UAL Level 3 Diploma in Music Performance and Production

The Collaboration - Unit 8

Unit 8 – Collaborative Music Performance Project

Hand Out Date: 26th MARCH 2024

Hand In Date: 24th MAY 2024
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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

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

Good understanding and

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

Thorough and sustained Independently identified, thorough

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

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

Effective communication of Accomplished and professional

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