Acting [with Foundation Year] BA (Hons)

<strong>Reach your potential on this conservatoire-style course designed to build your creative skills including live performance, screen acting and motion capture.</strong><br/><br/>Grow into a confident and versatile performer. Focus on fundamental acting skills, voice and movement, screen acting, and how to rehearse for a full production.<br/><br/>Work with external directors, experiment with Physical Theatre, learn about new performance technologies, and extend your experience with screen acting and classical text.<br/><br/>In your final year, our Immersive Performance module and Showcase will allow you to demonstrate your high-level skills in acting.<br/><br/>Train in professional-standard facilities including our professional 260 seater Mumford Theatre.<br/><br/>Gain experience with new technologies and alternative platforms to become a dynamic and responsive actor.<br/><br/>Develop your technical and production skills in specialist facilities for recorded and live performance.<br/><br/>Graduate with a professional CV, headshots and showreel.<br/><br/>Collaborate with other creative students, experienced tutors, community partners and industry professionals.<br/><br/>Get involved with Cambridges many acting troupes and events.<br/><br/><strong>Careers</strong><br/><br/>Throughout your degree, you’ll develop creativity and technical competence in a range of acting media, including both live and recorded performance.<br/><br/>You’ll develop transferable skills such as research, teamwork, communication, problem solving, and resourcefulness – invaluable in all areas of the creative industries as well as other sectors.<br/><br/>You’ll also have opportunities to take part in collaborative projects, like our HMS Belfast project with Imperial War Museums to commemorate D-Day, and 60 Second Shakespeare with the Globe theatre, London.<br/><br/>By the time you graduate, you’ll have built up a professional portfolio of your acting projects, which will act as an enhanced CV for you to present to agents, employers and clients – whether you want to act in live performance, on screen, or even be a voice or motion-capture artist for games and other new media.<br/><br/><strong>Teaching</strong><br/><br/>In your first year, you’ll be introduced to effective working methodologies in both performance and production, producing a studio-based collaborative live performance, developing core physical and vocal skills and being introduced to acting for the camera.<br/><br/>In your second year, you’ll work with a professional theatre director as a member of a production company, creating a theatre piece for live performance.<br/><br/>Finally, our Immersive Performance module, Showcase and Major Project will allow you to demonstrate your high-level skills in acting and focus specifically on your employability.