University degrees: Postgraduate
Course length: 2 years full-time
Course city: Sydney
The Master of Arts Screen: Producing provides you with the tools to create and develop your own projects. You will learn about audience identification, financing, production and marketing. This practical knowledge is complemented by intensive workshops on creative leadership and entrepreneurial skills.
At the core of producing is the power of story – and the innovative ways stories can be brought to the screen. In this course you will be encouraged to explore your own ideas, to be original, to test your work with an audience in mind, and to experiment. You will also experience cross-disciplinary collaboration with your colleagues in other disciplines.
WHY DO THIS COURSE
You will graduate a fully equipped producer, ready to create a scalable, adaptable and viable screen content business in a rapidly changing media landscape.
Flexibility, strategic thinking and a clear understanding of your ‘brand’ will enable you to produce stories across multiple platforms and find work with production entities around the globe.
WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT
In this intensive course in creative producing, you will hone your skills in the development and marketing of story ideas. 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 the final year, you will create a funded major project using AFTRS’ extensive production facilities and undertake 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: Producing course will equip you with specialist knowledge in producing screen content and propel you into a career in the screen industries. You will emerge with the skills vital to thrive in today’s fast-moving media landscape and join a network of influential alumni managing thriving production companies around the globe.
AFTRS Producing alumni include: Justin Davis, nominated for multiple TV BAFTAs for Psychoville (2009–2011), Absolutely Fabulous and Twenty Twelve (2012); Katie Shortland, Head of Business Affairs and Strategy for the CJZ Group; Michael Pontin, Co-Producer on The Little Death (2014), which premiered at TIFF and won the audience award at SXSW.
