BA (Hons) Acting with Professional Placement Bachelor's degree at Falmouth University

An opportunity to encounter a variety of practitioners and styles of working with text. The focus will be on how to approach text from an actor's perspective in preparation for and during a rehearsal process, utilising established and emerging approaches.

You will look at how an actor engages their body and voice to communicate. The module will enable a consistent and disciplined development of healthy vocal and physical skills and advance your individual progress.

We focus on the essential element of context in performances. This is through degree-level research, critical thinking, and writing in cultural studies, with a specific emphasis on theatre, performance, theatre-making, film, and television, exploring their interconnected histories, contexts, and practices.

This module will allow you to gain the foundational tools of improvisation and character creation through a process of practical application, performance, and reflection.

You will integrate voice, speech, and text, focusing on selected texts demonstrating appropriate technique, emotional connection to character, space, and contexts in voice. Simultaneously, in movement, you will focus on developing a movement vocabulary for interpreting and expressing characters.

Through a live performance, you will gain foundational rehearsal and performance development skills and techniques to apply in a live performance setting as an actor.

This module explores and develops your existing acting skills and approaches relevant to acting for screen. You'll gain a deeper practical understanding of the actor's process within the given context of screen.

This module is designed to develop and refine skills in voice and movement. It emphasises deeper understanding and practical exploration of both physical and vocal expressiveness.

You will rehearse and perform in a company of actors. You'll receive directorial guidance and actor-training support throughout this process, incorporating current industry practices within the acting field. This module is purposefully crafted to acquaint students with the dynamics of a rehearsal process leading to a performance for an audience.

This module is designed to give you the opportunity to take practical techniques and skills and explore how they can be applied. The notion of 'failure' within a creative process is encouraged, challenged, and scrutinised as a rehearsal, developmental and self-diagnostic tool.

You will study and compare classical and contemporary scripts whilst maintaining a focus on how they may be interpreted and performed to a contemporary audience.

This module will take you through the process of detailed and comprehensive character research. Students will be able to select a character from a range of texts and, using academic research practice, will carry out research through the lens of an actor approaching a script.

On this module, you will explore the relationship of the actor and digital technology in performance; determining appropriate application of movement, voice, imagination and focus of energy.

This student-led project provides an opportunity for you to carry out in-depth research and critical analysis on a topic relevant to the ambition, direction and development of your practice.

You will apply the skills and techniques acquired in previous modules and will further advance knowledge and skills of acting for the screen. This will culminate in a finished piece of recorded work of suitable production value for use in your professional portfolio.

You will present material to an industry panel as an acting audition. This will replicate current industry practice and give you an opportunity to receive feedback and engage with contemporary industry processes of auditioning, casting, and agency representation. You will also collate digital material and reflections on experiences to create a presentation on future employment focussed on a chosen career path and/or further education.

Bringing together all of the skills you have learnt over the degree, this is the culmination of these efforts. You will perform as part of a full-length, live production, reflecting a professional environment.