BA (HONS) ACTING FOR STAGE AND SCREEN
Validated by De Montfort University
BA (HONS) ACTING FOR STAGE AND SCREEN
Location: Guildford, Surrey
Course Duration: 3 Years
Qualification Received: BA (Hons) Acting for Stage and Screen
Course Type: Full Time
University Code: D26
Acting Course Code: W411
BA (Hons) Acting for Stage and Screen is validated by De Montfort University. To apply for this course you will need to have 96 UCAS points (new tariff) and be over the age of 18 before the 1st September.
You MUST apply for this course through both our Audition System on our website and also through UCAS.
Performance Preparation Academy is an inclusive and lively community of performers, industry practitioners and facilitators.
We champion a safe and supportive working environment, promoting a strong ensemble ethic whilst allowing individuality and identity.
Our students enjoy long lasting personal and professional relationships formed while closely exploring a wide range of learning experiences, rehearsal-based projects and public performances.
We are dedicated to individual development and our team of industry-experienced tutors deliver a rigorous and innovative training programme designed to prepare graduates for today’s industry with a dual focus on both Stage and Screen.
Reflection on professional practice is an empowering aspect of the student experience and in the third year your research project allows you to choose a subject matter of personal interest.
In addition, you will have access to the PPA Agency, which has enviable industry links and may promote graduates into the Acting world with access to agents, casting directors and potential employers. Where possible, we encourage students to develop industry links via public performances, auditions, work-based learning opportunities and the Industry Showcase.
ACTING
VOICE AND MOVEMENT
These modules will be an exploration and development of your vocal and physical skills as a performer through the disciplines of movement, voice and singing. In the following classes you will learn how to develop and maintain your voice and body as an instrument, enabling you to serve the requirements of industry and performance:
- Actor’s Movement
- Voice and Text
- Speech and Accent
- Singing
PROJECTS
You will explore and analyse your role as an actor through ensemble rehearsals and via the exploration of texts leading into performances. This module consists of performances in which you will be expected to assimilate and utilise the practical and analytical skills gained from your other modules. With assistance and careful guidance by your tutor/director, you will collaborate on a text from rehearsal through to final performance.
VOICE AND MOVEMENT
These modules will be an exploration and development of your vocal and physical skills as a performer through the disciplines of movement, voice and singing. In the following classes you will learn how to develop and maintain your voice and body as an instrument, enabling you to serve the requirements of industry and performance:
- Actor’s Movement
- Voice and Text
- Speech and Accent
- Singing
CRITICAL ACTOR
You will develop your understanding of approaches to analysing performance and also learn to create research informed practical work. You will develop key industry skills including:
- Excellent time management and organisational skills to manage your deadlines and research tasks
- The ability to communicate ideas verbally, in writing and practically
- Professional etiquette so you work collaboratively and professionally with peers.
You will broaden your industry specific vocabulary and start to build your knowledge of different theoretical perspectives, histories, and genres within your specialist creative field. You will receive guidance on how to present, write, perform and research at degree level.
CRITICAL ACTOR
You will develop your understanding of approaches to analysing performance and also learn to create research informed practical work. You will develop key industry skills including:
- Excellent time management and organisational skills to manage your deadlines and research tasks
- The ability to communicate ideas verbally, in writing and practically
- Professional etiquette so you work collaboratively and professionally with peers.
You will broaden your industry specific vocabulary and start to build your knowledge of different theoretical perspectives, histories, and genres within your specialist creative field. You will receive guidance on how to present, write, perform and research at degree level.
Public performances and short filM
In your final year you will be led by a professional director in acting and ensemble rehearsals and this process will lead into public performances. Your public performances actively encourage you to assimilate and demonstrate the professional and practical skills you have learnt up to this point.
In the short film project, which will take place in your final year at PPA, you will gain valuable experience of the expectations of industry professionals and learn how to sustain a performance over the course of a film shoot. You will collaborate with a professional director and creative team. The film will be presented to an audience at a screening. Studio and location shooting will reflect the working environment often encountered on entering the British industry as a professional actor
PPA AWARD
At PPA we also provide you with the unique opportunity to compliment, expand and inform this learning by supporting you with PPA Award classes.
These classes may include: Stage Combat, Actors Dance, Fringe Show Development, Physical Theatre and Specialist Acting.
These classes are in addition to and timetabled around your core modules but are not associated with the BA Hons Degree.
PPA AWARD
At PPA we also provide you with the unique opportunity to compliment, expand and inform this learning by supporting you with PPA Award classes.
These classes may include: Stage Combat, Actors Dance, Fringe Show Development, Physical Theatre and Specialist Acting.
These classes are in addition to and timetabled around your core modules but are not associated with the BA Hons Degree.
FEES AND FUNDING
Please see our Term Dates and Fees page for more details on funding.