Course Summary
You can apply for this course as an MA (1 year course) or an MFA (2 year course). The MFA takes one extra year and you can apply by choosing the MFA option when you click 'apply'.
The MA Acting for Stage and Screen is an innovative professional training in stage and screen acting.
Through practice-led learning and research alongside leading industry professionals, you will be immersed in developing and enhancing professional techniques in acting, text, voice, movement and performance for stage and screen.
Our goal is to develop flexible and versatile actor-entrepreneurs who are empowered through mastery of their craft across diverse mediums, r spaces and platforms.
From initial idea through to performance or screening we will encourage and support you in finessing your craft and deepening understanding of your creative, collaboration, performance and research processes.
You will be supported to direct your development and research process to leverage your own personal creative toolkit of skills for a wide range of professional contexts.
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN
Acting for Stage
The aim of this module is to develop advanced integrated creative and technical skills in the context of Acting for Stage:
Adaptive Capacity: Acting Skills Development for Stage-based performance practice
Practice and Enhancement: Skills Development in Context
Interdisciplinary Practice and Skills
Applied Skills and Techniques
Research, Contextualisation and Impact
Acting for Screen
The aim of this module is to develop advanced integrated creative and technical skills in the context of Acting for Screen:
Adaptive Capacity: Acting Skills Development for Screen-based performance practice
Practice and Enhancement: Skills Development in Context
Interdisciplinary Practice and Skills
Applied Skills and Techniques
Research, Contextualisation and Impact
Creative Technologies
Developing and applying technologies to innovate, narrate, capture and disseminate interdisciplinary praxis and its impact:
- Technology as collaborator: e.g. presentation and narration tools, AR, media formats.
- Enhancing learning with technology:
- e.g. communication, networking, Augmented Reality (AR), social platforms.
- Interaction Design: tools, skills and techniques
- Narrating Practice: Digital Storytelling, content capture and representation
Interdisciplinary Intersections
Developing Cross-Disciplinary Coherence:
Distribution and leverage of hard skills and soft skills for professional industrial contexts
Disciplinary rigour: skills, knowledge, understanding pertaining to area/s of student specialism
(e.g. Sound and Music for Media, Games and Theatre, Production and Performance, Acting for Stage and Screen)
Cross-disciplinary Competences and Capabilities:
e.g. Collaboration, Communication, Creativity, Critical Thinking, personal and social capabilities, problem-solving, digital proficiency, cultural, social, emotional, physical intelligence.
Integrative modes, models and frameworks for interdisciplinary praxis, collaboration and research
Creative Project Design
Models, methods and modes for creative project design:
Models of creativity and design: disciplinary and interdisciplinary models, transferring expertise between disciplines, design thinking,
Applied models: e.g. hypothesis driven, experimental, staged, design thinking, iterative, emergent design, innovation practice, prototyping
Creative Innovation Project: conceptualisation and design, implementation and leadership models, collaboration methodologies
Project design: design principles, design thinking, (rationale, aims, objectives, methodologies, resources, tools, collaborators, timescale, scope)
Leadership and Facilitation: change processes, innovation processes
Organisational Context: distribution of expertise, climate, culture
Dissertation / Final Project
Research and development
Research Methodologies and Project Proposal
Contextual and Ethical Awareness
Interdisciplinarity and Transdisciplinary intersections
Literature Review
Project Review and Evaluation
Interactive Portfolio Development and Digital Storytelling
Additional Modules of the MFA (Master of Fine Arts) Degree
Research Praxis
Applied Praxis and Research Methodologies – Distributed Expertise: Distributed Learning
Research Base: establishing context, sources and parameters for research
Research Skills: methodologies, processes and frameworks
Contextual Awareness: distribution of expertise, climate and culture
Research Capture and Dissemination
Research Ethics: establishing ethical research practices and processes
Meta-Praxis
Context and Student-specific live applied project
Project Design Implementation, Facilitation and Leadership
Interdisciplinary Interface and Interaction
Modelling Reflexive Practice
Modelling Transversal Skills Development
Evaluative Case Study
Research Capture and Dissemination: Interactive Portfolio and Presentation of Praxis
HOW YOU'LL LEARN
This course suite will develop knowledge, cognitive and practical skills and experience to develop dynamic and adaptable actors for stage and screen, who can work across traditional and non-traditional contexts.
You will develop advanced technical and creative skills relevant to your specialist focus within professional practice.
Core skills will be developed through collaboration and in-context application across all programme pathways, and industry specific skills will be developed and applied within the industrial context of the student’s workplace, placement context, or chosen community / professional setting.
The course focuses upon leading creative and collaborative projects that are designed and implemented by students, supported by teaching staff and industry mentors, to create impact for students and the publics, communities and collaborators with which they are working.
Study will be practice-led, with a focus on developing a range of research skills and models for creative practice, applied in diverse professional contexts. You will also develop contextual awareness and responsiveness, examining the influence and impact of your work for and upon the many contextual layers interconnected with it, including but not limited to the social, cultural, historical, economic, technological, environmental, and ethical.
Project development, outcomes, and impact will be captured and disseminated and assessed by:
Interactive Portfolios
Literature Reviews
Critical Evaluation
Research and Development Repositories
Presentation, workshops, and seminars
Reflective Journals
Collaborative practice-led research
Assessment Tasks and Portfolios
Assessment frequently includes the creation of portfolios, comprising production reports, written reports, extended essays, and live practical assessments relevant to disciplinary and interdisciplinary practice.
Portfolio content will depend on the module assessment task in which the portfolio features, consisting of a wide variety of mediums from digital content, such as video and audio recordings, or digital images, which capture the production and performance/ media of practical work and technical outcomes. Portfolios will be digital documents presented online using web publishing tools.
Details of the requirements and content for portfolios and assessment tasks will be provided in module guides for each module. To allow for diversity and inclusivity across course clusters, it will be appropriate, based on relevant course subject, to further stipulate the form of assessment required i.e. artefacts and performance/ media pieces captured as evidence digitally and or non-digital formats (e.g. published printed book), which may subsequently be documented digitally (i.e. coursework portfolio).
Portfolios will take the form of digital and physical documents presented online using web publishing tools and or physical portfolios that have been printed and curated into a portable portfolio.
From this practice, you will demonstrate and reflect upon the process of creating and preparing a final professional body of work for professional display, further development in production and or industry.
Who teaches this course:
- Tristan Parkes
- Juliet Knight
- Dominic Hingorani
- Ed HughesYOUR FUTURE CAREER
YOUR FUTURE CAREER
Future Careers may include:
Professional Stage Actor
Professional Screen Actor
Director: Media and/or Stage
Creative Producer: Media and/or Stage Production
Interdisciplinary Arts Project Leadership
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