This week, our new Level 4 Acting and Performance students embarked on a year-long module designed to enable them to develop key subject skills in performance, performance-making, and digital and media capabilities.
Media for Acting and Performance focuses on performance training for screen and audio media, such as voice work, and microphone and camera technique. Alongside this, the students are introduced to basic technical skills that will support and inform their performance-making throughout their degree.
Over the course of the year, they will undertake a number of small projects across a range of media, and they will work closely with Dr Tom Payne, Dr Hayley Bradley and Neil Sissons, as they curate their own digital professional creative portfolio, which they will develop throughout their degree in preparation for life and employment after graduation.
"Last year our students achieved amazing results under really challenging circumstances. This year, we're really pleased to be back working day-to-day in our theatre and digital media studios, and we're really excited to see what our new students can produce!" Dr Tom Payne, Course Leader.
At the end of the year, the students will gather all of their video and audio performances, and upload them to their websites. They'll also maintain a process blog, in which they'll tell us about the learning that they've been doing and the creative projects that they've been involved in.
When they graduate in three-years time they should all have a highly polished portfolio, ready for a career in the creative industries, or adapted to suit their chosen career paths.
Our Level 4 students have just started this process, and it's exciting to see their first blogs appearing here on our online community. Have a look at them and say hello!
Picture of screen acting workshops, photograph by: Becky Payne (2021)
If you would like to learn more about the BA (Hons) Acting and Performance at Sheffield Hallam University visit our Online Prospectus.
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