Component
MA Public Opinion and Political Behaviour
MFA Acting with Digital Media options

Year 1, Component 03

EA602-7-AU or (EA404-7-FY and EA405-7-FY)
EA404-7-FY
Voice
(15 CREDITS)

You will explore the nature of accents and dialects; the relationship between posture, breath and voice; and the potential of the voice, emotional expression and vocal characterisation. You also study Shakespearean speeches and sonnets and consider the use of expressive language, sound and rhythms.

EA405-7-FY
Movement
(15 CREDITS)

Over the year you will gain an understanding of the structure of a neutral, balanced body and will be introduced to various movement techniques/vocabulary. You will begin to apply this terminology to acting work. As you begin to identify and develop physical presence of self in the space you will learn to execute simple, honest physical action and to develop an appropriate level of physical fitness to meet the challenges of the course. You will learn to select personal warm-up exercises in order to avoid personal injury and to facilitate the fullest use of physical skills in performance. You will gain an awareness of your own postural imbalances and habit body, and begin the process of redressing these habits. You will acquire the ability to select and refine gestures, images and impulses from improvisation.

EA602-7-AU
Character and Scene Work
(30 CREDITS)

This MA/MFA Acting (International) module uses a research based Naturalistic approach to acting as its base. In term one, students study a practical Stanislavski based approach to acting and character creation. In term two, building on the work in the first term, student will study a range of texts will includes research into their cultural context, the writer's life and works, themes of the plays and the critical reception of the plays in production.

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