Level 3 Diploma in Creative and Performing Arts (Acting)

Level 3 Extended Diploma in Creative and Performing Arts (Acting)

By training with The Whitstable School you will develop a diverse and varied range of acting and performance skills. You will build confidence in your abilities as a 'thinking actor' as well as a deeper understanding of the actor's role within different performance contexts.

1. Planning for career in PA

Looking at job roles in the performing arts and how these are marketed. Considering a role in the industry? There is so much more than just performers.

2. Drama in the Community

Creating a practical performance through workshop rehearsals and exercises involving your local community.

3. Masks and Puppets

Explore making masks and puppets through practical work and develop a performance using the discipline.

4. Theatre in Education

Create performances aimed at a target audience designed to educate and inform.

5. Theatre Spaces and Audiences

Identify and understand the demands of different types of staging and create practical work focused around the different staging.

6. Comedy in Performance

Explore the techniques used in comedy and perform extracts that fit the genre.

7. Performance Preparation

External unit designed to help you to understand the process of putting on a performance from scratch.

8. Approach to acting

Looking practically at the work of performance practitioners, all actors can be influenced and develop ideas from professionals.

9. Acting for camera

Acting for a camera is a different skill than a stage. You will learn the tricks and skills needed to perform on the TV or in films.

10. Audition techniques

Developing voice and movement skills ready for auditions.

11. Final Production

This is an external unit. Devise a performance based on a stimulus.

12. Elizabethan or Jacobian Theatre

Focus on theatre from the Elizabethan or Jacobian and understand the way the scripts are constructed and how you should perform them.

13. Physical Theatre

Using some of the leading physical theatre companies work as well as devised work, create a performance within the style.