MA Acting for Film
University of Chichester
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MA - Master of Arts

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Bishop Otter Campus, Chichester

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FEB-26

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MA - Master of Arts

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Bishop Otter Campus, Chichester

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Our full-time MA Acting for Film course delivers highly practical training to fully equip you to transition from your undergraduate degree into the modern industry. With the rise of streaming platforms, film, voice and television production is experiencing a golden age. This full time MA is designed to deliver requisite technical and practical training in performance and creative skills to equip students for a more diverse and expansive acting career in the film and television industry. You ...Read more

Our full-time MA Acting for Film course delivers highly practical training to fully equip you to transition from your undergraduate degree into the modern industry. With the rise of streaming platforms, film, voice and television production is experiencing a golden age. This full time MA is designed to deliver requisite technical and practical training in performance and creative skills to equip students for a more diverse and expansive acting career in the film and television industry. You will be taught by working industry professionals and great emphasis is placed upon working to ‘real-world’ briefs and to ‘real-world’ deadlines. Underpinned by traditional visceral and dynamic acting classes, you will be encouraged to further explore their creativity through screenwriting, film production, directing for screen and editing. Working closely with other Masters students, you will gain further valuable acting and production experience through the numerous film projects within the course itself. These will provide excellent instruction for your better understanding of acting on film. Explore how the acting industry works and your role within it The programme also recognises the significant place the actor has in motion capture performance for the cinema and gaming industry and the demands for combat awareness together with the opportunities offered for voice-over work in radio, television, advertising, audio books, podcasts and ADR. In addition, yous will explore how to navigate the industry-specific requirements of castings, handling competition, networking and the utilisation of social media for self-promotion. The course also provides critical, self-reflective and analytical aspects of practice-based study at Master’s level and lays the groundwork for further potential study at Doctoral level. The programme also recognises the significant place the actor has in motion capture performance for the cinema and gaming industry and the demands for combat awareness together with the opportunities offered for voice-over work in radio, television, advertising, audio books, podcasts and ADR. In addition, yous will explore how to navigate the industry-specific requirements of castings, handling competition, networking and the utilisation of social media for self-promotion. The course also provides critical, self-reflective and analytical aspects of practice-based study at Master’s level and lays the groundwork for further potential study at Doctoral level.

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60th
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Laura
07 Aug 25

Chichester is a safe city/town. It’s got a really nice atmosphere to it but not the best night life. The university could do with more communication between courses, especially..Read more

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06 Mar 25

The travel to the different campuses this year has been a lot..Read more

Entry requirements

A good undergraduate degree or significant, and/or documented professional experience in film acting performance. All applicants will be auditioned.

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£11,160 per year

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£16,560 per year

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University of Chichester
University of Chichester , Chichester

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Bishop Otter Campus College Lane Chichester West Sussex PO19 6PE United Kingdom
Nearest train station: Fishbourne  1.1 miles away

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