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This module is an extension from your knowledge and experience gained in Stage and Screen 1. You will be dealing with more complex material and looking at greater depth in your acting work. The workshops will continue to focus on practical collaborative exploration, and on learning from both doing and evaluating, but in terms of length and difficulty, the work will grow increasingly more complex/ challenging. Specific acting theorists, such as Stanislavski, Stella Adler, Uta Hagen, Meisner and others will be considered in practical application. Through a series of chosen scenes for both stage and screen you will learn to work under direction to develop complex, believable scenes that will test your imagination and ability both to make strong choices and to sustain them in performance. You will be exploring the similarities and differences in performance for stage and performance for screen and will be applying your performance skills and knowledge in both contexts. You will be looking at more advanced techniques and concepts and you will be performing a longer sustained text for assessment. You will complete a prepared character portfolio. This along with your final performances will require you demonstrate an advanced knowledge of both stagecraft, screen performance, and further testing your ability to communicate ideas clearly and cogently through practical performance vocabulary.

LO1: integrate vocal and physical skills in complex expression in both live and recorded performance.
LO2: confidently articulate a theoretical approach to preparing, executing and sustaining performance choices in both live and recorded media, and to articulate the similarities and differences in working between the two.
LO3: critically demonstrate understanding by dramatic conflict and how you can use it to develop and communicate elements of character, emotion, and narrative to an audience, as well as to your fellow actors.
LO4: evidence critical knowledge of a range of approaches to deepening imaginative and emotional connection to text in performance.
LO5: Clarify thought, test and embed knowledge developed from advanced research and analytical thinking.