Contemporary Screen Acting BA (Hons) degree at University of the West of Scotland is a unique two-year degree niche programme specifically aimed at enterprising acting students committed to exploring the use of New Media and Digital platforms for the recording and delivery of their creative acting talent. The course offers a unique blend of student experience in the practical and theoretical study of contemporary screen acting by the use of several new core modules. These are specifically designed to combine creativity, flexibility, commerciality and enterprise. The course will appeal to students on a full-time basis, but due to flexible delivery, will also be an attractive prospect for actors who wish to expand their acting abilities. You will develop your skills in voice and movement, screen acting, editing, selfrecording, screen presentation and studio acting for green screen. Supported by industry practitioner professionals, you will make short films and online dramas, create your own digital show-reel and use social media to launch your professional screen career using our state-of-the-art facilities at Ayr Campus. Uniquely, Contemporary Screen Acting students will gain experience of working with external client groups such as small and medium enterprises, community groups, charities and voluntary bodies. Our student actors work with these groups to create an authentic creative relationship between the University and the creative industry. Our students publicise their client’s activities on the web through the creation of interactive mini-dramas, training videos, webisodes or viral ads. In addition, our students are taught to create, record, edit and publish their own web deliverable screen actor’s online show-reel.

You will enter the job market as a trained, skilled, digitally literate screen actor capable of marketing yourself within the creative industries as a whole, and on the web in particular. UWS graduates on this programme have gone on to act in broadcast television, feature films and corporate videos. They have also gone on to form their own video production companies, have moved on to gaining postgraduate teaching qualifications, and have embarked on masters or PhD level studies.