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This immersive design course focuses on both stage and screen design.

You will learn set design, costume design, props and lighting design for live and film productions. With small groups and high levels of individual tuition you will develop your design skills in professional student studios, theatres and workshops. You will learn through practice-based learning and intellectual enquiry.

This design course will equip you with technical skills such as rendering, virtual visualisation techniques, manual drafting, computer-aided drafting, drawing and pre-visualisation. You will extend your creative tool-kit by investigating the social, historical and cultural contexts of contemporary performance, design, architecture, fashion and art.

Throughout your degree, you will take your skills from the studio all the way to a final completed work, applying learning as a key member of an extensive creative and collaborative team. You will create designs for live productions, short films, music videos, devised works, installations and industry collaborations.

In your final year, you will be placed with a design professional and professional arts company. You will leave NIDA with a robust skillset, valuable industry connections and confidence about your future in stage and screen design.

Careers

Our graduates win awards, including numerous Academy Awards, BAFTA Awards, AACTA Awards, APDG Awards, Green Room and Sydney Theatre Awards. They have designed for Cirque du Soleil, Bangara Dance Theatre, feature films from international studios including movies such as The Amazing Spider Man, The Matrix, Romeo + Juliet, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 and 2, Watchmen, 300, Garden State, The Favourite, Game of Thrones, The Great Gatsby, Moulin Rouge!, True History of the Kelly Gang, 21 Grams, numerous Olympic Games and more.

Potential careers

Stage and screen set/production designer
Stage and screen costume designer
Art director
Lighting designer
Properties designer
Event designer