Course description
Acting for Stage and Screen (Performing and Production Arts) Level 3 Extended Diploma
This course is designed for those interested in musical theatre or acting as a career.
Upcoming start dates
Suitability - Who should attend?
A minimum of four GCSEs at Grade 4 or above (A*–C), including English and preferably an art-based subject.
All learners will be required to attend an audition. You will be contacted personally to confirm any materials you may need to prepare for this.
Training Course Content
What you'll learn
You will cover:
- screen acting
- script work
- media skills
- practitioner study
- devising
- directing
- movement
- voice and accent
- audition preparation
- healthier performer
- arts business study
- comedy and improvisation
- …and loads more!
In the first year of this course, you will study for the Diploma. Once that Diploma is successfully achieved, you will be invited to continue on to complete the full Extended Diploma in the second year of the course.
Continuing Studies
After successful completion of the full Level 3 Extended Diploma course, students move into a variety of different professional pathways.
The following are examples of what past Guildford College Performing Arts students are doing now:
- Studying for a musical theatre or acting degree at either a university or a vocational school including Mountview, Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, Academy of Live and Recorded Arts, Guildford School of Acting, Bird College, Urdang, London Studio Centre, Performance Preparation Academy and Millennium.
- Training in repertory companies such as Court Theatre Training Company and Fourth Monkey Theatre Company.
- Performing and teaching after further training at universities including Middlesex, Kingston and Chichester.
- Many students have performed in pop videos, as actors, extras, backing dancers for live concerts, on cruise ships and in touring musicals and plays such as Sinatra and Tarzan.
- Freelance education work in UK and abroad.
- Directing their own company, such as Guildford Fringe.
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