BA (Hons) Acting for Screen, Stage and Future Media Bachelor's degree at the University of Plymouth
BA (Hons) Acting for Screen, Stage and Future Media at University of Plymouth. Distinctive to this course is its focus on acting craft across multiple platforms, stage, screen and emerging digital spaces including immersive performance and creative technologies.
About this course
BA (Hons) Acting for Screen, Stage and Future Media develops your acting craft while preparing you to thrive in the evolving world of digital storytelling, immersive performance and creative technologies. From the provider’s course page.
BA (Hons) Acting for Screen, Stage and Future Media is a Bachelor's degree (BA (Hons)) at the University of Plymouth, based in University of Plymouth Campus. It runs 3 years, studied full-time.
For Drama graduates from this provider, 95% were in work or further study 15 months after graduating, 65% in highly skilled roles, typical earnings around £24,500. (HESA Graduate Outcomes / LEO, via Discover Uni.)
For the typical curriculum, specialisations, career paths and graduate earnings for Media & Communications, see the sections below.
Course evidence score
The arithmetic mean of the official measures available for this course: NSS satisfaction, graduate activity and continuation.
Published threshold met NSS publication requires sufficient responses; small differences are not a rank. NSS mean of 7 published themes (Discover Uni snapshot 2026-06-21)
Limited evidence Published sample: 10; treat comparisons cautiously. Cohort 2021-23. Graduate Outcomes work or further study 95% (2021-23; Discover Uni snapshot 2026-06-21)
Published threshold met Discover Uni suppresses continuation data below its publication threshold. Cohort 2022-23. Continuation 90% (2022-23; Discover Uni snapshot 2026-06-21)
Curriculum & modules
Real modules published for this course, grouped only where the source gives a year, stage or level.
Year 1 6 modules
- The Body in PerformanceCore
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Discover how the body shapes performance across live, digital, and hybrid contexts. This module blends theory and practice to explore embodiment, sensory perception, audience interaction, identity politics, and movement. You'll engage with key thinkers and techniques, examining how the expressive body communicates, challenges norms, and adapts to evolving performance landscapes.
- Acting Techniques and ApproachesCore
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Train as a versatile actor for today's stage, screen, and hybrid performance worlds. Explore key techniques from Stanislavsky to global contemporary practices. Through scene work, voice and movement training, and ensemble rehearsal, you'll build emotional truth, character, and presence. Culminating in live presentations, this module prepares you for the evolving creative industry.
Assessment: 100% Practicals
- Performance Skills: Improvisation, movement and VoiceCore
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Unlock your creative potential through movement, voice, and improvisation. In this hands-on module, you'll build expressive power, physical awareness, and vocal presence while exploring spontaneous performance and embodied storytelling. With a focus on experimentation and ensemble work, you'll gain confidence and versatility to work across stage, screen, and emerging performance spaces.
Assessment: 50% Coursework 50% Practicals
- Devising and Production SkillsCore
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Create bold, original performances through devising and collaborative making. Explore physical storytelling, multimedia integration, and ensemble techniques while gaining hands-on experience in lighting, sound, and scenography. From improvisation to tech rehearsals, this module builds your creative confidence and production skills for today's innovative performance industry.
Assessment: 100% Practicals
- Screen Personality and PresenceCore
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Build your confidence with the core technical aspects of screen acting. Through practical workshops, recorded scenes, and playback analysis, you'll develop emotional authenticity, on-camera presence, and technical awareness. Establish a regular self-tape practice rooted in your creative identity while learning to adapt performance for film, TV, and digital media in today's fast-evolving industry.
Assessment: 60% Practicals 40% Coursework
- Ensemble ProductionCore
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Discover the power of collective creation in this module focused on ensemble performance. Explore movement, voice, and devising techniques to build trust, creativity and responsiveness. Inspired by leading ensemble companies, you'll generate original work from diverse stimuli, experiment with scenography and sound, and develop a shared performance language to create bold, ensemble-based theatre.
Assessment: 100% Practicals
Year 2 6 modules
- Voice Acting for Contemporary MediaCore
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Bring stories to life in the world of voice-over performance. From audio drama and video games to audiobooks and documentaries, this module builds your vocal range, emotional clarity, and technical fluency. You'll develop a professional self-tape practice, explore mic technique, and learn how to adapt your voice for different formats, preparing you for a career in recorded media.
- Acting and Directing for Camera and Contemporary MediaCore
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Sharpen your on-camera performance and directing skills for screen and digital media contexts. Learn to adapt stage skills for camera, master multi-camera setups, and develop expressive, authentic screen acting. Through practical workshops and collaboration, you'll build technical fluency and artistic insight in acting, reacting, character work, and directing for screen.
- Directed Stage ProductionCore
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Discover new ways to tell timeless stories by blending live performance with digital media. Inspired by innovative directors like Katie Mitchell, Elizabeth LeCompte and Laurie Anderson, you'll adapt a classic text using digital elements such as video, sound or even virtual reality, to create an immersive theatre experience. Engage in casting, rehearsal, and hybrid storytelling that challenges form and convention.
- Auditions, Self-Tapes and ShowreelsCore
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Assessment: 100% Coursework
- Creative Industries PracticeCore
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Explore how contemporary performance responds to real-world industry challenges. In this practical module, you'll engage with industry informed live briefs and current trends to develop original work. Engage with industry professionals and contexts to learn how acting and performance-making techniques can be shaped by professional contexts, audiences, and evolving industry expectations.
- Performance CaptureCore
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Adapt your acting skills for translating movement into digital characters with performance capture for film, games, and immersive media. This module builds your versatility as an actor through training in movement, shoot etiquette, and animation workflows. Explore how AI is reshaping screen performance and examine ethical questions around identity, consent, and authorship in the digital age.
Final Year 5 modules
- Advanced Acting for Screen and Contemporary MediaCore
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Advance your screen acting craft through practical training, rehearsal and analysis. Explore acting techniques, character work, and on-set protocols across genres and formats from film, TV, and emerging media. Analyse screen acting through cultural and technical lenses, engage with industry ethics, and build skills for digital auditions and future creative careers.
- Directed Live ProductionCore
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Immerse yourself in a fully directed hybrid theatre production that fuses live performance with digital innovation. From audition to final show, you'll rehearse as part of a professional ensemble, exploring voice, movement, and character across physical and virtual spaces. Public performances reflect the cutting edge of today's evolving theatre industry and professional environments.
- Professional Portfolio and PlacementCore
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Explore diverse careers in the creative and convergent entertainment industries through hands-on experience and industry engagement. This module helps you build networks and gain insight across live, digital, and immersive sectors. You'll engage with a professional context and create a portfolio showcasing your skills, adaptability, and readiness for evolving creative roles.
- Major ProjectCore
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Ignite your future in your discipline area. This module empowers you to define your professional identity, shape your final year around your ambitions and produce a professional-quality artefact or product. You will showcase your work to a public audience and can choose to work collaboratively across disciplines to gain more professional-relevant experience building confidence to launch your career.
- Research ProjectCore
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Examine how research underpins creativity and innovation in art and design. Explore key methodologies for creative inquiry, while developing critical thinking, analytical skills, and original exploration. Build confidence in forming research questions, investigating ideas, and articulating findings with clarity and depth.
Assessment: 100% Coursework
Source: provider course page. Modules can change; required/optional status, credits, descriptions and assessment are shown only when explicitly published.
Course in depth
What this course covers, who it suits and where it leads.
What you'll study
This course develops your acting craft for screen, stage and digital storytelling, preparing you to work across immersive performance and creative technologies. You'll usually begin with foundations in performance theory, voice and movement, alongside practical production skills across multiple platforms. In the middle years, you'll typically develop specialisation in areas such as film and TV, games and interactive media, or social media performance, whilst studying how the media and entertainment industries operate. By your final year, you'll engage with specialist options, undertake industry projects or placements, and complete a substantial production portfolio or research project that demonstrates your professional readiness.
Who it's for
You're suited to this course if you're drawn to acting and want to understand how the craft translates across different media, not just traditional theatre, but film, television and new digital platforms. You should enjoy both the discipline of character work and the creative problem-solving that comes with performing in different technical and artistic contexts. This programme works well for people who want practical training alongside intellectual exploration of performance, and who are curious about where acting might lead in a changing creative industry.
Careers & job market
Across Media & Communications courses nationally, 90% of graduates are in work or further study 15 months after graduating. Of those in work, 60% are in highly skilled roles or pursuing further study. National Graduate Outcomes data shows starting salaries of £22,000–£28,000 fifteen months after graduation, rising to £22,525–£31,800 within five years. Career paths for performers vary widely depending on specialism and opportunity; Graduate Outcomes figures reflect the full range of roles and earnings within the sector.
University & format
This BA (Hons) degree is taught at the University of Plymouth, a university in the South West of England, over 3 years full-time. Instruction is in English. The degree is recognised as a UK degree-awarding body, with national recognition. The university holds a Gold award for teaching quality in the Office for Students' TEF 2023.
Student satisfaction
How students on this course answered the National Student Survey, by theme.
Share of students responding positively.
Published threshold met NSS publication requires sufficient responses; small differences are not a rank. NSS mean of 7 published themes (Discover Uni snapshot 2026-06-21)
Applicant information
The next application dates for this course, followed by facts the provider publishes.
- 2027 entryCompleted applications can be submitted
Your application needs a reference before you can send it.
- 2026 entryFinal date for 2026 applications
Applications must reach UCAS by 18:00 UK time.
- 2026 entryLast day to add a Clearing choice
Check that this course still has a vacancy before adding it.
- 2027 entryEqual-consideration deadline
18:00 UK time for most undergraduate courses.
Show 5 later dates
- 2027 entryUCAS Extra opens
Applicants who used all five choices and hold no offer may be able to add another choice.
- 2027 entryLast day applications go directly to providers
Applications received after 18:00 UK time are entered into Clearing.
- 2027 entryClearing opens
Eligible applicants can see vacancies and release themselves into Clearing.
- 2027 entryFinal date for 2027 applications
Applications must reach UCAS by 18:00 UK time.
- 2027 entryLast day to add a Clearing choice
Check that this course still has a vacancy before adding it.
Provider-published requirement; check the linked course page before applying.
Entry & how to get in
Who gets in
What recently admitted students actually held, official admissions data, not a stated requirement.
UCAS tariff of entrants
Grades are the A-level equivalent of each points band. Tap a band to check your own chances below.
Qualifications held on entry
| Qualification | Share |
|---|---|
| A-levels or equivalent | 90% |
| a previous degree | 5% |
| a Baccalaureate | 5% |
Entry & your chances
An honest read from the official entry data, plus your personal match.
Accepted students came in with a broad spread of qualifications and UCAS points. If you're worried about grades, this course has historically taken a wide range, and contextual offers may apply.
Will you get in? Plot your grades
Pick your predicted A-levels and watch your UCAS points land on the real spread of students admitted to this course.
Each bar is the share of admitted students in that UCAS-points band (lower → higher). Grades show the A-level equivalent.
Based on the official admitted-student tariff distribution. Many universities make contextual (reduced-grade) offers, so a result below the range doesn’t rule you out.
How to apply
Undergraduate applications go through UCAS. Here’s what matters for this course, the right deadline, the grades to aim for, and the steps in order.
- 1Register on UCAS Hub
Create your UCAS application and add this course. One application covers up to five choices.
- 2Write your personal statement
A single statement covers all your choices, so keep it broad enough for similar courses while showing genuine interest in this subject.
- 3Submit by 13 January 2027, 18:00 UK time
UCAS equal-consideration deadline for most undergraduate courses. Source: UCAS 2027 dates.
- 4Reply to your offers
When decisions are in, pick a firm (first) choice and an insurance (back-up) choice with slightly lower grades.
- 5Results day & confirmation
On results day (mid-August) your place is confirmed if you meet the offer. Just missed? Talk to the university, or find a place through Clearing.
Fees & funding
What this course costs and how UK student finance covers it.
Tuition per year
Standard capped home fee at English providers (2026/27); Scotland, Wales & NI differ.
Check fees at University of Plymouth →For students who normally live in England
2026/27 Student Finance England figures. Maintenance support is means-tested and this two-point view is not an entitlement calculator. The course total uses its published length and home fee where both are available; a missing full-time fee uses the clearly labelled England-cap scenario, while part-time fees and unknown lengths are never guessed. Use the official calculator. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland use separate systems: SAAS, Student Finance Wales, and Student Finance NI.
Starting on or after 1 January 2027?
The Lifelong Learning Entitlement is a separate system. A new learner’s tuition entitlement is currently stated as £39,160 (about 480 credits at 2026/27 fee levels), subject to prior study and eligibility. Check the official LLE guide.
Paying for it
- Tuition Fee Loan: can cover eligible tuition up to the applicable limit and is paid straight to the provider.
- Maintenance Loan: up to £10,830/yr away from home outside London (England, 2026/27), means-tested on household income.
- Repayment: 9% of income above £25,000, nothing below it; written off after 40 years.
- Earn alongside: most students work part-time in term, part-time roles on the StudySmarter job board.
England figures shown; Scotland, Wales & NI run their own schemes, check gov.uk.
Scholarships & bursaries you could qualify for
That does not mean no funding exists. Check the university directory for current amounts, eligibility and application dates.
We only display a named award when its provider source identifies the award and who it is for.
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Careers & earnings
What Media & Communications graduates actually earn, from real outcome data, 15 months, 3 years and 5 years after graduating.
Graduate earnings: this course
| When | Median | Typical range | Graduates |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 months after | £24,500 | £20,500 – £30,000 | 10 |
| 3 years after | £18,000 | £11,000 – £22,000 | 55 |
| 5 years after | £23,500 | £15,500 – £27,500 | 45 |
Nominal earnings for graduates of this course/subject at this provider. Limited evidence. Published sample: 10; treat comparisons cautiously. Cohort 2021-23.
Graduate outcomes, 15 months on: this course
- 1Graduate roleFirst role after the degree · 0–2 yrs
- 2Specialist / PractitionerWorking in media & communications · 2–5 yrs
- 3Senior / LeadLeading work and people · 5–10 yrs
- 4Head of / ExpertSenior leadership or deep expertise · 10+ yrs
How pay grows: this course vs Media & Communications nationally
National figures for Media & Communications graduates, HESA Graduate Outcomes (15 months) and the Longitudinal Education Outcomes (LEO) dataset (3 & 5 years). These are national, not university-specific; actual pay varies by employer, region, role and experience. Different cohorts, so the bars are not one group over time.
Work out your pay
Headline figures hide a lot. Calculate realistic take-home pay for this field by role, region and experience, then check your CV before you apply.
What happened to 100 students?
Choose an outcome to translate the published percentage into a simple 100-person view. Each dot represents one percentage point, not an individual tracked student.
were in work or further study
15 months after graduation
Source: Discover Uni, using Graduate Outcomes and continuation data. Cohorts: 2021-23. Limited evidence. Published sample: 10; treat comparisons cautiously. Cohort 2021-23. Each tab is a separate published measure; categories can overlap and should not be added together.
Value compared with similar courses
How this course’s 5-year median earnings compare with Media & Communications courses at the same study level.
Compared with 541 courses with compatible official earnings data. This is a course-value comparison, not a quality ranking.
UK occupations graduates enter
Published graduate destinations, joined conservatively to UK SOC 2020, ONS pay and Skills England demand.
- Teaching ProfessionalsSOC 2020 231 · 30% of published destinations · ASHE median £42,660
- Elementary occupationsSOC 2020 9 · 20% of published destinations · ASHE median £19,087
- Artistic, literary and media occupationsSOC 2020 341 · 20% of published destinations · ASHE median £33,824
Discover Uni JOBLIST/JOBTYPE; ONS ASHE 2025 provisional, all employee jobs; Skills England Occupations in Demand 2025. SOC is shown only for an exact normalised label match; demand is shown only at exact four-digit SOC. Published sample: 70; response rate: 55%. Pay describes the occupation across workers, not a guaranteed graduate salary.
Job market & outlook
How Media & Communications graduates fare in the labour market, and how AI is reshaping the work.
How AI is changing the work
AI doesn't replace the profession, it shifts it: routine tasks get automated, while judgement, working with people and using AI well become more valuable.
What AI takes off your plate
- Routine information gathering
- First-draft writing and summaries
- Standard analysis and admin
- Repetitive processing tasks
More human than ever
- Judgement and original thinking
- Working with and leading people
- Owning and sense-checking AI output
- Ethics and accountability
The strongest graduates pair subject depth with the ability to use AI tools critically.
Roles & employers
Where Media & Communications graduates typically go, indicative destinations from graduate career data. Each role links to live openings on the StudySmarter job board.
Roles graduates go into
Where they work
- Media companies
- Agencies
- In-house comms teams
- Broadcasters & charities
Jobs after this course
Current roles from the StudySmarter job board that suit Media & Communications graduates.
Media Operations, VP (Parental Leave Cover)WPP MediaMedia Relations ManagerCommonwealth War Graves CommissionMedia ManagerUS Tech SolutionsMedia Planning and Buying CoordinatorBurberryMedia Sales ExecutiveService ServiceMedia Planner/BuyerDifferent Technologies Pty Ltd.Is this course right for you?
The essentials UK applicants ask about: finance, outcomes, entry and quality.
Student finance
For comparison, the standard full-time England tuition cap is up to £9,790 per year in 2026/27; the actual fee varies by course and provider. If you normally live in England, eligible students can apply for a Tuition Fee Loan, plus a Maintenance Loan for living costs. Under Plan 5 you repay 9% of income above £25,000, nothing below that, and the balance is written off after 40 years.
Where graduates go
95% were in work or further study 15 months after graduating, with a median salary of £24,500. See the full breakdown in Careers & earnings above.
Your entry chances
Use the UCAS points calculator above to see how your predicted grades compare with admitted students, and whether a contextual offer could apply.
Official-data snapshot
Averaging the official measures published for it, this course scores 8.7 out of 10: NSS 77.1% · in work or study 95% · continued 90%.
Who studies here and in this subject?
Provider- and UK subject-level context.
University of Plymouth
Media, journalism and communications across the UK
HESA student record 2024/25. Counts are rounded.
Local crime-data context
A neutral snapshot around the published teaching location.
Around University of Plymouth Campus
3,218 street-level reports returned within roughly one mile across 2026-04 to 2026-06.
Police.uk street-level API. Approximate locations, not confined to campus. England, Wales and Northern Ireland; not Scotland.
Is Media & Communications right for you?
Tick what applies to you and see how good a fit it is.
International students
What applying to University of Plymouth from outside the UK involves: fees, English, visa, funding and living costs.
Tuition fees
International tuition is set per course by University of Plymouth; international fees are typically £12,000–£30,000/year for classroom subjects and higher for lab/clinical ones. You’re not eligible for UK Tuition Fee or Maintenance Loans, so plan for fees plus living costs upfront.
English language
Most UK undergraduate courses ask for around IELTS 6.0–6.5 (no band below 5.5–6.0), or an accepted equivalent. If you’re just short, most universities run a pre-sessional English course that counts towards the requirement.
Student visa
You’ll usually need a Student visa (Student Route). After you accept an offer the university issues a CAS; you then show funds for fees plus about £1,023–£1,334/month living costs and pay the Immigration Health Surcharge for NHS access.
Scholarships & funding
Many universities offer international/global scholarships (often £2,000–£6,000/yr), check University of Plymouth’s funding pages.
Living costs
Budget roughly £1,100–£1,400/month outside London and £1,400–£1,800/month in London for rent, food and travel; the figure also matters for your visa.
Working while you study
A Student visa usually allows up to 20 hours/week in term time and full-time in holidays, useful alongside study, though not something to rely on for fees.
Visa rules and fees change. Always confirm the current requirements with University of Plymouth and gov.uk before you apply.
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