Screen Acting and Performance

Entry requirements

We are looking for graduates with a 2:2 Honours degree with 53% or above in their first degree in drama. While we normally only accept applicants who meet this criterion, if you are coming from a different academic background which is equivalent to degree level, or have relevant work experience, we would welcome your application. Practical and/or professional experience may be taken as constituting the equivalent of a degree qualification.

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Test Name: IELTS Academic, IELTS Online, IELTS One Skill Retake and IELTS Indicator (IELTS – Academic version)
Required Score: 6.0 overall and no less than 6.0 in any section

Test Name: TOEFL iBT, TOEFL iBT Home Edition, TOEFL iBT Paper Edition and TOEFL MyBest scores
Required Score: Overall score 87 with minimum scores of 21 for writing, listening, reading and speaking.

Test Name: Pearson Test of English (Academic) PTE
Required Score: 64 overall with no less than 64 in all communicative skills

Test Name: LanguageCert International ESOL SELT
Required Score: B2 Communicator with minimum 33 in writing, speaking, listening & reading

Test Name: LanguageCert Academic
Required Score: 65 overall and no less than 65 in any skills score

Test Name: INTO Pre-sessional English
Required Score: 60 and no less than 60 in any sub-section

Test Name: Study Group Academic English
Required Score: Minimum of 60% overall, no less than 60% in any section

Test Name: Skills for English: SELT
Required Score: B2 Pass

Test Name: Duolingo English Test - test taken up to 30th June 2024
Required Score: 110 overall and no less than 110 in Literacy, 95 in Conversation, 110 in Comprehension and 90 in Production

Test Name: Duolingo English Test - test taken from 1st July 2024
Required Score: 110 overall and no less than 110 in any Integrated Subscore

Careers

Graduates of this programme will have had opportunities to develop their own creative practice, project management, independent and collaborative skills that they can take into a wide range of careers. They'll learn to reflect upon and articulate their own practice of acting for screens and also have an understanding of how to frame and pursue an independent career as a creative practitioner working across media forms.

You’ll leave with experience of key performance and acting skills for screen, including audition techniques, specialist voice and physical training, a portfolio and a show reel.   

You’ll have also enhanced your knowledge of techniques for working as a performer and behind the screen and possess a deepened understanding of writing and performance creation and analysis skills applicable to a variety of screen environments.