The Level 1 Diploma in Music, Performing and Production Arts has been designed to provide you with the basic knowledge, skills and understanding necessary to access and progress to further study and training in a range of music performance and production disciplines.

This programme provides opportunities for you to explore, develop and test your creativity while enhancing self-confidence and revealing the potential career demands and opportunities within the sector.

Units include: 'an introduction to the equipment and processes used in music, performing and production arts, and the skills necessary to record and express ideas 'an understanding of how contextual research is used to support creative activities 'an introduction to the communication skills used in support of creative activities and develop an understanding of the role that communication skills play in informing and developing ideas 'an opportunity to use acquired skills, knowledge and understanding to explore and resolve creative problems 'an opportunity to develop personal strengths in music, performing and production arts and to use the knowledge, understanding and skills developed in previous units

Learn creative skills and perform in our state-of-the-art Michael Morpurgo Theatre at our Broxbourne campus.

With professional dance studios, a recording and TV studio, plus tutors with industry experience, you’ll learn the skills of the trade in preparation for your career.

Our 140-seat performance theatre, will allow you to showcase your talents with the help of the latest lighting and sound technology.

Free to Home students under 19 on 31 August.

Get set for your career in the spotlight. Learn from our expert tutors and rehearse in our professional theatre to maximise your potential on the stage.

This is where it gets serious. We can help you develop a wide and marketable range of professional performance skills. We emphasise high-level performing, supported by in-depth analysis of relevant theory.

Join us in our state-of-theatre, studio rooms and recording studios.

If you want a career working with hair, make-up and special effects in the entertainment industry this course is for you.

You will gain a wealth of practical skills in hair and make-up, and will work on live projects such as the Pantomime and other in-college theatre performances, create gruesome creatures for a live action horror maze and casualty scenes for live exhibitions.

In the second year you will learn more advanced technical skills including professional production planning and you will learn how to establish yourself as a self-employed make-up artist, giving you the business knowledge and skills to promote yourself in the industry. This exciting career-led course covers the application of specialised make-up and synthetic hair for theatrical and media purposes. You will put the workshop skills you learn into practice and document your progress in sketch books to document evidence in order to complete the units on this course.

Full-time students aged 16-18 will follow a study programme at City College which includes:

• The main subject qualification
• Work experience which is effective, relevant, and includes careers fairs, site visits, guest speakers and introduces you to the expectations of the real demands of work English and maths where students have not yet achieved GCSE grade 4 or above in these subjects
• Additional activities such as tutorials and work-related learning, to help further develop the personal skills relevant to your progression goals
• These four elements should combine to provide stretch and challenge to prepare you for progression to employment or further study.
• UCAS Tariff – Earn up to 168 UCAS points for university entry

Across the two years of this course you will learn the following:

• Professional practice for backstage hair and make-up artists
• Critical and contextual research
• Engaging with an audience through hair and make-up design
• Application of theatrical and media make-up and hair for performance (stage, TV, film, fashion)
• Hair styling and wig fitting for performers
• Fantasy and structural hair
• Special effects make-up
• Moulding and applying prosthetics
• Period make-up and hair design
• Body art and tattoo covering
• Professional production planning

If you successfully complete the first year of study you will gain a Level 3 Diploma qualification.

In order to progress to the second year you will need to pass the first year of study.

Students will have access to our purpose-built make-up studio as well as backstage areas when working on live shows.