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: Production Design offers emerging production designers, art directors, designers and artists the opportunity to be immersed in the study of screen design and equip them with the knowledge and skills to negotiate a creative and versatile career as a screen designer.
Digital visualisation technology is opening up new and exciting methods for screen designers to communicate and express their ideas, supporting screen stories in ever-increasing ways. In this course you will explore new platforms and technologies involving production design concepts, practices and skills, as you engage in meaningful, creative collaborations. You will also pursue your own artistic identity as you collaborate as a creative practitioner and storyteller with your colleagues in other disciplines.
Is the 2019 Master of Arts Screen: Production Design right for you?
Why do this course
In this intensive course you will thoroughly engage with the field of screen design, allowing you to experience a range of work in production design and connect to the screen community culture at large.
The course requires you to create a design framework and approach for screen design 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, and pairs this learning with the logistical thinking necessary for a career in designing and art directing for screen.
What you can expect
The course provides an intense experience that involves constant exploration, research, learning and creative practice in the discipline of production design. You practise interpreting texts, formulating ideas and originating visual concepts. You are supported to develop a strong creative practice, discovering your own design process. Industry practitioners will contribute to the coursework program, providing insights into their practice. In small, cross-disciplinary groups, you 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 to realise your vision, and 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 or Arts Screen: Production Design 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 The Voice (2012); Annie Beauchamp Art Directors Guild Award for Art Direction Moulin Rouge! (2002).
Potential careers:
- Production Designer
- Art Director
- Set Designer
Meet our Head of Production Design
Igor Nay
As a successful and recognised art director and production designer in film and television for over 20 years, Igor Nay…
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.