Diploma in Drama (Screen Acting)

Yoobee Colleges

This two-year diploma offers in-depth training in voice, body, imagination, and collaboration, allowing you to develop your acting toolbox. You will be further challenged with opportunities for live performance, while being guided and advised on how to form industry networks – a crucial part of gaining relevance in an ever-evolving industry. Year One: Critic, develop, reflect and succeed: Alongside developing specific skills for working on-screen, you will engage in rigorous physical and vocal training and be introduced to multiple approaches to acting. You will develop skills in analysing text and reflect on your own performance and progress. Practise makes perfect: You will practise your craft on and off camera, and your familiarity and confidence with the technical aspects of screen acting will grow throughout the year. You will gain a deeper understanding of acting through our holistic approach. Year Two: You get to tell your story: A key element of your second year will be providing you with the skills to create your own work, this will take the form of collaborative workshops and a screen project led by an industry professional. You will have further training in acting techniques and many opportunities to practice with industry mentors and directors. We refine your techniques: We provide you with a range of physical and vocal specialist workshops with access to smaller group sessions, addressing your own specific goals. These in-depth workshops include accent development, voice overs, motion capture, and other technique aspects for you to further develop on. Showcase your project: We bring in a range of specialist industry professionals throughout the year, to support your core training. You will be guided in developing your self-taping skills and audition techniques. At the end of the year, you will collaborate with a professional director to shoot your showcase piece and graduate with showcase material to introduce you to the industry and emerge as an actor, a collaborator and a creative.

Faculty of Film