How Do I Get There (University/Drama School I Want To Study At)
2. Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA)
Course Name: BA (HONS) in Acting (3 years)
What Modules Do They Offer?
The three year BA in Acting (validated by King’s College London) is a Vocational Training course designed to provide a thorough preparation for a career in a wide variety of media, including theatre, television, film and radio.
The programme includes the development of individual skills in the areas of acting, voice and movement, and their application in a variety of projects and productions across the three years. Work is continuously assessed and students have regular feedback sessions with teachers. The aim is to train actors with a high degree of technical facility and flexibility, but also, individuality and imagination. The course includes work on contemporary plays and styles and classes in camera and microphone technique.
Training Includes:
* Stanislavsky-based rehearsal exercises and project work
* Improvisation
* Contemporary and classical text
* Performance projects on Greek Tragedy, Shakespeare and the Jacobeans, Restoration Comedy and contemporary writing
* Acting for camera and microphone technique
* Voice Training, including dialect training, individual and choral singing
* Movement training, including mask, dance and stage combat
Throughout the course professional development sessions introduce guest speakers from across the industry.
Students first perform to the public at the end of the summer term of their second year. This will a production that tours schools. The third year is spent mainly in rehearsal and performance of productions for one of RADA's three theatres. These productions are attended by agents, casting directors and industry professionals.
Entry Requirements:
* Candidates must have complete fluency in the English language.
* The minimum age for admission is 18.
* You will need to demonstrate an intellectual, creative and practical ability to undertake degree level training.
Entry Fee:
£9,000 (in 2014/2015), may increase within coming years.
Within the completion of this course, an agent will be recommended to you by the college to pursue any given role in performance.
Is This Course For Me And Why?
This course is designed to help talented actors develop a high level of technical facility, flexibility, individuality and imagination. They help to develop skills in all the areas of acting, voice, singing and movement. These skills will be applied and assessed through projects, productions and recorded media.
With the ability and knowledge I have achieved throughout my career so far in the Performing Arts Industry, I feel that this course is also right for me as it will help further develop my skills in performance and I will also get to meet famous actors on the course who have also studied here to help gain developed knowledge and personal development on certain areas for the course.
* I feel that RADA would be a great choice for me to decide because of its fantastic facilities, the projects within the subject and knowing the successful outcomes from its successful students.
* Through choosing this institute of study, it would also allow me to further explore and increase my overall understanding in more of the practical and academicals sides of the acting industry.
* I will be able to expand upon my current skills, and also train towards gaining new techniques and skills in performance, all of which will be given through opportunities where I would have to present through stage, screen and radio productions.
* I would have opportunities to meet and work with past graduate students and professionals working within the performing arts industry which would, once again, allow me to extend my understanding in the acting industry and show how much more I can learn and train towards gaining professionalism in the performing arts industry.
What Skills/Requirements Do I Need To Get In?
Students wishing to apply for RADA have to be fluent in the English Language and be over the age of 18. This institute, surprisingly, does not ask for their students past qualifications. This is because when asking for entry into RADA, they require that students should be able to demonstrate an intellectual, creative and practical ability to undertake degree level training.
Students will still have to undertake an audition process, but they can enter if they know full well what they are signing up for.
The audition process consists of four stages:
* Preliminary Audition
* Recall Audition
* Short workshop
* Workshop Day
The purpose of the audition process is for the students that wish to apply to fully demonstrate their abilities to the adaption of what the entirety of the course work consists of within this degree, as well as demonstrating the students current skill's and techniques within the subject and be offered, by lecturers, any areas of development which is needed if they are to take part in this course.
I personally think that both the institute and course are another good option for me:
* It has good facilities to offer for all of their students
* There have been good outcomes from previous students, whom have become very successful
But from the majority of skills that I have already gained through my acting career, as well as experiences in both singing and dance movement, I feel confident with the presentation of my techniques in each forms of performance.
Post Training
If I was to go down the road, for this course, within my Five Year Plan, the Post Training would be a definate improvement towards my skills within the industry.
Throughout the workshops within this course, students take part in the multiple media forms of acting, such as stage, screen, and radio, which would result in extending their performing skills and strategies. This would allow me to become recognised around my local area, and hopefully, later on, around the world, where I will be able to have the chance to take part in many major productions.
This would also allow me to present my current, or newly found skills from the course, to other theatre groups/companies, and allow me to begin the first steps in a potential professional career in acting.
This is a thorough research blog post. Your other drama school research posts need to have this amount of detail. The main focus of these research posts should be on you and your personal development. It is great to be informative about the courses however the focus needs to be on your current skills and those in which you hope to develop on the courses you are potentially going to be applying for.
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