Modules

The Accelerated Degree condenses three years into two, with a more intensive course of study with less holiday period. Level 4 In the first two study blocks of your training, you will encounter the fundamentals of acting and creating work for both stage and digital performance through multidisciplinary studio practice. Your training will be embodied and far-reaching, exploring work through an international, multidisciplinary, and multicultural lens. Focused equitably on both stage and screen you will embark on a learning journey that encompasses Fourth Monkey’s four key pillars of learning with the focus on developing employable skills as an actor, mover, vocal artist and collaborative creative maker across all industry mediums. Modules - Core Principles & Application: Discovering What Moves Me... Play! Who Am I? Technique Into Performance Expressive Exploration Creating My Own Work Level 5 In these two study blocks you can expect to expand and continue to develop your core skills, but also to acquire a more advanced expressive range and technical capacity in different media. You will be required to apply these skills to interpreting and generating more complex material for performance, take more responsibility for your development and encounter more sophisticated practices and styles, alongside beginning to test your skills against the requirements of professional contexts and structures. A higher level of practical independence is expected, and the balance of taught classes and sessions is weighted more to rehearsal sessions for performance, within which you will be expected to actively bring together all your skills from your studio practice. Modules - Expansion & Professional Perspectives: Widening Technical Practice Performance Projects Professional Preparation Contemporary Techniques Integrated Performance Level 6 In the final two study blocks you can expect to shape and present yourself and your skills in both live and digital performance in a variety of public and professional contexts to industry. This culminates in your industry showcase in a central London venue and the compilation of your professional portfolio. Your portfolio will incorporate your showreels and voice reel whilst you will also undertake professional preparation sessions with leading industry figures from agents to casting directors, voice-over agents to motion-capture specialists, intimacy coordinators to headshot photographers whilst also undertaking your stage combat examination as part of your training journey. You will be expected to adapt your personal process and approach to meet the demands of varying professional practitioners, directors, and environments and to independently conceive, develop and realise your own original work for both live performance and film. Performances will be open to the public, and you will be working with external professional directors and engaging with industry gatekeepers as you launch your professional career. Modules - Industry Facing... & Velocity!: Professional & Media Portfolio Creative Classical Project Contemporary Industry Season Experimental Performance Project Non-Assessed Professional Preparation Projects: Industry Showcase at a London Theatre Stage Combat Certification Short Film Project Motion Capture Scriptwriting Project Agent & Casting Director Audition/Self-Tape Bootcamp Industry Q&A’s: Seminars from leading industry professionals in stage, screen, motion capture and voiceover Taxation & Self-Employment Workshops Headshot Photography Preparation Intimacy Coordination / Direction As part of our process of continuous improvement, we routinely review course content to ensure that all our students benefit from a high-quality and rewarding academic experience. As such, there may be some changes made to your course which are not immediately reflected in the content displayed on our website. Any students affected will be informed of any changes made directly.