Course Overview
This BA (Hons) Acting for Film degree offers an intense focus on developing your specialist skills in screen acting and the opportunity to combine this with your choice of spotlight skills. Spotlight skills vary from year to year but have included street fighting, horse riding, period and social dance, and acting through song. You will cultivate your own bespoke acting approach from an introduction to a broader range of acting practitioners such as Stanislavski, Hagen, Adler, and Meisner, alongside the camera technique skills necessary for convincing, truthful camera performance.
You will work on campus and on location, and gain experience in acting on small and larger-scale film productions as you grow your knowledge of other aspects of film and screen acting and its history. You will develop your understanding of the film and television industry and how this contributes to and reflects contemporary culture throughout your studies.
Key Facts
- Full-time- 3 years
- Start Date- September
Entry requirements
- UCAS – 96-122 tariff points
- A-Levels- BCC-CCC
- BTEC/Cambridge Technical- DMM-MMM
- IB- 28 points
- IELTS- 6.0 overall with no element lower than 5.5.
Career
This BA (Hons) Acting for Film degree will prepare you for a range of careers in the industry.
As performers, past graduates have worked in:
- Commercial film production
- Independent film production
- Commercial television
- Music video
- Voice over
- Corporate media
- The games industry
- Website video production
Students on BA (Hons) Acting for Film are also eligible for Spotlight UK membership, which offers a variety of industry-specific benefits to support students to successfully access the industry, such as discounted graduate membership, representation by Spotlight (searchable by casting directors and agents in a dedicated ‘Spotlight Graduates’ section), invitation to participate in events program with exclusive priority booking, access to the dedicated one to one career advice sessions and Spotlight monthly tailored newsletters.
Course Content
- Screen Acting Skills 1 (Acting and Camera Technique)
- Introduction to Film Industry
- Iconoclasts to Icons (Key Figures and Movements in Screen Acting History)
- Spotlight Skills 1
- Spotlight Skills 2
- Film Story (Genres and Storytelling)
- Through the Lens (Examining Great Screen Performances)
- Screen Acting Skills 3
- Spotlight Short Film (Personal Short Film Project)
- Optional Modules: The Four Hander Project, or Classics on Film and Film Combat
