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Become a creative leader in the global screen industry
The Master of Arts Screen: Producing provides you with the tools to create and develop your own projects. You will learn about development, 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 test your work with an audience in mind, and to experiment. You will meet and forge strong creative relationships with colleagues from a range of disciplines that you will carry with you into your professional screen career.
Is the Master of Arts Screen: Producing right for you?
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 major project using AFTRS’ extensive production facilities.
During the course, there will be an opportunity for a professional placement, which aims to support your transition into the industry upon graduation.
Overall, the course will allow you to consider who you are as a creative practitioner with an adaptable skill set. Analysing your process through the development of a practice-based research project, will generate insights into how your practice is informed by the past – but also how it engages with contemporary screen culture and emerging trends and technologies.
Career opportunities
The Master of Arts Screen: Producing will propel you into a career in the screen industries, with specialist skills in ideation, development, team leadership and content creation for every screen existing or as yet unimagined. You will emerge with the skills vital to thrive in today’s fast-moving media landscape and join a network of influential alumni creating bold screen stories for hungry international audiences, within thriving production companies around the globe.
AFTRS Producing alumni include: Katie Shortland, Head of Business Affairs and Strategy for the CJZ Group; Michael Pontin, (Wyrmwood, 2014, co-producer; Backtrack, 2015, associate producer; Otherlife, 2017, producer, Standing up for Sunny, 2019, producer); Taylor Litton-Strain (Jade of Death, 2018, producer, All God’s Creatures, 2014, producer), Sheila Jayadev (Ali’s Wedding, 2017, Stateless, 2020); Liam Heyen (I Am Woman, 2019, co-producer, Top End Wedding, 2019, co-producer; Cleverman, associate producer), Luke Eve (High Life, 2017, Cancelled, 2020).
Meet Your Lecturers
Lyn Norfor
An experienced producer, Lyn’s credits encompass drama and documentary film and television productions. She produced the feature film Undertow (2018)…
Karen Radzyner
Karen Radzyner has produced two multi-award-winning TV mini-series – Paper Giants: The Birth of Cleo (2011) and genre anthology Two Twisted…
What you will learn
Demonstrate advanced knowledge of theory and practice as a producer.
Apply a deep understanding of cinematic storytelling to create audience-engaged work for the screen.
Implement a creative practice that synthesises specialist knowledge and an understanding of personal process.
Apply an adaptable skill set.
Demonstrate an ability to collaborate across diverse projects.
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