideally like
to spend part of my placement assisting them, shadowing
the director during the rehearsal process, and observing and
if possible participating in the devising process, to see how
a devising process is structured in a small but professional
theatre company, so that I one day myself can learn from it
and apply it to my own practice.
I am hoping that this placement will enlighten me as to
which direction I want to follow in my future practice.
I am also working on a placement with Cool Tan Arts, a
company that works with adults with mental health issues,
making art for the sake of art. I have experience in working
with students with disabilities involving performance and
have not yet experienced, but would be interested in
working with people with mental health issues. I have the
seen the inherently positive effect that performance and the
creative arts have had on people I have worked with that
have various learning difficulties, ranging from autism, to a
severe stammer. I would like to learn more about the
positive effects the creative arts can have on the individual,
and I think this would help me develop as a practitioner in
terms of engaging my audience on a personal level.

SECTION TWO: PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Please state below the timeline of your project/s. Please
include the start and end date. You have to remember to
allow yourself time to write the assessment for the unit 1,
which we recommend is two weeks at the end of term.
Please ensure this is clearly formatted.
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Extensions are only granted in exceptional and unforeseen circumstances. If, for good reason, you
are unable to complete work for assessment by the deadline, you may ask for an extension. Requests
for extensions may be submitted, but are only granted in exceptional circumstances. Do not rely upon
an extension being agreed. Extension request forms must be submitted at least seven days prior to
the due date. Extension forms are available on Learnzone. Always send your completed form to
Madaleine Trigg and Kate Allen.

Placement with Wet Picnic dates are currently unknown.

Placement with Cool Tan Arts 3 days a week, 27th February
- 19th March
1st week, getting to know members of staff, helping
prep for affordable arts stall
2nd week, a workshop on women in the 21st century
3rd week, possible opportunity for one-to-one
assistance on projects
4th week, evaluation
Due to the nature of the placement, it is difficult to denote
in detail the structure of each week and project, but above is a
basic outline.

Please state below three major milestones of your project.

These can be completion of drafts of work, times at which
this work is sent out for feedback, times at which you are
bringing new collaborators on board and any other major
deadlines.
Feedback from Cool Tan Arts at the end of 2nd week and
fourth week.

Where will the project take place? Please confirm how set
your plans are, for example are these spaces booked or
are these spaces that you will approach? When do you
anticipate finding out if you have them? If you are being
given space please ask for an associated cost so that you
can manage what you are being gifted in kind.
N/A
Please state below the methodology of your project. How
will you approach the process, what will you be working
with, both in terms of resourcing and structure? (3-500
words)
N/A This methodology will be decided
Please state below the collaborators for your project,
their roles and contact details. Please specify why you are
collaborating with each, and what skills they can bring to
the project.

Wet Picnic company that create street performances.

(contact: Becky Mills - info@wetpicnic.com)
Cool Tan Arts (contact: Sarah Way
sarahway@rocketmail.com)
Unconfirmed: Rajni Shah (rajni@rajnishah.com)

for an interview, or even better, to work alongside

her in a project this is not yet clarified.
Each placement and the reasons for collaborating
has been stated above.

SECTION THREE: PROJECT RESOURCING AND DELIVERY

What is the budget of your project/s? Where will this
budget be sourced from, and how will you be managing it?
N/A

What are the major anticipated resources required for

the delivery of your project? How will these be managed?
N/A
What are your contingency plans if any of these
resources are not available? How does this affect your
ability to complete the assessment?
N/A
If you are working with a collaborator in the delivery of
your project, please state below how you will manage this
working relationship.
N/A
Please state below how you will monitor the delivery of
the project.
This might include regular meetings with your creative
team, a mid-way report etc.
Evaluations of my progress, learning and attitude from each
of my contacts midway through, and at the end of each
placement.

Please state below how you will be documenting your

project. This should include a brief statement about
approach to documentation, and a list of four different
types of documentation used in the project.
As always, I will be documenting my work online through a
website, but will also be documenting day-to-day note in my
journal.
-Journal Entries
-Photos
-Feedback from Placement hosts
-Recording of emails sent between placement hosts.

Are there any ethical considerations in your project?

Are you working with a particular community, with a group
of children, in a dangerous area etc? If so, please state
below what these are and how you will ensure a safe
working environment. Please attach Risk Assessments as
necessary.
N/A

The following two questions refer to placements only.

Please tell us more about the host and include a
placement confirmation form with this proposal.
If the placement confirmation form is not yet available
then please supply it as soon as possible, before the
placement begins. Please ensure you have followed the
Placement Learning Policy when arranging this activity.
This document is available on Learnzone. If you are
unsure how to define Placement Activity you can talk to a
tutor or look at the Placement Learning Policy on pages 3
and 4.
No placement confirmations available at this time They will
be supplied before Placements begin.

Does your placement have any potential risks? For

example will you be working in a dangerous environment
or are there ethical considerations about your work with
the host and their audiences? Please tell us more about
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this and if necessary please book a time to talk to us

about additional support. Please do not start any activity
prior to having approval from a tutor. If necessary and
appropriate please submit additional risk assessments
with this proposal. It may be necessary to check in with
tutors by e-mail or telephone once a week if we feel your
project carries particular dangers.
N/A

SECTION FOUR: PROJECT EVALUATION

Please include below your statement of goals. Please offer
us at least five goals that you have for the project and how
you might measure their outcome.

Gain a clearer intention of how I want to engage my

audience in my future work as an artist Learn more about gentle
audience participation from speaking with practitioners who do
this successfully, such as Rajni Shah and Wet Picnic a lot of this
experience will be gained during placement.

Develop handshake performance into a small polished,

portable 1 minute piece rehearsals with Jonas. This can be a
performance or happening where the audience are invited to join
research into the history of the handshake, perhaps experiment
with different forms of this performance: eg. Instructions for
audience members to create their own handshake, inviting
audience to interact with one another which creates a discussion.

Continue to document online and improve presentation

skills in layout and format, gaining more general technical skill in
creating a website.