Diploma Admissions

Entry requirements

ACADEMIC REQUIREMENTS

Singapore
  • Singapore
  • International
Qualifications Remarks

 

The qualifications listed below are common entry qualifications submitted by applicants.

  • Singapore-Cambridge GCE O-Level with a pass in English at Grade C6 or better, and an aggregate score of 25 points or better in four other GCE O-Level subjects
  • GCSE/IGCSE (five subject passes, including English, at Grade 9-4)
  • Full-time Higher Nitec/Nitec
  • Singapore Integrated Programme (successfully completed Year 4 or higher)
Entry into IELTS Academic TOEFL (iBT) PTE Academic Duolingo English Test
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ADMISSIONS TEST / PORTFOLIO / AUDITION AND INTERVIEW REQUIREMENTS

Animation
  • Animation
  • Audio Production
  • Broadcast Media
  • Dance
  • Design for Communication and Experiences
  • Creative Direction for Fashion
  • Interior Design
  • Fine Arts
  • Music
  • Performance
  • Theatre Production and Management

Admissions test or portfolio

  • You are required to either take an admissions test or submit a portfolio.

Option 1: Admissions test

  • The admissions test is only available to applicants from Singapore and in selected cities in China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam and Myanmar, subject to availability of test schedules. You will be notified of the required materials to bring along for the admissions test.

Option 2: Portfolio

  • Your portfolio should contain 10–15 pieces of original work from at least two of the following categories: paintings, drawings, collages, posters, sculptures, digital images (Photoshop, Illustrator, etc), photographs, and/or video clips. These works should demonstrate your creative development and process and be created solely by you (not from a photograph, magazine or copied from a reproduction of another source).
  • You are required to upload your portfolio online and label each work as follows:
    (i) Title of your work (if any)
    (ii) Medium used
    (iii) Month/year created

If we wish to know more about your artwork from the admissions test or your portfolio, we will arrange for a discussion with you.

Portfolio
To determine your suitability for the programme, you will need to submit a portfolio.

Your portfolio should include two samples of your work. Examples include music productions, original compositions recorded and produced by you or a video recording of a live performance where you were an integral part of a live sound reinforcement production. Your submission will need to be in .wav, .aiff, .mov or .mp4 format and uploaded online.

Additional requirement

  • You are also required to complete an online audio production test set by the School of Contemporary Music.

If we wish to know more about your portfolio, we will arrange for a discussion with you.

Admissions test or portfolio

You are required to either take an admissions test or submit a portfolio.

Option 1: Admissions test

  • The admissions test is only available to applicants from Singapore and in selected cities in China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam and Myanmar, subject to availability of test schedules. You will be notified of the required materials to bring along for the admissions test.

Option 2: Portfolio

  • Your portfolio should contain 10–15 pieces of original work from at least two of the following categories: paintings, drawings, collages, posters, sculptures, digital images (Photoshop, Illustrator, etc), photographs, and/or video clips. These works should demonstrate your creative development and process and be created solely by you (not from a photograph, magazine or copied from a reproduction of another source).
  • You are required to upload your portfolio online and label each work as follows:
    (i) Title of your work (if any)
    (ii) Medium used
    (iii) Month/year created

If we wish to know more about your artwork from the admissions test or your portfolio, we will arrange for a discussion with you

Audition
To determine your suitability for the programme, you will need to undergo an audition.

You will need to prepare a 1–3 minute self-choreographed solo, of any genre, in response to one of the following themes/stimuli:

  1. Create a work that develops a narrative of your choice.
  2. Windows.
  3. Architecture.
  4. Cycles.
  5. Pick a painting or sculpture that you are attracted to and choreograph your response to it (please bring a copy of this picture).
  6. Pick a poem that you find meaningful and choreograph your response to it (please bring a copy of this poem).

In this segment, you will be assessed on your expressions, commitment, embodied presence and ability to respond to this brief. Your solo may be performed in silence or to music, with or without specific costume choices. Choose your music or soundscape carefully to support your choreography.

You will also attend a dance class that will need you to demonstrate the following:

  1. A combination of going to the floor and recovering up in various forms.
  2. Elevation or jumps within a movement sequence.
  3. Extension of the body and the coordinated use of the legs.
  4. Extended sequence of movements that deals with folding in the body, fall and balance, circles and alternating leading with the upper body and the legs.

It is advisable that you thoroughly warm up and wear appropriate dance wear and footwear for the audition.

International applicants

If you cannot attend the audition at LASALLE, an online audition will be arranged.

If we wish to know more about your audition, we will arrange for a discussion with you.

Admissions test or portfolio

You are required to either take an admissions test or submit a portfolio.

Option 1: Admissions test

  • The Admissions Test is only available to applicants from Singapore and in selected cities in China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam and Myanmar, subject to availability of test schedules. You will be notified of the required materials to bring along for the Admissions Test.

Option 2: Portfolio

  • Your portfolio should contain 10–15 pieces of original work from at least two of the following categories: paintings, drawings, collages, posters, sculptures, digital images (Photoshop, Illustrator, etc), photographs, and/or video clips. These works should demonstrate your creative development and process and be created solely by you (not from a photograph, magazine or copied from a reproduction of another source).
  • You are required to upload your portfolio online and label each work as follows:
    (i) Title of your work (if any)
    (ii) Medium used
    (iii) Month/year created

If we wish to know more about your artwork from the admissions test or your portfolio, we will arrange for a discussion with you.

Admissions test or portfolio

You are required to either take an admissions test or submit a portfolio.

Option 1: Admissions test

  • The Admissions Test is only available to applicants from Singapore and in selected cities in China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam and Myanmar, subject to availability of test schedules. You will be notified of the required materials to bring along for the admissions test.

Option 2: Portfolio

  • Your portfolio should contain 10–15 pieces of original work from at least two of the following categories: paintings, drawings, collages, posters, sculptures, digital images (Photoshop, Illustrator, etc), photographs, and/or video clips. These works should demonstrate your creative development and process and be created solely by you (not from a photograph, magazine or copied from a reproduction of another source).
  • You are required to upload your portfolio online and label each work as follows:
    (i) Title of your work (if any)
    (ii) Medium used
    (iii) Month/year created

If we wish to know more about your artwork from the admissions test or your portfolio, we will arrange for a discussion with you.

Admissions test or portfolio

You are required to either take an admissions test or submit a portfolio.

Option 1: Admissions test

  • The admissions test is only available to applicants from Singapore and in selected cities in China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam and Myanmar, subject to availability of test schedules. You will be notified of the required materials to bring along for the admissions test.

Option 2: Portfolio

  • Your portfolio should contain 10–15 pieces of original work from at least two of the following categories: paintings, drawings, collages, posters, sculptures, digital images (Photoshop, Illustrator, etc), photographs, and/or video clips. These works should demonstrate your creative development and process and be created solely by you (not from a photograph, magazine or copied from a reproduction of another source).
  • You are required to upload your portfolio online and label each work as follows:
    (i) Title of your work (if any)
    (ii) Medium used
    (iii) Month/year created

If we wish to know more about your artwork from the admissions test or your portfolio, we will arrange for a discussion with you.

Admissions test or portfolio

You are required to either take an admissions test or submit a portfolio.

Option 1: Admissions test

  • The admissions test is only available to applicants from Singapore and in selected cities in China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam and Myanmar, subject to availability of test schedules. You will be notified of the required materials to bring along for the admissions test.

Option 2: Portfolio

  • Your portfolio should contain 10–15 pieces of original work from at least two of the following categories: paintings, drawings, collages, posters, sculptures, digital images (Photoshop, Illustrator, etc), photographs, and/or video clips. These works should demonstrate your creative development and process and be created solely by you (not from a photograph, magazine or copied from a reproduction of another source).
  • You are required to upload your portfolio online and label each work as follows:
    (i) Title of your work (if any)
    (ii) Medium used
    (iii) Month/year created

If we wish to know more about your artwork from the admissions test or your portfolio, we will arrange for a discussion with you.

To determine your suitability for the programme, you will need to submit an audition recording to help us understand your technical and musical abilities.

Audition recording
You will need to submit a video recording of three contrasting pieces of music in any style that will demonstrate your technical and musical abilities most effectively.

Three contrasting pieces may refer to different tempos (e.g. ballad, medium tempo, fast tempo), different styles (e.g. pop, jazz, funk), different genres in one style (e.g. rock ballad, rock-pop, hard rock), different meters (e.g. 4/4, 3/4, 6/8), different periods (e.g. Baroque, Classical, Romantic), or any characteristic that renders the pieces contrasting.

In your video(s), you must perform each of the three pieces in its entirety, not just sections.

  • For voice auditions, vocal recordings must have an accompaniment. You can either sing your tunes with a backing track, sing on top of the original recording, or you can accompany yourself with a guitar or piano or another musician can accompany you. You must not perform or submit an a cappella (without accompaniment) vocal recording.
  • For instrumental auditions, you can either perform your tunes with a backing track or on top of the original recording. Only guitarists and pianists can record one solo piece, as long as it is a solo piece arrangement. For classical pianists, each movement will be considered as one piece in case of performing a multi-movement work.

Your video recordings must clearly show your face, and in the case of instrumentalists, you must also show your hands while playing as best as possible. Please refrain from using any special effects or filters that might blur your face or hands or submitting social media videos (like TikTok).

Additional requirement

Previous qualifications in music theory or practical exams are preferred but not a requirement for entry into the programme as you will be judged solely on the quality of your submitted audition recordings.

However, you are required to complete an online music theory and aural test set by the School of Contemporary Music. You will be notified of the date and time.

If we wish to know more about your audition recording, we will arrange for a discussion with you.

Audition
To determine your suitability for the programme, you will need to undergo an audition. You will need to prepare for your audition based on your choice of one of the two options:

Option A

  • Memorise two contrasting monologues, either from the selection of plays provided or from properly published plays that are not on the list. You will act them at the audition.

Option B

  • Memorise one monologue, either from the selection of plays provided or from a published play that is not on the list. You will act it at the audition.
  • Sing one memorised song from the prescribed list. You only need to learn 32 bars of any section and not the entire song. You can sing these unaccompanied, or you may wish to bring a ‘minus one’ to accompany you.

Download male monologues
Download female monologues

For your monologue, you will be assessed on your ability to convey a sense of character, environment and circumstances based on your interpretation of the play.

It is advisable that you wear loose fitting clothing that allows you to move easily. Do not bring large props or costumes.

International applicants

If you cannot attend the audition at LASALLE, an online audition will be arranged.

If we wish to know more about your audition, we will arrange for a discussion with you.

Portfolio
To determine your suitability for the programme, you will need to submit a portfolio. You can base your portfolio on either a folk story, legend or fairy tale. It should have a story (the narrative or plot), characters (the roles played by actors) and meaning (theme or ‘content’). Consider how you would like to see your production of this story onstage and compile your portfolio with the following:

  1. Draw, paint or collect some images that show the different settings or scenery. Show how these ‘scenes’ might appear with different lighting, with different atmospheres, in daylight or at midnight etc.
  2. Make lists of any furniture and props that the scenes might need. Draw, copy or cut out images of the most important props or special machinery and special effects. You may want to make all the costumes or design the sets or props.
  3. Consider all the characters in the story and select some of the most important ones. Make some notes about their main qualities, age, ambitions, etc. Draw, collect photographs, cut out magazines of what you think the characters will look like. You may want to cast some of these roles with actors you know.
  4. You are also required to include a video recording to explain your portfolio e.g. What is the story about? What ‘message’ might the story contain? What you would like to convey to the audience? The video recording should include a self-introduction that articulates a vision of your future career and the aspects of theatre production that you are interested to pursue.

You are required to upload your portfolio online. If we wish to know more about your portfolio, we will arrange for a discussion with you.