Acting (Creative Performance Practice) - 2 Year Accelerated Degree
Entry requirements
Pass Access with 30 Level 3 credits at Merit and GCSE English (Language or Literature) at grade C/4 or above.
GCSE/National 4/National 5
GCSE in English grade C/4 or above
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)
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This will be from at least one full Level 3 A level or BTEC. AS Levels are only counted towards your UCAS tariff in combination with a Full Level 3 qualification. We welcome applicants who do not match standard entry requirements but who can demonstrate ability to study this subject at university level and can evidence relevant experience.
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About this course
This is a two-year BA (Hons) degree providing intensive conservatoire-style actor training with up to 30 hours a week contact time designed for the modern stage and screen actor and creative practitioner. The course is delivered at The Sue Townsend Theatre, our professional studios/theatre at Leicester College. The programme is validated by De Montfort University.
Delivered by a highly experienced faculty of staff, our innovative studies and skills-based modules are designed to train you as an actor but to also explore a wider creative practice to suit the current artistic world. You will draw on your own personal interests such as writing, directing, movement, film making etc. thus producing a rounded and well-prepared actor and artist for today's industry. We will encourage you to develop innovative and daring independent projects and provide you with a professional venue to showcase your work.
At the heart of the course is actor training. The programme consists of 16 modules focusing on character, rehearsal, body, and voice, creating theatre, and developing skills. Classes include film, TV and stage acting, voice, and movement as the core aspect of the training. You will study classical theatre, contemporary theatre, physical theatre, clowning, dance, auditioning, devised and scripted performance leading to a range of performance projects.
The course is complimented by a high volume of visiting artists and companies and a wide range of guest speakers who enrich the course and the learning experience with training in accents, stage combat, theatre practice, funding, casting, Spotlight and Equity.
You will have timetabled meetings with personal tutors to support your learning, discuss progress and reflect on developing independent projects. Attendance and engagement with live theatre performance, installation, master classes, screenings and local exhibitions are an essential part of the learning experience and will inform the development of your on-going professional practice.
This course will provide:
• High volume of contact hours
• Intensive training across two years rather than 3-years
• Classes in stage, screen, voice, and movement
• Graduate portfolio including Showreel, voice reel and headshots
• Development of your own creative practice and personal interests
• Delivery in a 250 Seat Professional Theatre and campus studios
• Access to High standard teaching, resources and facilities
Look at our digital portfolio of staff and students: https://leicestercollege.ac.uk/ba-acting-digital-portfolio/
Modules
Year 1
In its first year the course delivers an introduction to the skills of acting, developing into a more sophisticated and joined up approach to creative practice. You will develop your own small-scale work and make a range of ensemble pieces, looking at classical and contemporary texts for stage and screen. You will complete Level 4 and start Level 5 of your degree. Modules include:
• Acting 1 and Acting 2
• Rehearsal Methods and Rehearsal Practice
• Creative Practice 1 and 2
• Dance for the Actor
• Body and Voice
• Physicality in Theatre 1 and 2
Year 2
Year 2 completes Level 5 and Level 6 of the degree. Professional practice will be a core focus of year two, with modules centred around audition, rehearsal and performance skills for stage and screen. Independent work develops a practical portfolio, which will include a performance, and reflective work centred on aspirations beyond graduation. Graduate entry to Spotlight and, (circumstances allowing,) a London Showcase for graduating students conclude Level 6.
Modules include:
• Auditions
• Dance for the actor 2
• Creative Practice 3
• Directed Performance
• Devised Performance
Assessment methods
A diverse range of assessment methods are used to recognise the wide spectrum of learning and abilities of students. Examples of assessment include live performance, recorded screen performance, blog, vlog, podcast, creative portfolio, viva voce and seminar presentation.
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