University degrees: Courses
Course length: 2 years full-time
Course city: Sydney
The Master of Arts Screen: Production Design offers emerging production designers, art directors, designers and artists the skills to negotiate a creative and versatile career in the art department.
Digital visualisation technology is opening up new methods for screen designers to communicate their ideas, supporting screen stories in innovative ways. In this course, you will explore new platforms and technologies involving production design concepts and practices.
WHY DO THIS COURSE
The course requires you to create a design framework for screen projects, collaborating with peers to tell stories in visual and spatial terms. The program advances skills of interpretation, awareness and observation that support creative storytelling. You’ll also receive a crash course in the kind of logistical thinking necessary for a career in designing and art directing for the screen.
WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT
During the course you will practise interpreting texts, formulating ideas and originating visual concepts. Industry practitioners contribute to the coursework syllabus, providing insights into their practice as designers and art directors.
In the final year, you will have the opportunity to design one or more major funded projects using the school’s extensive production facilities. The course also includes a professional industry 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: Production Design course enables you to work at a professional level on a broad range of screen productions.
Award winning AFTRS alumni include: Melinda Doring, AACTA Awards Best Production Design for The Sapphires (2012) and The Eye of the Storm (2011), AFI Award Best Production Design for Somersault (2004); Chris Batson, APDG Award for The Voice (2012); Annie Beauchamp, Art Directors Guild Award for Art Direction, Moulin Rouge! (2002); and Alex Holmes, AACTA Award Nominee, best Production Design for The Babadook (2015).
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