UAL Acting Level 3

Introduction to Professional Practice Blogs

When you’re thinking “I want to act” there’s no discomfort at all. It’s warm, fuzzy and pleasant. It’s a dream. When you say “I want to act” in your dream it happens instantly. You get the perfect role in the perfect project. Everything is warm, fuzzy and pleasant. But it doesn’t work that way for thousands and thousands of wannabe actors.Performing Art can come with variety of roles through out the performing art industry.

Variety of differing roles

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• Actor.
• Animator.
• Arts administrator.
• Audio-visual technician.
• Broadcast engineer.
• Broadcast journalist.
• Choreographer.

The list can go on forever and ever. But the most important part is that acting isn't just about thew roles that you can develop from it but a love and passion to just have fun as well.In my opinion The performing arts are great for helping me to develop  creative skills. There are no wrong answers, and everyone is actively encouraged to express new and alternative opinions. In fact, the performing arts can improve and develop many different skills, all of which will play a big role in adult life.  

In order to work as an actor,my chosen career path would to have finished Level 3 UAL course with flying colours then go on to CentraL Saint Martin to go and do my Ba Hons in Acting.A Drama Centre course at Central Saint Martins. BA Acting prepares you for direct entry to the profession while laying the foundations for a lifelong acting career.

The intense and vocational course is inspired by teaching giants such as Stanislavsky, Vakhtangov and Yat Malmgren, and benefits from extensive industry contacts.

Great reasons to apply:

I'll be guided by a core team of dedicated and highly gifted teachers whose work is adventurous, modern and international. Our actor training is a unique blend of character analysis, contemporary Stanislavsky, and Vakhtangov’s ‘Fantastic Realism’
• BA (Hons) Acting offers a prestigious and highly-regarded conservatoire training for professional theatre and recorded media.  It provides an innovative and methodological approach to developing the actor’s unique talent. A very small cohort ensures maximum individual attention and world-class education and training for life
• BA Acting is one of the courses in the Programme that originates from the unique approach and techniques that were developed by Yat Malmgren and the course originated from Drama Centre London
• I'll benefit from close links with the MA Directing course at Drama Centre London and collaborations with students from the vibrant artistic culture of Central Saint Martins and the University of the Arts London, including designers, artists, film-makers and writers
• Strong contacts with the profession, including regular visits from distinguished practitioners, alumni, visiting professors and freelance directors
• Their agents showcase opens doors to professional opportunities during the later stages of the course: in recent years students still in training have secured prestigious professional engagements
• Five minutes’ walk from St Pancras International, we are at the heart of dynamic, multicultural London, the theatre capital of the world.

  Voice of an actor

There are several exercises you can do to extend your vocal range. In the lesson we were able to control our breathing and voice together. We needed to consider the vocal elements at your disposal. Think about your character's accent and register, and the type of performance required. You can practice your articulation and breathing.An actor needs to be able to project their voice but still keep connected to the emotional truth of the character.

The voice tells us so much about a person. Where they come from, their personality and how they’re feeling.Here are some of the warm up we did in the first week of the course. 
Vocal workshop by Rob Alexander
We firstly started off by relaxing and breathing for a warm up. Inhaling through our voice and when exhaling slide our voice out until the breath is out. Breathing exercises can ensure the voice is supported will help the project from our voice. Standing in a neutral position will also help with concentration and relaxation.

Finishing off that warm up we moved onto our vowels,that consisted with OO,OH,ORE.With your hand on your diaphragm, breathe in through your nose for five seconds. Hold your breath for 10 seconds and then breathe out through your mouth steadily for five seconds. Practice pushing out the breath for longer and then with a voiced vowel sound. Oo,Oh and Ore altogether.and continue to do so until the instruct says to stop. Warm in up the vowels can help when is comes to ensuring the words on a script or poem is said full and and the breaking down of words when confused of the spelling.

The thirdly  stage consisted with us using our consonants C,G,L,N,D,T,M,P and B. We were instructed to use mainly our tongue,lips,teeth and voice.This is an excellent exercise for improving articulation and can be used for plosives and other consonants to stop them becoming weak or splashy.This exercise will help our word fly out into the auditorium with sufficient force or energy to make an impact.Focus on keeping the sound clear, crisp and precise.


After perfecting our consonants ,vowels and breathing we where able to put it into practice. We were each split into groups reading 3 different poems. when practicing with poems it is harder to  be true throughout the text for and actor, but as actors we need embody a role or character in that time.When reciting the poem we will be critiqued on and given feedback.