Media Performance

BA (Hons) Media Performance
Mode: full-time

You will work individually and as a member of a team through performance and production skills and techniques. Your practical work will be informed by a detailed study of media and cultural theory. The course includes training in the theoretical analysis of performance as a process.

All these creative and technical activities are integral to the success of any performance.

The course culminates with a special project that occupies the final semester and allows you to explore the themes of the course that most interest you.

Areas of study include:

• Performance Techniques
• Presenting for the Camera
• Acting for the Camera
• Stage and Single Camera Directing
• Radio 24/7
• Developing Texts for Performance
• Performance Management
• Theatre and Single Camera Lighting
• Media and Cultural Theory and Performance Practice

Why choose this course?

• Unique mix of topics
• Excellent facilities, including four multi-camera broadcast spaces and two radio studios, plus creative writing labs, multimedia suites and studios for animation and design work
• Innovative degree, preparing you to perform in TV, film, stage, radio and new media
• Staff deliver academic expertise and experience of current professional practice
• A multi-million pound Media Arts Centre, which includes a TV studio, a self-operated green screen studio with autocue, a broadcast-equipped theatre and a rehearsal studio with control room
• An innovative degree that aims to prepare you for the expanding media opportunities in performance for the television, film, stage, radio and new media
• Lecturing staff and practitioners deliver both academic expertise and experience of current professional practice in theatre, TV and radio
• Close to London, the hub for the expansion of satellite, digital television, radio and it's internationally renowned ' West End Theatre Scene’.

Career Opportunities

Media Performance graduates are working in front of the camera, presenting CBBC, local community channel local-news.tv, internet sports radio, and news programmes at Anglia Television.

Others work behind the camera in creative and organisational roles as members of production teams.

Several students have entered the local radio station, BBC Three Counties Radio, which can provide a career route to national radio.

Assessment

Practical performance, presentations, essays, written exercises, journals and group work.