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: Producing provides you with an advanced skillset focussed on project creation and development, including audience identification, financing, management of a production and marketing. This practical knowledge is complemented by intensive workshops on creative leadership and entrepreneurial and strategic skills.
At the core of producing is the power of story and narrative and the innovative ways in which they can be brought to the screen. You will be encouraged to explore your own ideas, to be original, to test your work with an audience in mind, and to experiment as an individual.
Is the 2019 Master of Arts Screen: Producing right for you?
Why do this course
You will graduate a fully equipped producer, ready to operate in a rapidly changing media landscape, able to identify opportunities and develop them to a marketable and rewarding stage, and able to create a scalable, adaptable and viable screen content business.
Flexibility, entrepreneurship and a clear understanding of your ‘brand’ will enable you to produce stories across the available platforms, working with, or for, a variety of production entities both domestically and internationally.
What you can expect
In this intensive course, encompassing theoretical, practical, and strategic considerations in creative producing, you will hone your skills and sharpen your instincts in the development, financing, production and marketing of story ideas. 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 the final year, you create a funded major project using AFTRS’ extensive production facilities and undertake 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 or Arts Screen: Producing will equip you with deep, specialist, industry knowledge in producing and delivering screen content to propel you into a high-level career in the screen media industries. You will emerge with the adaptive and entrepreneurial skills vital to thrive in today’s fast-moving screen industries and join a network of influential alumni operating in senior roles and managing thriving production companies around the globe.
AFTRS Producing graduates include Justin Davis nominated for multiple TV BAFTAs for Psychoville (2009-11), Absolutely Fabulous and Twenty Twelve (2012); Katie Shortland, Head of Business Affairs and Strategy for CJZ Group; and Michael Pontin, Co-Producer on The Little Death which premiered at TIFF and won the audience award at SxSW (2015), and Associate Producer on Backtrack (2015) with Adrien Brody and Sam Neill.
Meet our Head of Producing
Peter Herbert
A writer, producer and executive producer for a many national and international companies, among them Crawford Productions, PBL Productions, Taffner…
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.
DISCLAIMER ** Changes in circumstances may impact upon the accuracy or currency of information. While AFTRS takes all due care to ensure that the information is accurate, it reserves the right to vary any information described here without notice.