This module enables you to demonstrate to a high level the in-depth practical skills and theoretical knowledge accumulated during your programme of study.
You will be asked to generate an independent, sustained piece of work that will be indicative of the advancement of your critical and analytical thought and artistic creation.
You will be asked to form a team, collaborate with your fellow students and show ethos and responsibility to create your final piece.
You will be prepared and empowered to take initiative apposite and responsibility and control of your work.
You will have the support of a professional screen writer and a filming crew.
During the module you will continue to produce and refine your project work with relevant research supported by tutorials.
You will be asked to review and analyse your work through a dissertation or negotiated alternative that will be approved by a negotiated learning contract.
Finally, at the end of the module you will receive summative feedback for your learning journey throughout the MA and consider your future career possibilities and trajectories.

Assessment 1: LO 1
Assessment 2: LO 1,2,3,4
Assessment 3: LO 2,3,5
Assessment 1: the film will be accompanied by a script in the language of the performance and appropriate translation and subtitles in English if not performed in English
Assessment 2: this assessment will be done in Greek with English subtitles as required.
Assessment 3: this assessment will be done in English

The practical work for this module is student-led, informed and supported by the learning to date on the MA programme. It actively encourages and promotes heuristic principles of learning. Students will determine their own working timetable, modes and methods of working, establish targets and set deadlines and take collective control and ownership of their work. They will work independently, interpersonally and under pressure with flexibility, imagination, self- motivation and organisation. They will explore critical perspectives on relevant theories and debates in relation to acting for screen, referring to film history, acting for screen techniques, principles and genres.
After the completion of the project they will be involved in a series of staff and student led feedback practices and processes. They will then analyse and reflect upon their creative achievement and learning in the form of a negotiated and agreed assessment which will be 6,000 words or equivalent.

Module Learning Outcome
1. Create, develop and complete a short film and realise your material through rehearsal, shooting and editing.

University Learning Outcome
Application

Module Learning Outcome
2. Demonstrate mastery in your own practice, drawing on cutting edge professional working methods of your choosing, framed by academic discourse and understanding.

University Learning Outcome
Learning, Knowledge and Understanding

Module Learning Outcome
3. Implement an advanced, informed, ethical and innovative set of critical, creative and interpretive acting for the screen skills.

University Learning Outcome
Enquiry, Application

Module Learning Outcome
4. Complete a final piece of work which will show your creative perception of the field, and which will contribute to the field original material.

University Learning Outcome
Problem Solving, Reflection, Application

Module Learning Outcome
5. Critically reflect upon the efficacy of your rehearsal, performance and shooting processes, and articulate, justify and/or defend choices made, evidencing how these impacted on the project’s creation, development and performance.

University Learning Outcome
Analysis, Reflection

The rehearsal rooms and studios of UNICERT College – on location – Cameras and filming equipment.

Indicative bibliography:
Baron, C. and Carnicke, S. M. (2011), Reframing Screen Performance, Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press
Bell, J. and Waters, S. (2018). Doing Your Research Project. Amacom.
Churcher, M. (2003) Acting for Film: Truth 24 Times a Second, London: Virgin Books
Comey, J. (2002) The Art of Film Acting, London: Routledge
Corrigan, T. and White, P. (2017) The Film Experience, New York: Bedford/Saint Martin’s, 5th edition
Dick, B. F. (2009) The Anatomy of Film, Boston & New York: Bedford/St Martin’s, 6th edition
Huet, A. (2006) The Script (El Guion), Barcelona: Ediciones Paidos Iberica
McNiff, S (2013) Art as Research: Opportunities and Challenges. Intellect Books
Nelson, R (2017). Practice as Research in the Arts. London: Palgrave Macmillan
Smith, H. (2009). Practice-led Research, Research-led practice in the Creative Arts Edinburgh University Press.
Swain, J. H. (2018) The Science and Art of Acting for the Camera. A Practical Approach to Film, Television, and Commercial Actin, London and New York: Routledge
Thomas, J. (2009) Script Analysis for Actors, Directors and Designers, London and New York: Routledge, 5th edition
Tucker, P. (2014) Secrets of Screen Acting, London and New York: Routledge, 3rd edition

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