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ACT2002 – Vocal Technique for Actors 2
Field: DRAMA
Co-ordinator: Gemma Boaden
Credit Value: 20
Level: 5
Timetable Slot: All Year
Pre-requisites: ACT1002
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STD - Vocal Technique For Actors 2, Coursework: 100%
Designated for: Designated for: BA Acting;
Description: The purpose of this module is to enable students to develop and apply their vocal practice artistically, critically and socio-politically within the demands of performance material. Students will be expected to demonstrate further autonomy and complexity in both research and practice.
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ACT2007 – Acting Methodologies 2
Field: DRAMA
Co-ordinator: Owain Rose
Credit Value: 30
Level: 5
Timetable Slot: Semester 2
Pre-requisites: ACT1017
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STD - Acting Methodologies 2, Coursework: 100%
Designated for: Designated for: BA Acting;
Description: The purpose of this module is to engage students in deep textual analysis with classical and Shakespearean and occasionally contemporary texts, enabling students to realise those complex texts through rehearsal and performance.
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ACT2015 – Advanced Acting for Contemporary Performance
Field: DRAMA
Co-ordinator: Brad High
Credit Value: 60
Level: 5
Timetable Slot: Semester 1
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STDFF - Advanced Acting For Contemporary Performance (Integrated Foundation Year), Coursework: 100% STD - Advanced Acting For Contemporary Performance, Coursework: 100%
Designated for: Designated for: BA Acting For Contemporary & Devised Performance;
Description: The purpose of this module is to develop students Acting skills to an advanced level and for a wider variety of performance styles and contexts towards greater employability. This module will build on the foundational performance skills at Level 4 towards cohesive performances in work made for Contemporary audiences and contexts.
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ACT2016 – Advanced Acting and Devising for Screen
Field: DRAMA
Co-ordinator: Brad High
Credit Value: 40
Level: 5
Timetable Slot: Semester 2
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STD - Advanced Acting And Devising For Screen, Coursework: 100% STDFF - Advanced Acting And Devising For Screen (Integrated Foundation Year), Coursework: 100%
Designated for: Designated for: BA Acting For Contemporary & Devised Performance;
Description: The purpose of this module is to prepare students for work in recorded, mediated,screen, online, digital and/or XR performance contexts. Acting skills will be adapted for mediated performance and underpinned by theory and methodologies relevant to screen acting and film-making.
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ACT2017 – Directed Production 2
Field: DRAMA
Co-ordinator: Lisa Lapidge
Credit Value: 20
Level: 5
Timetable Slot: Semester 2
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STDFF - Directed Production 2 (Integrated Foundation Year), Coursework: 100% STD - Directed Production 2, Coursework: 100%
Designated for: Designated for: BA Acting For Contemporary & Devised Performance;
Description: The purpose of this module is to provide students the opportunity to explore and apply advanced elements of the actor?s craft within a performing context modeled after a professional production and directed by an industry professional.
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ACT2019 – Media Acting
Field: DRAMA
Co-ordinator: Emmett Tams
Credit Value: 30
Level: 5
Timetable Slot: Semester 2
Pre-requisites: ACT1017
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STD - Media Acting, Coursework: 100%
Designated for: Designated for: BA Acting;
Description: The purpose of this module is to explore practically the skills required by performers working in screen and radio. It will develop appropriate performance skills and techniques and develop an understanding of the actor's professional role in media performance processes.
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ACT2021 – Actor’s Body and Movement 2
Field: DRAMA
Co-ordinator: Paul Morrison
Credit Value: 20
Level: 5
Timetable Slot: All Year
Pre-requisites: ACT1004
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STD - Actor'S Body And Movement 2, Coursework: 100%
Designated for: Designated for: BA Acting;
Description: The purpose of this module is to engage students in movement training, and to encourage them to move into deeper and wider investigations into the craft of movement for the actor, allowing opportunities for these explorations to begin to integrate within performance.
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ACT2022 – Working with a Director
Field: DRAMA
Co-ordinator: Emmett Tams
Credit Value: 20
Level: 5
Timetable Slot: All Year
Pre-requisites: ACT1017
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STD - Working With A Director, Coursework: 100%
Designated for: Designated for: BA Acting;
Description: The purpose of this module is to learn about the relationship between an actor and a director and how to respond to directorial demand through working with a professional director on a studio-style production at a professional venue.
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ACT2907 – Musical Theatre Dance Technique 2
Field: DRAMA
Co-ordinator: Megan Louch
Credit Value: 20
Level: 5
Timetable Slot:
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: 29LL - Musical Theatre Dance Technique 2, Coursework: 100%
Designated for:
Description: The purpose of this module is to develop and foster the skills already acquired across a diverse range of dance styles and techniques in order to enhance and expand students' professional dance knowledge and expertise within a musical theatre context.
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ACT2908 – Advanced Musical Theatre Technique
Field: DRAMA
Co-ordinator: Charlotte Croft
Credit Value: 40
Level: 5
Timetable Slot:
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: 29LL - Advanced Musical Theatre Technique, Coursework: 100%
Designated for:
Description: The purpose of this module is to deepen the development of students? skills in acting and singing and enable them to integrate the two professionally in order to successfully present Musical Theatre performances.
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ACT2909 – Musical Theatre Staged Performance
Field: DRAMA
Co-ordinator: Richard Leeson
Credit Value: 30
Level: 5
Timetable Slot:
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: 29LL - Musical Theatre Staged Performance, Coursework: 100%
Designated for:
Description: The purpose of this module is to develop students? practical knowledge and understanding of staging a musical theatre performance and expand their skill set. The module provides students with a rich understanding of musical theatre productions and the associated stylistic movements and themes that have been developed.
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DRA2143 – Musical Theatre Integration of Skills
Field: DRAMA
Co-ordinator:
Credit Value: 20
Level: 5
Timetable Slot:
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: 29SM - Musical Theatre Integration Of Skills (Stella Mann College Of Performing Arts), Coursework: 100%
Designated for:
Description: The purpose of this module is to explore different forms of combination and integration of singing, acting and dancing skills required in a range of different styles of musical theatre material, and to build the versatility and employability of all students to encompass musical theatre as well as dance work.
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HMP2003 – Advanced Hair, Wigs and Design
Field: DRAMA
Co-ordinator: I-Chun Hsiao
Credit Value: 20
Level: 5
Timetable Slot: Semester 1
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STDFF - Advanced Hair, Wigs And Design, Coursework: 100% STD - Advanced Hair, Wigs And Design, Coursework: 100%
Designated for: Designated for: BA Hair, Make Up & Prosthetics For Stage & Screen;
Description: The purpose of this module is for students to build on the hair orientated skills gained from level 4 study, and now expand these skills into a selection of the many diverse contexts which the special effects for stage and screen industries operate within and the styles and genres they contain.