Unit 10
Pros and Cons of HE:
Higher education has many benefits and consequences. One aspect of higher education is drama schools. One pro of going to drama school is that teaches highly advance techniques for acting, breathing and much more. At drama school you will learn the very best breathing techniques that will advance your cardiovascular fitness. You'll also have your voice trained so you can have a more fluent voice. This will help your singing, as well as your control of your voice. You'll be able to learn accents and different voice warm ups that will make you be able to perfect your voice.
Also at drama school you will learn incredible movement techniques. This will allow you to become one with your body, being able to control your at will. So basically it will make you very fit. It will also advance your dancing. Many things you will do are yoga, Pilates, and advance movement warm up exercises. So overall with a well trained voice and body there is a lot of options that can open up from there.
Another thing drama school will give me is huge practise with helpful acting techniques from the likes of practitioners such as Meisner and Stanislavky. You'll learn techniques such as the 'through line' and objectives and actions. Exploring both of these practitioners that contradict each other so much allows you to try both ends of the scale and see what works for you.
In addition to that, at drama school you also explore numerous playwrights where you will study the contexts of their works. This is really good practise for going into the industry because it means that you are a theatre trained actor. An amazing thing about drama school is that you will put on lots of productions in multiple different venues. This allows you to get tremendous experience meaning where you go into the industry you would have already been to the top theatres in the country and had onstage experience.
Moreover, at drama school you also have lots of connections to the industry that will help when you leave. One thing that happens in the third year is that everyone gets an agent. This sets you up brilliantly for after higher education and gives you a lot of options. Having connections isn't everything, but you could find yourself getting more and more connections just from a couple of connections, just like branches off of a tree. One thing that is great about drama school is that it could set you up to not just be an actor, but you could do all kind of roles such as: directors, scriptwriters, lighting technicians, cameramen, or even runners.
One good thing about university is that the course is more well rounded. It basically gives you everything, from parts of the intense drama school training to academic training that more suits a university. The academic part of it allows you to extend your mind and your learning. Also being in a university means you are around students who are doing all kind of things, so you could easily get a taste of what other courses are like.
The cons of drama school hugely revolve around the cost. It is very expensive and hard to get in, meaning at the end of it all, if you have found that the dramatic industry isn't for you, then it could have been a waste of time.
Therefore if it had a more academic side to it it would allow more options after HE. Lastly drama schools tend to take older people meaning younger people barely make it in.
A one year drama school course can sometimes be too much in too little time and it might not give you time to soak in and reflect information. A third year drama school course however is the opposite to that and gives students time to learn, understand and cooperate it into their work.
The cons of universities are that they don't teach you the amount that drama school teaches you which could leave you with gaps of knowledge. Another thing is that it teaches academicly which isn't for everyone.
Finally, just in case you didn't want to go to HE, you could you apprenticeships, make your own theatre company, audition for films and much more. This could work out however there are people who are looking for experience.
You could write plays and put them on in theatres, you could make your own theatre company and put on plays on different venues. Some people prefer the approach of jumping straight into the industry to going to HE. However like I mentioned earlier you might realise after college that you don't want to do anything to do with the performing arts and might want to do something else so you could always go and pursue other stuff.
Higher education has many benefits and consequences. One aspect of higher education is drama schools. One pro of going to drama school is that teaches highly advance techniques for acting, breathing and much more. At drama school you will learn the very best breathing techniques that will advance your cardiovascular fitness. You'll also have your voice trained so you can have a more fluent voice. This will help your singing, as well as your control of your voice. You'll be able to learn accents and different voice warm ups that will make you be able to perfect your voice.
Also at drama school you will learn incredible movement techniques. This will allow you to become one with your body, being able to control your at will. So basically it will make you very fit. It will also advance your dancing. Many things you will do are yoga, Pilates, and advance movement warm up exercises. So overall with a well trained voice and body there is a lot of options that can open up from there.
Another thing drama school will give me is huge practise with helpful acting techniques from the likes of practitioners such as Meisner and Stanislavky. You'll learn techniques such as the 'through line' and objectives and actions. Exploring both of these practitioners that contradict each other so much allows you to try both ends of the scale and see what works for you.
In addition to that, at drama school you also explore numerous playwrights where you will study the contexts of their works. This is really good practise for going into the industry because it means that you are a theatre trained actor. An amazing thing about drama school is that you will put on lots of productions in multiple different venues. This allows you to get tremendous experience meaning where you go into the industry you would have already been to the top theatres in the country and had onstage experience.
Moreover, at drama school you also have lots of connections to the industry that will help when you leave. One thing that happens in the third year is that everyone gets an agent. This sets you up brilliantly for after higher education and gives you a lot of options. Having connections isn't everything, but you could find yourself getting more and more connections just from a couple of connections, just like branches off of a tree. One thing that is great about drama school is that it could set you up to not just be an actor, but you could do all kind of roles such as: directors, scriptwriters, lighting technicians, cameramen, or even runners.
One good thing about university is that the course is more well rounded. It basically gives you everything, from parts of the intense drama school training to academic training that more suits a university. The academic part of it allows you to extend your mind and your learning. Also being in a university means you are around students who are doing all kind of things, so you could easily get a taste of what other courses are like.
The cons of drama school hugely revolve around the cost. It is very expensive and hard to get in, meaning at the end of it all, if you have found that the dramatic industry isn't for you, then it could have been a waste of time.
Therefore if it had a more academic side to it it would allow more options after HE. Lastly drama schools tend to take older people meaning younger people barely make it in.
A one year drama school course can sometimes be too much in too little time and it might not give you time to soak in and reflect information. A third year drama school course however is the opposite to that and gives students time to learn, understand and cooperate it into their work.
The cons of universities are that they don't teach you the amount that drama school teaches you which could leave you with gaps of knowledge. Another thing is that it teaches academicly which isn't for everyone.
Finally, just in case you didn't want to go to HE, you could you apprenticeships, make your own theatre company, audition for films and much more. This could work out however there are people who are looking for experience.
You could write plays and put them on in theatres, you could make your own theatre company and put on plays on different venues. Some people prefer the approach of jumping straight into the industry to going to HE. However like I mentioned earlier you might realise after college that you don't want to do anything to do with the performing arts and might want to do something else so you could always go and pursue other stuff.
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