University degrees: Postgraduate
Course length: 2 years full-time
Course city: Melbourne
We balance intensive, studio-based practice with critical studies. Our learning environment creates the opportunity to form professional relationships that will prove invaluable throughout your career. Film and Television has several areas of specialisation at undergraduate and graduate levels: Animation, Documentary, Narrative, Producing and Screenwriting.
If you have an enquiring mind and a highly visual outlook, documentary filmmaking is an inspired choice of profession. Documentary at the VCA will challenge you to create critically reflective films that capture a distinct place and time in our society.
The Narrative specialisation emphasises the screenwriting, direction and editing of narrative film and television. You are encouraged to be innovative and experimental, explore ideas and develop the expertise to express them to an audience through a visual medium.
Specialise in either narrative or documentary subjects. And write, direct and edit your own production, completed both creatively and technically to a professional level.
Screen language covers major aspects of direction onto a film set. It gives you the practical skills to as well as the ability to analyse film directing styles.
Script writing deals with moving picture language and principles of characterization and dramatic form. You’ll undertake additional specialist screenwriting tutorials relevant to their strand of study.
In first-year, you are introduced to facets of motion picture production within your chosen specialisation.
In second year, you assume responsibility for the creative and technical production of a major project at a professional level.
You can exit the course early after completion of Year 1 to obtain a Graduate Diploma of Film and Television.
