MA Acting for Film
Master the craft of acting on camera
Master the craft of acting on camera
- Expand and enrich your skillset to deepen your performances on camera
- Develop your creative and technical skills
- Learn from working industry professionals who really get to know you
- Graduate with a professional showreel and voice reel
Overview
Graduate with an expanded and enriched skillset for performance on camera
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 鈥榬eal-world鈥� briefs and to 鈥榬eal-world鈥� deadlines.
Gain valuable practical experience
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鈥檚 level and lays the groundwork for further potential study at Doctoral level.
The Course
Develop your industry-aligned performance practice
Through this programme of film acting and creativity, you will graduate with an expanded and enriched skillset for performance on camera together with a professional showreel and voice reel that will allow you to compete in the highly competitive and professional field of acting for film.
Modules
Acting for Film Performance Projects
This module runs across the 3 semesters of the programme. It gives you the opportunity to capture a range of screen acting performances. You will continue to develop your reflective practitioner understanding, and through continual acting technique classes, acquire deeper awareness of your specialist area. The range of work produced will enable you to create professional level content for your showreels and websites, enhancing your employability opportunities.
Social Media Content & Performance Projects
This module runs across 2 semesters of the programme and you will engage with the key concepts of online visibility in relation to the contemporary screen actor. You will explore the productive employment possibilities of networking online and creating promotional material for yourself as an actor and content producer. Through discussion and instructive learning in class you will evolve your skill in both the technical and practical development of these crafts.
Research and the Industry
Taken by all MA students within the department, this module will assist you in developing a critical awareness and systematic understanding of current insights at the forefront of the discipline of acting and its relationship with society and culture.聽 This conceptual understanding will enable you to evaluate current methodologies in a scholarly way and make discerned choices about how to apply these in practice.
This module will also assist you in advancing your writing skills so that you are able to debate critically and reflect on your own practice to a professional standard.
Specialist Craft Skills
Running across semester blocks 1 & 2, this module aims to give you the opportunity to develop a range of enhanced tradecraft skills. Recognising the emerging technologies and new platforms actors are expected to engage with, this module is experiential, dynamic and physically demanding.
You will work across numerous fields of practice relating to screenwriting, film production and capturing authentic acting performances for film, TV, games and animation. The training gained through this module will underpin and inform the creative requirement for all Acting for Film Performance and Research modules.
Dissertation Project
In this independent, project-driven, module, you have the opportunity to pursue your own enthusiasms and specialisms.聽 This will take the form of a single large-scale specialist production supported by critical reflective analysis.
Teaching and Assessment
Feel the support of our expert and experienced staff
Smaller class sizes for better learning
You will build your subject knowledge and practical experience through lectures, workshops, and tutorials in small classes, which means our expert teaching staff really get to know you and what support you need.
Assessments
You will be assessed through a range of assignments including practical acting pieces, projects, and essays, which are often recorded with high production values to enable you to use them as part of a professional showreel that you can use once you graduate.
Facilities and Experience
Discover dedicated performance spaces and specialist equipment to support your learning
Access facilities that include:
- Dedicated acting rooms
- Access to lighting and sound equipment
- Access to high quality 4K cameras and DSLRs
- Comprehensive technical support
- Additional kit includes 32ft jib and Steadicam
- Editing suite
Close community
Our commitment to a friendly and close-knit student community contributes to a high degree of success for our graduates.
Learning Resource Centre
The Learning Resource Centre (LRC) contains the library, a caf茅, IT/teaching rooms, and the Support and Information Zone (SIZ).
Library
Our campus library holds more than 200,000 books and over 500,000 eBooks.
Careers
Where you could go after your studies
Our MA Acting for Film degree will prepare you for a range of careers in within the film industry.
As performers, past graduates have worked in:
- Commercial film production
- Independent film production
- Commercial television
- Music video
- Voice-over
- Corporate media
- The games industry
- Website video production
Course Costs
Course Fees 2025/26
UK fee
International fee
For further details about fees, please see our Tuition Fee page.
八卦爆料 alumni who have completed a full undergraduate degree at the University will receive a 15% discount on their postgraduate fees.
Entry Requirements
- a good undergraduate degree or significant, and/or documented professional experience in film acting performance
- applicants will also need to meet the minimum English language requirement of an IELTS score of 6.5 overall with no component below 5.5, or an equivalent recognised test. Visit our English Language Requirements page for more information
All applicants will be auditioned.
International students who don't meet the entry requirements
If you are an international student and do not yet meet the entry criteria for this course, you may be eligible for our International Premaster’s Programme. This is a one-semester programme that allows you to progress onto a master’s course at the 八卦爆料.
Interviews and Auditions
We aim to offer you a genuine dialogue during your application process. This gives you a sense of worth and achievement from the audition process itself; a sense of ownership for you during the process and, ultimately, is an opportunity for us to get a clear understanding of who you are, what you need, and how we can best prepare you for your degree.
We judge you on your skills, your potential, and your personality, not your background.
If you are invited to audition you will receive an email asking you to book your audition date on ChiView. If you are unsuccessful we will email you to let you know.
You can usually choose between multiple days on ChiView at one time. If none of the current dates suit you please contact admissions@chi.ac.uk.
Once you have booked your audition, you will be able to access the audition guidance document on ChiView 鈥� just log into the ChiView portal, click on 鈥楨vents schedule鈥� and then 鈥榁iew details鈥� to access the document, which will tell you how to prepare for your audition, what to expect on the day, etc.
If your situation changes and you can no longer attend your audition date, you should cancel your booking in ChiView by visiting your 鈥楨vent Schedule鈥� and clicking 鈥楥ancel Attendance鈥�. You also need to inform the admissions team by emailing admissions@chi.ac.uk, so we can send you a new audition invitation.
Sometimes if you are viewing your ChiView portal on a phone you will not be able to see the page correctly. If this happens you should try again on another device.
You may need to clear your browser history.聽
If you are still unable to see the 鈥榁iew details鈥� button, please check that you have successfully booked your audition by clicking 鈥榬espond to interview invitation鈥�.
If all else fails please email admissions@chi.ac.uk with your query and applicant number.
Once you have booked your audition, please log into the ChiView portal, click on 鈥楨vents schedule鈥� and then 鈥榁iew details鈥� to access the audition guidance document, which will tell you (amongst other things) what will happen at the audition itself, a basic itinerary of the whole day, parking information, etc.
In brief, there should be an introductory talk by the department, the chance to meet lecturers and other applicants, as well as your opportunity to perform for the audition panel.
After your audition, the panel will discuss your performance and pass our decision onto the admissions team, who will email you with the outcome, whatever it might be.
Enquire
This course is subject to approval, with an anticipated September 2025 start date. Please email Alison Woodward at a.woodward@chi.ac.uk to register your interest in this course, or for any further enquiries you may have.
