Program Overview

BA (Hons) Screen Acting (Two-Year)

Overview

BA Screen Acting is a unique, practical, industry-focused degree which will allow you to develop the skills necessary to become a screen actor. This course has been developed with industry professionals to reflect the real business of screen acting.

Why Take the Course?

• Comprehensive: Gain experience in essential screen acting disciplines that reflect the real business of screen acting through six key areas: story and script, character and performance, acting methods and techniques, behind the camera skills, screen business and employability.
• Industry-facing: Learn from leading industry guest speakers and tutors, supplying first-hand practical guidance to help students secure employment in the creative screen industries*.
• Portfolio: Collaborate on productions to create material for your showreels. Students leave the course with a showreel, headshots, one year’s Graduate Spotlight membership, and CV.

Programme Aims

• Develop a diverse range of skills and approaches to screen acting and performance whilst understanding the requirements of professional practice and current screen industries.
• Enable you to develop the techniques and approaches to become a screen performer for the 21st-century understanding how to be entrepreneurial, employable, and proactive.
• Clearly identify the skills required for screen acting and performance by incorporating an awareness of current production and industry techniques across a wide range of platforms and production contexts.
• To communicate and deliver creative ideas, both working alone and collaboratively as part of a team.
• To understand the collaborative nature of screen production, to problem solve and learn to work autonomously as well as being a ‘team player’ in today’s evolving screen marketplace.
• Develop independent, self-reflective skills which will enable you to critically appraise and evaluate your personal journey, and support your journey in becoming a ‘self-starter’.
• Engage in critical thinking and research to enable you to engage in contemporary rapidly evolving 21st century cultural, political, technological, and ethical arguments and perspectives relevant to screen acting and the media industries.

Module Overview

Level 4

• Screen Acting Foundations: This module will introduce you to the underlying concepts of Screen Acting. You will begin to develop a core Screen Acting skillset through an understanding of visual storytelling and the actor’s role within the storytelling apparatus.
• Authentic Voice and Movement: In this module you will be exposed to some fundamental vocal and physical skills and practice that will enable you to develop self-awareness of your body and voice.
• Filmmaking Foundations: This module introduces you to the core principles, skills and delivery of filmed content for the large and small screen from a range of contemporary cultural perspectives.
• Acting Practitioners: Developing the themes and concepts you encountered in Acting Fundamentals, you will now start to look at how Screen Acting techniques have been refined and expanded through the work of specific practitioners.
• Psychological Voice and Movement: This module continues to build on the work established in Authentic Voice and Movement. You will expand your practice into areas of physical and vocal awareness acquired through Pilates, Yoga and Expressive movement.
• Production Foundations: This module presents the opportunity to apply knowledge and understanding acquired throughout the entirety of Level 4 by engaging in a consolidated, extended production module in which you will have the opportunity to perform in or work as a key creative crew member on a short film production.

Level 5

• Text, Context and Character: You will acquire knowledge and critical understanding of the role that analysis and research play in the development of compelling screen characters.
• Transformative Voice and Movement: In voice work you will explore and develop an understanding of how an actor develops regional accents, including standard regional and standard UK (RP), standard and regional American in addition to other accents that represent a challenge or departure from your native dialect.
• Filmmaking Intensive: Utilising the reflective outcomes of your Short Form production, you will now engage in a further exploration of filmmaking craft with particular attention to more detailed scene work, focusing on dramatic structure and how to retain authenticity within the pressurised environment of film production.
• Casting: This module introduces you to the core knowledge, understanding and skills required to prepare for auditions and casting in today’s screen industry, from self-tapes through to in-person auditions and chemistry reads.
• Collaborative Anthology Film or Web Series Production: This module is the culmination of your Level 5 studies and represents an opportunity to apply rich layers of knowledge and understanding, whilst also demonstrating a capacity for detailed research and critical thinking, both in front of and behind the camera.

Level 6

• Advanced Acting: In this module you will combine your accumulated knowledge of practitioner techniques with the development of personal practice and the evolution of your own methodology as a screen actor.
• Performance Capture and Screen Combat: You will have the opportunity to acquire knowledge, understanding and foundation skills in the specialised areas of Performance Capture (or Mo-Cap) and Screen Combat.
• Industry Portfolio: In this module you will expand and develop your knowledge of industry practices and conventions, with a specific emphasis on employability, sustaining yourself as a freelance practitioner and continuing to develop your core skills as an independent creative within the Screen industries.
• Graduation Production: The culmination of your practical training, Graduation Production offers you the opportunity to focus on a specific role and or multiple roles within a sustainable production framework.
• Show Reel: The final module of your degree is specifically designed to enable you to draw together all of the performance and filmmaking elements you have assembled over Levels 4, 5 and 6 and build them into an effective, industry-aware show reel.

Teaching, Learning & Assessment

We include a diverse range of teaching methods which include:

• Productions
• Seminar-style Group Teaching
• Tutorials
• Practical Group Work
• Formative Feedback through Critiques, Pitches, Screenings, and Reflective Sessions
• Work-integrated Learning
• Authentic Assessment

We use a wide range of assessment which include portfolios, performances, research, presentations, and reflective work.

Entry Requirements

• UCAS Tariff: 100 points
• A-Level: BCC
• Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma: DMM

Applicants may also provide an equivalent Level 3 qualification such as a Baccalaureate or International Baccalaureate.

Equipment Requirements

Students receive the Office 365 and Adobe Creative Cloud License for the duration of their course. For more information, please check Equipment in the Study with Us section for your chosen course, and the Location sections for the range of equipment and learning resources available on each of our campuses.

Application Information

For more information on BA (Hons) Screen Acting entry requirements, language requirements, funding, and the application process please visit:

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Dates & Prices

London

• 15 September 2025 - 17 September 2027
• £42,000 – UK Students
• £42,000** – EU/EEA Students
• £44,000** – International Students

Berlin

• 15 September 2025 - 17 September 2027
• €35,000 – EU/EEA Students
• €37,000** – International Students

*EU/EEA students with settled status. **International students or EU/EEA students without settled status.