Course Curriculum

Each year is dedicated to specific skills and outcomes. The structure is unique to this course and is built as follows:

FIRST YEAR

PERSONAL PREPARATION & PROCESS 

Your first year is a rigorous and enlightening process of discovery. Find your voice, claim your space, trust your instinct, open your heart and understand, affirm and celebrate the reasons why acting is a vital and important component in your life.

• Class Work: Voice, Movement, Mask, Emotional Instrument, Creative State, Language Power, Performance History, Improvisation, Life Mastery. Acting Laboratory includes – Laban, Morris, Stanislavsky, Benedetti, Spolin, Chekhov, and Johnstone
• Presentations: Mask, Life Movement Solo, Animal/Observation, Sonnets 
• Public Performances: Australian Scenework (Term Three), Devised Theatre Project (Term Four)

SECOND YEAR

PERFORMANCE DEVELOPMENT & CONSOLIDATION

With your foundation skills in place, your second year is your chance to explore and experience the demands and the power of live performance. This is the time to truly embrace the depth, range and demands asked for by playwright, character, dramatic situation and director, through accessing all areas of your potential and abilities. You will also be introduced to camera work early in the year to utilise and develop the skills required for screen.

• Class Work: Voice, Movement, Emotional Instrument, Shakespeare, Mask, Character, Performance History, Camera, Acting, Improvisation, Script Analysis, Singing
• Presentations: Character Monologue, Mask
• Public Performances: Voice & Physical Theatre Performance (Term One), Russian Theatre Project (Term Two), Shakespeare Theatre Project (Term Three), VERBATIM Theatre Performance 'Reality Bytes' (Term Four)

THIRD YEAR

INDUSTRY ALIGNMENT & REFINEMENT

This is where this courses’s innovation really comes into its own; return after your summer break for the final six-month module solely dedicated to your knowledge of, and initiation into, the professional arena. Spend two invaluable terms preparing how you will conduct your business as an artist and how to best create and manage your career in consultation with prominent industry guests who will address all facets of the industry including; casting, agents, directors, short film-making, self-employment, self-marketing, funding, sponsorship, touring and company information.

The Course focuses on television and film training as an essential element in the program; the final four terms of the course has screen acting as a major component. You will shoot a major scene for your Showreel directed by a current TV and/or Film Industry Director, maximising your employment opportunities.

• Class Work: Screen Acting, Screentesting, Audition Technique, Performance Lab, Accents, Singing, Showreel & continuing core Voice and Movement
• Presentations: Singing, Musical Theatre Dance Audition, Industry Showreel.
• Public Performances: American Theatre Project (Term One), Industry Showcase/Agents' Day (Term Two).

Module Summary AdvDip Performing Arts (Acting)

You will complete your training with:

• An Advanced Diploma of Performing Arts (Acting)
• Industry Showcase performances for agents, casting directors, directors from theatre, film & television and other industry guests
• A Graduate Showreel sent to casting directors and agents
• Showcast online listing as an ACA Graduate
• CV and Showreel
• 10x8 Headshot
• Articulation into a Bachelor of Theatre Studies at University of New England, worth 84 credit points