Applications open:
02 Jul 2018
Applications close:
17 Oct 2018
Duration:
2 years full-time
Attendance:
Three days face-to-face per week
$50,976 ($25,488 p.a.)
The fee shown is the indicative course tuition fee, expressed as a both a total course cost and per annum cost. For more information, see fees and scholarships below.
FEE-HELP and scholarships available
$101,952 ($50,976 p.a.)
The fee shown is the indicative course tuition fee, expressed as a both a total course cost and per annum cost. For more information, see fees and scholarships below.
Become a creative leader in the global screen industry
The Master of Arts Screen: Editing provides you with the opportunity to learn by deep immersion in the craft of editing. Through an intensive cycle of creative tasks, you will acquire techniques for making audiences think and feel, while also making a technically and aesthetically cohesive work in Avid.
Learn about coverage, continuity, temp music and sound for the edit and all the various post-production stages as you discover how to shape an actor’s performance to best tell the narrative in the most moving way possible. In the documentary editing strand, you engage with the great challenge of shaping seemingly random footage into a cohesive tale. Graduate with a high-level understanding of the post-production process from transcoding rushes to complex VFX, grading, sound and music workflows.
Is the 2019 Master of Arts Screen: Editing right for you?
Why do this course
You will thoroughly engage with the field of creative editing for two years, developing a genuine experience of the pressures and rewards of being a fulltime picture editor. You will work closely with directors and producers and grasp the importance of working with post-production teams and managing your own assistants.
By the end of the course, you will be equipped with the skills to edit professional screen projects and have the confidence to approach directors and producers to pitch for professional work. You will develop a high-level reel or website of work created over the projects and collaborative exercises, and you will have the opportunity to generate lifelong creative collaborations and lasting friendships with your fellow Masters students.
The course will allow you to realise your potential as a leading creative collaborator able to fulfil your responsibilities to your team and the material.
What you can expect
Throughout your first year, through key creative and technical workshops, you will drill deep into your craft, develop rigour and strive for excellence. Industry practitioners will contribute to the coursework program, providing insights into their practice. In small, cross-disciplinary groups, you will collaborate with your fellow students to develop a shared vocabulary for cinematic storytelling and life-long collaborative networks.
In your second year, you create an individual or collaborative major project, using AFTRS facilities and funding, to realise your vision. You will screen to many audiences and test the realisation of your creative intentions. The course concludes with a professional placement.
Across the course, you will be supported to consider who you are as a creative practitioner and develop an adaptable, creative skill-set. Learning to document and analyse your process through the development of a practice-based research project, you will understand how you have been informed by innovations and processes of the past, and how your practice engages with contemporary screen culture and its emerging trends and technologies.
Career opportunities
The Master of Arts Screen: Editing will enable you to work at a professional level on screen narratives of all kinds. You will leave with the skills and knowledge to become a professional editor, working in film, television, documentary, advertising, VR, AR and web-based screen projects.
AFTRS Editing graduates include: Margaret Sixel ASE, winner of an Academy Award and a BAFTA for Editing: Mad Max: Fury Road (2016); Nick Meyers ASE, winner AACTA award for Balibo (2009) and ASE Award for The Rocket; 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).
Meet our Head of Editing
Roland Gallois
Roland Gallois is a film and documentary editor with over 20 years experience. He is best know for his work…
YOU WILL LEARN TO
Demonstrate and apply advanced knowledge of theory and practice as a professional and creative leader in their discipline.
Critically evaluate and apply a deep understanding of cinematic storytelling to create audience-engaged work for the screen.
Justify and implement a reflective creative practice that synthesises specialist knowledge, research and an understanding of personal process.
Apply an adaptable skill set.
Demonstrate an ability to lead, inspire and collaborate across diverse projects with a confidence in their creative voice and core value.
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