University degrees: Postgraduate
Course length: 2 years full-time
Course city: Sydney
Prepare for the next stage of your career as a sound practitioner. In the Master of Arts Screen: Sound, you will explore sound as a means of driving narrative and building story worlds.
Whether your interest is in production recording, mixing, or sound design and editing, this course will prepare you for tomorrow’s industry. Through a combination of practice-based learning and theory, you will critically evaluate the techniques and technologies of sound production and design. You will investigate the ways in which sound can be produced, edited and manipulated to create an emotional response in the audience. You will be encouraged to challenge norms and build an informed creative practice, aware of future platforms and changing work practices.
WHY DO THIS COURSE
In this course you will develop the skills required for a career in aural storytelling. Screen sound technologies are continually changing. Through intensive workshops you will acquire the knowledge you need to deal with the creative and economic challenges you will face in the screen sound industry.
WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT
Industry practitioners will contribute to the coursework program, providing insights into their practice, and you will collaborate with your Masters colleagues in small cross-disciplinary groups.
In your final year, you will create a funded major project using the school’s extensive production 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.
AFTRS Sound alumni who have been nominated or won awards include: David White, winner of the Academy Award for Best Sound Editing for Mad Max: Fury Road (2016), and Peter Grace, sound recordist and a member of the team which won the Academy Award for Sound Mixing on Hacksaw Ridge (2017).
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