UAL Level 3 Diploma in Music Performance and Production

The Collaboration - Unit 8

Unit 8 – Collaborative Music Performance Project

Hand Out Date: 28th MARCH 2023

Hand In Date: 26th MAY 2023
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The Brief: Collaborative Music Performance Project
Choose a specialism and work towards an agreed final project. Consider the skills,
knowledge acquired, and the understanding you developed through the previous units.
Decide on a project to make use of these that will challenge you, while allowing you to
explore activities of interest in greater depth.

You will be sent a Wix template to re-design and upload your work for the following
tasks:
Task 1 – Proposal
Task 2 – Research and Planning
Task 3 – Carrying Out A Production
Task 4 – Analysis and Presentation

Task 1 – Proposal*
(Rationale, Project Concept, Evaluation - see UAL guidance below)

Create a rationale, a project proposal and evaluation plan for a collaborative project
that demonstrates a range of newly acquired skills. Projects could include: Art
installation; live performance; music for the moving image; multi-media sound and music;
specialist music recording project.

Task 2 – Research and Planning

Undertake research into your chosen specialist area and justify how this will be used
within project. Create a detailed action plan, with specific aims, that allows you to carry out
the process against a timeframe.

Task 3 – Carrying Out a Production

Work in collaboration towards a joint project. Consider the best ways you can use the
practical skills you’ve developed and ensure there is appropriate evidence of the process.

Task 4 - Presentation and Analysis

Show analysis of the project with regular evaluations against aims, and present your
finished work using appropriate media. Use the accompanying Wix site to know what is
expected of the presentation.

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*UAL guidance. The following MUST be completed.

Rationale (100 words)

This section provides you
 with an opportunity to reflect on, review and summarise
 your progress and
achievements through the fi
rst seven units, and the knowledge, skills and understanding you have
acquired. What you know now, and what it means to you, compared with what you knew and could do

before you started the course, and how this has influenced your choice of pathway and your project
proposal.

Project Concept (200 words)

This section provides an opportunity for you to clearly explain the concept and aims of your project,
the research and ideas that will support
 its development, what you anticipate producing, the levels and
types of resources that you will need and an indication of the form in which you will complete and
present your final realisation within the allocated timescale.

Evaluation (50 words)

This section provides an opportunity for you to explain how you will reflect on, and evaluate, your work,
as both
 an on-going activity and at t
he conclusion of the project. You should describe how you intend
to record your decision-making and how
 you will document changes
 to your ideas as work progresses.
The evaluation should be referenced to your stated aims and be reflective and analytical rather then
a description of actions completed. When working in collaboration with others you should comment on
how this may impact either positively
 or adversely and steps you can take to minimise disruption to
your own progress.

Project Action Plan and Timetable

This section provides you with an opportunity to outline your planning and organisation over a period
of weeks and the activities you will need to carry out in order to successfully complete your project
within the agreed timeframe. It is important that you consider how you will balance ambition, time and
realism in the realisation of the project.
This should include what you are going to do, how you will do it and by when. The more time and
thought you give to planning your project the more successful it is likely to be. Remember to include
time taken to visit sources; sourcing materials, questionnaires, access to workshops, tutorial and peer
group feedback opportunities and where you will incorporate independent study. In a collaborative
project individual responsibilities and contributions will need to be clearly identifiable.

Proposed Research Sources and Bibliography

This section provides an opportunity to record the initial research sources, both primary and
secondary, that you intend to use. Your sources of research should be as wide as possible, including
libraries, museums and galleries, books, theatre/ film/video, magazines, TV/radio programmes,
websites etc. Where appropriate you should use the Harvard system of referencing. The bibliography
should be continuously updated as the project progresses.

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Learning Outcomes

Unit 8

1. Understand the requirements of a collaborative music performance project.

1.1 Analyse the requirements and parameters of a collaborative music performance
project

2. Be able to use research methods to inform the roles and relationships in a

collaborative project.
2.1 Review a range of research sources to support the production of a music project.
2.2 Interpret research to develop ideas and effectively communicate creative
proposals.

3. Be able to use skills, knowledge and understanding in the completion of a

collaborative music performance project.
3.1 Demonstrate the ability to contribute to the planning, organisation and
development of a collaborative performance.

3.2 Apply practical skills, knowledge and understanding to complete a collaborative

music performance project within an agreed time-frame.

4. Be able to evaluate own and others contribution to a collaborative music

performance project.
4.1 Critically evaluate a collaborative music performance project against the agreed
requirements and parameters.

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THE MATRIX
Assignments will cover some of the different pillars of the matrix. Unit 8 will cover all of them. Refer to these
when completing all assignments.

Fail Pass
Merit Distinction

Work submitted fails to Work submitted meets

Work submitted meets all Work submitted meets all
meet one or more of the all of the assessment
assessment criteria and is assessment criteria and is of a
assessment criteria and is criteria and is of a
of a high standard very high standard
of a poor standard satisfactory standard

Understanding of Good understanding and

Comprehensive understanding
Limited understanding of subject context used knowledge of subject
and knowledge of subject context
subject context, lacking appropriately to make context used to make
Context used to communicate complex
clarity in aims and judgments, describe sound judgments,
concepts, articulate ambitions and
purpose. aims and clarify articulate ambitions and
clarify purpose.
purpose. clarify purpose.

Thorough and sustained Independently identified,

Sufficient relevant research and investigation thorough and sustained research
Little or no evidence
information has been of relevant sources, and investigation of a range of
presented or information
Research gathered, documented interpretation and relevant sources, insightful
does not relate sufficiently
and used in the synthesis of information interpretation and synthesis of
to task.
development of ideas. used to inform, support information used to inform,
and develop ideas. support and develop ideas.

Adequate range of
processes, skills and Consistent and In depth understanding and
Limited range of knowledge appropriate processes, aesthetic awareness, imaginative
processes demonstrated, demonstrated. skills and knowledge and flexible processes, skills and
Practical Skills
judgement and execution Competent execution applied to extend enquiry knowledge applied in extensive
of techniques is poor. and application of and develop creative enquiry to develop creative
techniques used to solutions. solutions.
develop ideas.

Effective communication
Accomplished and professional
Clearly communicated of analysis and
Insufficient evidence of communication of perceptive
evidence of valid interpretation,
ongoing evaluation, lack of analysis and interpretation,
Evaluation evaluation and realistic independent synthesis of
or only basic analysis and demonstrating clarity and
And Reflection analysis independently information and
little or no justification for sophistication in thinking and
used to inform and application of reasoned
ideas. maturity in decision making to
develop ideas. decision making to inform
progress ideas.
development of ideas.