Workbooks and Assessment Tasks

Acting UOC Assessment Tasks

• ASSESSMENT TASKS VU21840 Expand skills for auditions
• ASSESSMENT TASKS VU21841 Expand script knowledge and performance skills
• ASSESSMENT TASKS VU21842 Extend acting techniques

BSBDIV301 Work effectively with diversity

• BSBDIV301 Work effectively with diversity AMG
• BSBDIV301 Work effectively with diversity WORKBOOK

CUFIND401A Provide services on a freelance basis

• CUFIND401A Provide services on a freelance basis AMG
• CUFINDA401A Provide services on a freelance basis WORKBOOK
• Example Invoice
• Equity Minimums 2019

• FNSCUS401 Participate in negotiations AMG
• FNSCUS401 Participate in negotiations WORKBOOK

VU21843 Write the script

• Storyboard Template Portrait
• Storyboard Template
• VU21843 Write the script AMG
• VU21843 Write the script WORKBOOK

Elective Workbooks and Extra Resources

CUFDRT602A Audition and select performers

• CUFDRT602A Audition and select performers AMG
• CUFDRT602A Audition and select performers WORKBOOK
• Cast and Crew Call Sheet
• Cast Booking Sheet
• Cast Deal Structure Feature
• Cast Deal Structure TV
• Cast Info Checklist
• Cast List Template
• Casting Call Example
• Casting Information Handout
• Continuity Logsheet

CUFMUP401A Design, apply and remove makeup

• CUFMUP401A Design, apply and remove makeup AMG
• CUFMUP401A Design, apply and remove makeup WORKBOOK
• Example Image
• MAC Face Template
• MAC Face with Writing
• Makeup Handout Booklet
• Makeup Health

Learners Manual

• Learners Manual Year Two 2021

Safety

• Fremantle Media Safety Induction
• 2004 Film and TV Safety
• Industry Safety
• Mandatory Code of Practice for the Employment of Children in Entertainment NOV2011

Speech Exercises and Scripts

The following are just some different accent work scripts, speech exercises and other sonnets, scripts and poetry you can use to practice reading aloud, pronunciation and work for cold reads in auditions.

Monologues

• Angie
• Ebenezer
• Catching Fire (Katniss Everdeen)
• Looking for Alibrandi (Jacob)
• Molly
  
• The 100

Duologues

• Andy and Mark
• Ballet Audition
• Fergus McPhail
• Hungry
• Nell and Wendy
• Ocean Girl
• Paradise Beach
• Susan and Felicity
• The 100
• The Flying Doctors
• Turbo and Nipper

More Character Scenes

• Do You Want to Know a Secret?
• Halfway Across the Galaxy and Turn Left
• Late for School
• Muriel’s Wedding
• Sam, Sue, Tess and Sasha

Accent Work Scripts

• A Man About the House – John Perry – Italian
•  A Song of Sixpence – Ian Hay – Scotch
• Alibi – Agatha Christie – French
• Devonshire Cream – Eden Phillpotts – Devonshire
• Heaven Charing Cross – Aubrey Danvers-Walker – Cockney
• Land of My Fathers – Jack Jones – Welsh
• More Accent Plays
• The Adding Machine – Elmer Rice – American

Novel Excerpts

• A Tale of Two Cities -Charles DickensAlice in Wonderland – Carroll Lewis
• Alice in Wonderland – Carroll Lewis
• Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
• Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
• The Death of Tomorrow – Unknown
• The Iron Man – Ted Hughes
• Under Milk Wood – Dylan Thomas

Poetry

• A Christmas Carol – Fred Cogswell
• Broom – Basil Dowling
• Catch Rhymes
• Chester Carol – Unknown
• Christ Child – Henry Treece
• Click Go The Shears – Rolf Harris
• Conform – Unknown
• Crow Hill – Ted Hughes
• Daffodils – William Wordsworth
• Esther the Witch – Susan Burke, Pauline Kember, Lynton York
• Gus The Theatre Cat – T. S. Eliot
• If – Rudyard Kipling
• Knight and Lady – Unknown
• Last Snow – Andrew Young
• Macavity (Cats) – T. S. Elliot
• Mary’s Carol – Ted Walker
• Moonless Darkness Stands Between – Gerad Manley Hopkins
• My Country – Dorothy Mackellar
• Night Shapes – Paddy Kinsale
• Out Here on my Own – Unknown
• Overheard On A Saltmarsh – Harold Monro
• Ozymandias – Percy Bysshe Shelley
• Prayer Before Birth – Louis Macneice
• Rain From Nowhere – Murray Hartin
• Sink Song – J. A. Lindon
• Sister Stephanie and the Gang – Doug MacLeod
• Sleet – Norman MacCaig
• Snake – David Herbert Lawrence
• Snow – Edward Thomas
• Snow – W. H. Longfellow
• Snow in the Suburbs – Thomas Hardy
• Snow Overnight – Stephen Roxburgh Longwill
• Somewhere – Unknown
• Spider – Unknown
• Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening – Robert Frost
• Thaw – Edward Thomas
• The Akond of Swat – Edward Lear
• The Dark Stable – Patric Dickinson
• The Hag – Robert Herrick
• The Jackdaw of Rheims – Richard Harris Barham
• The Journey of Magi – T. S. Eliot
• The King’s Spectacles – James Gibdon
• The Last of His Tribe – Henry Kendall
• The Listeners – Walter De La Mare
• The Naming of Cats – T. S. Elliot
• The Owl and the Pussy Cat – Edward Lear
• The Oxen – Thomas Hardy
• The Raven – Edgar Allan Poe
• The Ride-By-Nights – Walter De La Mare
• The Rose – Unknown
• The Saucy Sailor – English Folksong
• The Snowflake – Walter De La Mare
• The Witches Song – William Shakespeare
• The Yak – Jack Prelutsky

Scripts 

• A Man For All Seasons – Sir Thomas More
• A Midsummer Night’s Dream – William Shakespeare – Scene 1, Act 1
• A Midsummer Night’s Dream – William Shakespeare – Scene 2, Act 3
• Blood Wedding – Federico García Lorca 2
• Blood Wedding – Federico García Lorca
• Bushfire – Unknown
• Coriolanus – William Shakespeare
• Female Monologues
• Hamlet – William Shakespeare – Scene 1, Act 2
• Hamlet – William Shakespeare – Scene 2, Act 2
• Helen and Jane – Unknown  
• Henry VIII – William Shakespeare
• Julius Cæsar – William Shakespeare
• King Arthur – The Wizard of Oz
• King John – William Shakespeare
• Macbeth – The Witches – William Shakespeare
• Macbeth – William Shakespeare
• Mourning Becomes Elektra – Eugene O’Heill
• Our Town – Emily – Thorton Wilder
• Prometheus Bound – Aeschylus
• Prometheus Bound – Prometheus – Aeschylus
• Somebody Speak To Me – Unknown
• The Diary of Anne Frank – Francis Goorich and Albert Hackett
• The Merchant of Venice, Duologue – William Shakespeare
• The Merchant of Venice, Female Monologue – William Shakespeare
• The Merchant of Venice, Male Monologue – William Shakespeare
• The Tempest – Miranda – William Shakespeare
• The Tempest – Prospero – William Shakespeare
• The Twelfth Night – William Shakespeare
• The Witches – David Wood
• Top Silk – David Williamson
• What’s the Buzz – Jesus Christ Super Star

Sonnets

• Sonnet 18 – William Shakespeare
• Sonnet 32 – William Shakespeare
• Sonnet 33 – William Shakespeare
• Sonnet 34 – William Shakespeare
• Sonnet 35 – William Shakespeare
• Sonnet 36 – William Shakespeare
• Sonnet 109 – William Shakespeare

Speech Training

• A Light Night
• Articulation Exercises
• Breath Control
• I Have a Dream – Martin Luther King
• Sh and S Sounds
• Speech Exercises
• The Basics
• Tongue Twisters
• Tongue, Jaw and Palate Exercises
• Vowel Sounds
• Word Practice
• Vocal Exercises
• Scripts for Accents