University degrees: Postgraduate
Course length: 2 years full-time
Course city: Sydney
The Master of Arts Screen: Editing provides you with the opportunity to immerse yourself in the craft of editing. You will be trained in Avid Media Composer software to make cohesive stories to industry standard. You will learn to work closely in teams, collaborating with the directing, writing and producing students to bring your projects to life.
You will learn about coverage, continuity, temp music, sound and the post-production workflow. You will discover how to shape an actor’s performance to enhance the effectiveness of the narrative. In documentary editing, you will face the challenge of taking archival as well as collected footage and threading it together seamlessly.
You will understand the entire post process, from transcoding rushes to complex VFX, grading, sound and music workflows.
WHY DO THIS COURSE
You will experience the pressures and rewards of being a screen editor. You will work closely with directors and producers and learn about managing your own editorial assistants.
By the end of the course, you will have the skills to edit professional projects and the confidence to pitch to directors and producers. You will develop a high-level reel to showcase your work, and you will gain valuable industry contacts.
WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT
Industry practitioners will contribute to the coursework program, providing insights into their practice, and you will collaborate with fellow students in small cross-disciplinary groups. In your second year, you will create a major project using AFTRS’ facilities. The course concludes with a professional placement.
Overall, the course will allow you to consider who you are as a creative practitioner with an adaptable skill-set. Learning to analyse your process through the development of a practice-based research project, you will understand how your practice is informed by the past – but also how it engages with contemporary screen culture and emerging trends and technologies.
The Master of Arts Screen: Editing will enable you to work at a professional level on screen narratives of all kinds. You will graduate with the skills to become a professional editor in film, television, documentary, advertising, VR, AR and web-based screen projects.
AFTRS Editing alumni include: Margaret Sixel ASE, winner of an OSCAR and BAFTA for Mad Max: Fury Road (2016); Nick Meyers ASE, winner of an AACTA award for Balibo (2009) and an ASE Award for The Rocket (2013); Andrea Lang ASE, Cunnamulla (2001), We Don’t Need a Map (2017); Mark Perry ASE, Rake (2012-2016), Friday on My Mind (2017), The Kettering Incident (2016).
