Final year (national level 6):
Core modules
- Multi-Platform Performance (20 credits)
Progress the practical understanding of techniques and skills relevant to different styles and genres of performance for the screen actor, in order to add to your professional show-reel. Take part in workshops that explore diverse areas of screen performance such as virtual reality, TV presenting and motion capture. Analyse and evaluate the challenges and advantages of your selected multi-platform performance.
- Creative Enterprise Project (20 credits)
Gain a broad overview of developments in the creative industries, examine trends and developments in relation to the work of selected practitioners and theorists, and investigate current research, thinking and practice. Develop and apply specialist and transferable skills and knowledge working in a range of professional creative employment contexts. Plan and implement a small-scale project and experience a work placement aligning to a possible career outcome. Develop a professional online portfolio/digital CV which showcases some of your best work to take forward as a way of self-promotion, self-branding and identifying key skills and competencies as a graduate and creative practitioner.
- TV Drama Project (20 credits)
Collaborate with Northumbria Police and produce an awareness and training film that addresses crime. Learn how to act in front of the camera and explore business on screen, hitting a mark, audition techniques and reactions to camera. Analyse scenes from screen performances and explore the creation of meaning in performance.
Optional modules (choose 60 credits):
- Practical Final Project (60 credits)
Create a high-end video project for a client of your choosing such as an individual, a business, or a band. Demonstrate your technical ability/skills in creating highly composed compositions, effective audio, and professional editing/grade.
- Final Showcase (40 credits)
Extend your artistic practice and/or demonstrate creative innovation. Depending on the role you select, you'll develop: artistic competence, choreographic, compositional, devising and directorial processes, performance skills and creative use of small scale staging techniques.
- Moving Camera 2 (20 credits)
Expand on the practical skills and theoretical understanding of the Steadicam, Track and Dollies, Jib Arm and other camera conveyance through lectures, workshops, exercises, screenings and discussions. Develop your critical awareness and understanding of conceptual issues and how these relate to your practical work.
- Screenwriting for Film and TV 2 (20 credits)
Look at adapting existing narratives. Study a variety of forms and sources and develop them into your own narrative in screenplay form (up to 30 minutes). Develop your work through treatment stage to final screenplay. Cover subjects including adapting character, plot, narrative voice and thematic choices.
- Film and Feeling: Music, Performance and Genre (20 credits)
Connect with the role played by music, performance and genre in the evocation of emotion in cinema. Examine these in relation to a rich variety of films drawn from international cinema. Study TV drama and the music video.
