Course overview
This degree gives you the opportunity to develop your creative talents in and understanding of Drama and Film. It benefits from outstanding facilities for performance, as well as from our industry standard resources for digital video and 16mm film production, alongside professional tuition in screenwriting and film journalism.
Course content in both subjects provides an excellent balance between theory and practice allowing you to engage with essential critical and aesthetic approaches to film and drama and to apply those creatively to a range of practical projects in both areas. This is a challenging and stimulating programme of study that will take you from the close study of texts and films, to the analysis and practice of performance and film production.
The course provides opportunities to screen or perform your work on and off-campus, to undertake commissioned work and to engage with the film and theatre industries through self-generated work placements, thereby encouraging the development of critical knowledge alongside transferable and vocational skills.
Students take half their degree from Drama and half from Film Studies. For further information about these courses, see the entries for BA (Hons) Drama and BA (Hons) Film Studies.
Module guide
Year one:
Approaches to Contemporary Theatre
Introduction to Performance
Performance Analysis
Introduction to Film and Cinema
Visualization, Research and Storyboarding
Film and Genre
Introduction to Video
History of Cinema
Year two:
Writing Drama
Dramatic Performance
Live Art and Performance
TV Drama Production
Directors and Directing
Theorizing the Specular and Classical Hollywood Cinema
Film, Identity and Globalization
Documentary Film Theory
16mm Filmmaking
Introduction to European Cinema
Independent Cinema: US and Beyond
Video Documentary
Animation
European Cinema and Identity
Year three:
Major Project in Drama OR Film Studies
Devising Performance
Enterprise in the Creative Arts
Contemporary Drama
Art, Music and Performance
Special Subject (Theatre)
Reviewing New Drama
Arts Administration
Principles of Dramatherapy
Film Art
Film, Modernity and Post-Modernity
Creative Practice in Film & Video 1
Working in Film
Avant-Garde Film and Experimental Video
Mulitplexed: Contemporary Popular Cinema
Creative Practice in Film & Video
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Associated careers
The range of course options available gives you the opportunity to specialise in or to prepare for entry in a chosen field.
Plus, the considerable practical element of the course means that you will be well equipped with the skills required by institutions and employers within the arena of drama, theatre and performance.
Assessment
Assessment is carried out via a very broad mix of methods including: examinations, essays, reports, oral presentations, studio and public performance, an individual Major Project plus a range of practice based research techniques.
200 - 240 tariff points at A Level or equivalent. Required subject(s): A Level Drama, Theatre Studies or related subject at grade B GCSE(s) Preferred: English, grade C For an explanation of qualifications, have a look at our IAG page on this site www.creativeway.org.uk/quals.
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Advice on courses and careers:-
The Creative Way IAG team provides a specialist service for anyone
interested in finding out about courses and careers in the creative and
cultural industries. We can provide information direct to Students,
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To find out more, visit our IAG page on this site on
http://www.creativeway.org.uk/IAG Or contact one of our career advisers: Matt Ball 07889 001764
m.ball@uel.ac.uk or Sarah
Comerford 07515 051509
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