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Highlights

• Develop skills in cinematography, editing, sound or directing, or learn how to be a producer or scriptwriter.
• Showcase your work to industry professionals and external clients at public screenings.
• Choose from a range of genres including documentary, drama, television, experimental film while exploring digital and mobile platforms.
• Graduates have made films or programs that have won Oscars, Emmy, BAFTA, AFI and IF awards, and screened at major international and Australian film festivals.
• Complete 2 separate degrees in 4 years full-time.
• Complement your film, screen and new media skills with a business major in accounting, advertising, economics, finance, financial planning, human resource management, international business, management, marketing or public relations.

Storytelling for screen is no longer restricted to big-budget cinema releases and television series commissioned by major networks. The need for quality content across digital media delivery platforms such as subscription TV, mobile devices, internet, promotional campaigns and film festivals is leading to lucrative opportunities for multiskilled professionals to generate highly creative, captivating productions.

Why choose this course?

This combined degree opens up a wide range of creative and business careers. You will graduate not only with advanced technical and creative skills, but also with highly developed business knowledge you can apply within the film, screen and new media industries.

This film course for the digital age provides opportunities to develop your skills in producing, writing, editing, sound, cinematography or directing. You will gain an understanding of the techniques used in audiovisual media, the conventions and context of different screen-based formats and insight into how the screen industry works.

This combined degree will allow you to use your skills to start your own specialised business in the film, screen and new media industries such as developing media services within the advertising and corporate sectors. Regardless of your chosen specialisation, this broad base of skills will make you attractive to employers, or set you up to better take control of your freelance career.

Careers and outcomes

Graduates work in the film, television and screen industries in entry-level positions on film sets, for production companies or screen media outlets, and as freelance professionals. Career outcomes include cinematography, vision and sound editing, directing, script-writing, producing or production management. There are many opportunities for graduates to start their own specialised business in the industry, where your business skills can help give you a competitive edge. Business majors in advertising, marketing or public relations can also provide you with opportunities to develop film and new media services within the advertising and corporate sectors.