
Acting
Course Overview
As an Acting student, you are likely to be creative, flexible and curious. This qualification will give you a solid basis for working towards a career within the performing arts industry.
In order to assess your commitment and potential, we have identified six attributes we feel our students need to give them the best chance of success on our courses:
We would like you to have some experience in your discipline, gained either through opportunities at school or in your spare time. Good examples of this may be through your involvement in school productions (either performing or backstage), through youth theatre, school choir or orchestra, or through developing your own interests in design or technology. Your course is likely to cover a range of creative and performing approaches within your chosen discipline, so you need to be willing to have a go at everything.
We would like to see that you have begun to develop your interest for your discipline by doing more than just looking for creative and/or performing opportunities either at school or in your spare time. While distance or cost may have stopped you from gaining formal experience, signs that you read about the subject, make efforts to see other people active within the discipline you wish to study and can talk with enthusiasm about your subject will support your application.
We would like you to be able to work well with others. While you are with us, you will work with a wide range of people – teachers, industry professionals and other students. We would like to see that you are open to learning from other people, that you can listen to them and see their point of view (even if it’s not the same as yours) and that you can offer constructive feedback.
We would like to see that you are curious about the world around you, that you are keen to share your experience and learn from the experience of others and that you are willing to get involved with the wide range of opportunities we offer.
We would like to know why you are applying to us - how do you think your course will help you to grow, and what can you bring to your studies? What are you good at, and what would you like to be able to do better, or more of? As we begin to get to know you better, we can help you begin to work more effectively towards your further study and/or career aspirations.
We want you to be able to work on your own initiative and see that you are interested in creating your own opportunities. Even if you haven’t had much opportunity to be involved with projects that were not part of your regular school/college curriculum, your ideas and enthusiasm will go a long way.
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