BA (Hons) Make-up for Media and Performance gives you the skills that you need to play a key creative role in performance, fashion, film or television.

Our recent graduates have worked on television and film productions (such as The Last of Us, The Marvels, Paddington in Peru, The Gentlemen, Thor: The Dark World, Wheel of Time, The Crown, Ted Lasso, Doctor Who, Coronation Street, and Casualty), theatre productions at the Royal Shakespeare Company and the English National Opera, musicals (such as Tina, Wicked, Mary Poppins, Matilda and Priscilla Queen of the Desert), and at London Fashion Week and Warner Bros. Studios, Leavesden.

The make-up artist is an important member of any production team, and you’ll have the chance to work with students who are studying BA (Hons) Acting, Film Production, Costume, Design for Costume and Performance, Commercial Photography, Visual Effects, Fashion and Fashion Communication to create ‘live’ collaborative projects. On this course, you’ll learn a diverse range of make-up skills. You’ll study make-up and hair design for drama, ballet, opera and music. A different perspective will give you the skills for fashion and photography shoots. You’ll also construct wigs and hairpieces and create prosthetic make-up FX for film and television. In short, you’ll develop skills that are a real asset to a wide range of performance industries, from theatre to TV, and from the music business to the world of fashion and film.

Placement year

All undergraduate courses at AUB offer an optional placement year, to be taken between your second and third years of study.

If you’re unsure about this optional placement, you don’t need to decide now. Once you’re here and studying with us, the course team will discuss the placement options with you, so when the time comes, you can make a decision that’s right for you.