FT3PACT: The Professional Actor: Stage and Screen

Module code: FT3PACT

Module provider: Film, Theatre and TV; School of Arts and Comm Design

Credits: 20

Level: 6

When you’ll be taught: Semester 2

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Placement information: NA

Academic year: 2026/7

Available to visiting students: No

Talis reading list: Yes

Last updated: 21 April 2026

Overview

Module aims and purpose

This is practical acting module supported by professional tutors. The focus is on career-readiness and professional development. This will include a showcase of monologues at a London theatre, with invited industry professionals. You’ll have the opportunity to create a showreel to highlight your skills and range. You will learn how to self-tape. You will participate in student films and productions to gain further experience. You will also reflect on your next steps after graduation.

Module learning outcomes

By the end of the module, it is expected that students will be able to:

1. Demonstrate their ability to integrate acquired knowledge and expertise from earlier modules to develop their professional identity, reflecting and addressing industry readiness. 
2. Demonstrate an embodied understanding of relevant performance techniques, including developing an informed and critical approach to a text or score.
3. Develop professional competencies in acting and performance while critically reflecting on the presentation of their skills and next steps.

Module content

This module builds and develops the practical vocal and physical skills acquired in the first two years of the degree, expanding core vocal and performance abilities while providing opportunities for pursuing individual interests through independent practice as research. The module will focus on preparing students for industry and next steps. Students will blend this analysis with their embodied knowledge, to develop and perform their own monologue and create a showreel.

Structure

Teaching and learning methods

Workshops and rehearsals will be the primary mode of teaching in this module. Within these, mini-seminars and lectures will be included to analyse performance/acting theorists and techniques. This is a studio-based module where students will be expected to learn and perform a monologue as well as additional in-class formative performance exercises to pursue their own interests through leading a short workshop in class. They will develop their work in independent rehearsal sessions. Students will need to carry out their own independent research on texts and relevant contexts as well as acting theories that will influence their own creative work. 

Study hours

At least 40 hours of scheduled teaching and learning activities will be delivered in person, with the remaining hours for scheduled and self-scheduled teaching and learning activities delivered either in person or online. You will receive further details about how these hours will be delivered before the start of the module.

Please note the independent study hours above are notional numbers of hours; each student will approach studying in different ways. We would advise you to reflect on your learning and the number of hours you are allocating to these tasks.

Semester 1 The hours in this column may include hours during the Christmas holiday period.

Semester 2 The hours in this column may include hours during the Easter holiday period.

Summer The hours in this column will take place during the summer holidays and may be at the start and/or end of the module.

Assessment

Requirements for a pass

Students need to achieve an overall module mark of 40% to pass this module.

Summative assessment

Penalties for late submission of summative assessment

The Support Centres will apply the following penalties for work submitted late:

Assessments with numerical marks

• where the piece of work is submitted after the original deadline (or a DAS-agreed extension as a reasonable adjustment indicated in your Individual Learning Plan): 10% of the total marks available for that piece of work will be deducted from the mark for each calendar day (or part thereof) following the deadline up to a total of three calendar days;
• where the piece of work is submitted up to three calendar days after the original deadline (or a DAS-agreed extension as a reasonable adjustment indicated in you Individual Learning Plan), the mark awarded due to the imposition of the penalty shall not fall below the threshold pass mark, namely 40% in the case of modules at Levels 4-6 (i.e. undergraduate modules for Parts 1-3) and 50% in the case of Level 7 modules offered as part of an Integrated Masters or taught postgraduate degree programme;
• where the piece of work is awarded a mark below the threshold pass mark prior to any penalty being imposed, and is submitted up to three calendar days after the original deadline (or a DAS-agreed extension as a reasonable adjustment indicated in your Individual Learning Plan), no penalty shall be imposed;
• where the piece of work is submitted more than three calendar days after the original deadline (or a DAS-agreed extension as a reasonable adjustment indicated in your Individual Learning Plan): a mark of zero will be recorded.

Assessments marked Pass/Fail

• where the piece of work is submitted within three calendar days of the deadline (or a DAS-agreed extension as a reasonable adjustment indicated in your Individual Learning Plan): no penalty will be applied;
• where the piece of work is submitted more than three calendar days after the original deadline (or a DAS-agreed extension as a reasonable adjustment indicated in your Individual Learning Plan): a grade of Fail will be awarded.

Where a piece of work is submitted late after a deadline which has been revised owing to an extension granted through the Assessment Adjustments policy and process (self-certified or otherwise), it will be subject to the maximum penalty (i.e., considered to be more than three calendar days late). This will also apply when such an extension is used in conjunction with a DAS-agreed extension as a reasonable adjustment.

The University policy statement on penalties for late submission can be found at: /cqsd/-/media/project/functions/cqsd/documents/qap/penaltiesforlatesubmission.pdf

You are strongly advised to ensure that coursework is submitted by the relevant deadline. You should note that it is advisable to submit work in an unfinished state rather than to fail to submit any work.

Formative assessment

Formative assessment is any task or activity which creates feedback (or feedforward) for you about your learning, but which does not contribute towards your overall module mark.

In class formative exercises will include formative feedback to develop summative work.

Reassessment

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