Media and Performance

Do you dream of working with actors, screenwriters and directors to bring a production to life? Or perhaps you’re looking to star in your own radio show? Whatever your professional media goals, our performance and media degree is designed to give you the tools you need to achieve them.

As you progress through your studies, you’ll have the chance to explore performance and media within a unique range of contexts, from radio production and performance, to scriptwriting, directing, producing and screen acting. You’ll also take part in video and drama projects led by professional directors and industry leaders.

What’s more, your final year project will give you the opportunity to specialise in the area of media or performance that interests you most. So, whether your interests lie behind the camera or in front of the microphone, you’ll be creating cutting-edge media and live performance while building a portfolio of work to establish yourself as a professional.

There will also be an opportunity to study a semester abroad in your second year for a semester, or by taking the degree for four years and spending an entire academic year abroad.

You will:

• Study with highly skilled professional practitioners to create cutting-edge media and live performance in a vibrant city with a fantastic theatre, arts and music scene

• Study a course which has produced household names such as Jason Manford, Steve Edge, Emma Atkins, Warren Brown, Erin Shannagher, Peter Kay and Charley Marlow

• Have the opportunity to engage with the industry through networking, masterclasses and a suite of professional development opportunities

Course Modules

Year one

• Critical and Textual Studies

• Acting for Recorded Media

• Acting Methods 1

• Production Skills

• Production Workshop

• Analysing Screen Fiction

Year two

• Performance Studies

A range of optional modules are offered, including:

• Radio Performance and Production

• Directing and Producing

• Integrated Production Skills

• Presenting

• Comedy Writing and Performance

• Acting for the Camera

• Page to Stage: Drama Texts in Translation

• Introduction to Screenwriting

• Playwriting

• Shakespeare In Performance

• Programme Production Techniques

• Theatre and Communities

• Introduction to Theatre Directing

• Introduction to Multimedia Performance

• Theatre Acting

• Music Video Production

You will also choose either a Video Project or a Radio Comedy Project:

• Video Project

• Radio Comedy Project

Year three

• Performance Research Project

• Careers and Professional Pathways

• Video Project

You will choose two of the following options:

• Scriptwriting for TV and Film

• Creative Techniques for Video Drama Production

• Radio Acting

• TV Acting

• Documentary to Mockumentary

• Theatre Directing

• Making Performance for Social Media

• Making Contemporary Performance

• Acting for Motion Capture

• Classical Theatre Acting

• TV Comedy: Sitcom Writing and Performance

• Variety, Stand Up and Solo Comedy