Acting

This course is designed for students who have a passion for performance; we will show you what it takes to turn natural talent into a sustainable career and we will support you to help make your ambitions become reality. You'll get professional training to improve your acting skills and learn how to create performances for different audiences and contexts. You'll work with other students on projects and films and your independent voice as an emerging artist will be developed and nurtured as you progress through the course. BA (Hons) Acting will provide you with the skills needed for creating performances in today's multimedia world.

What you will study With a highly practical, portfolio approach to developing your creative practice, the course delivers training in a range of established techniques in relation to text, character and performance, alongside the core disciplines of movement, voice and singing. Three main themes of training run through each level: a methodological approach to actor training, media training and the concept of the actor as creator and maker of new performance work. This comprehensive approach reflects the demands and diversity of the 21st century creative industries. Contextual and critical studies across each level will deepen your knowledge and understanding of key contexts within the performance industry and underpin your learning. The course also develops transferable skills in collaboration, teamwork and problem solving. Sitting within the Bournemouth Film School, the Acting course is well situated for cross-course collaborations and this is a key feature of the programme. Within the course, we have an established collaboration for our fully staged Level 6 shows as part of AUB Productions with Costume, Design for Costume & Performance and Make-up for Media & Performance. Through the course, students will also have the opportunity to collaborate with Film, Animation, Games Design, and Creative Writing.

Professional development and employability skills are integrated through all three levels of the course, helping you to prepare for a career in the creative industries and/or postgraduate study. These skills will enable you to aspire to professional standards within live performance and digital media contexts, as well as empower you to explore diverse career paths.

By the end of the course you will be able to...

Demonstrate a range of physical and vocal skills, with a developed understanding of the inter-relationship between the performer’s voice and body.

Engage with dramatic texts and other text and non-text sources in order to produce psychologically, emotionally and physically truthful characters.

Create work in and for specific audiences with an understanding of creative making practices that are solo, collaborative and collective in focus.

Understand a variety of working methodologies and performance vocabularies in order to present work within different contexts and spaces.

Appreciate what it means to be a critical actor, as one who is informed, knowledgeable, and reflectively engaged in their discipline.

Form your own theatre company and operate as a freelance practitioner, with knowledge of producing, budgeting and touring.

Work with a developed knowledge and practical experience of filmed and audio based performance.

Promote yourself through a digital portfolio of work, with a clear understanding of your personal brand and career goals and an identification of post-graduate study options.

Understand what it means to be a reflective practitioner and how to evaluate your development as an emerging artist.

Work effectively and professionally, independently and collaboratively within different contexts, on solo and group projects and as a cast and crew member as part of an ensemble in the process of creating a full scale, public-facing production.