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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 skills to negotiate a creative and versatile career in the art department.
Digital visualisation technology is opening up new methods for screen designers to communicate their ideas, supporting screen stories in innovative ways. In this course you will explore new platforms and technologies involving production design concepts and practices.
Is the Master of Arts Screen: Production Design right for you?
WHY DO THIS COURSE
The course requires you to create a design framework for screen 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. You will also explore logistical thinking and planning, necessary for a career in designing and art directing for the screen.
WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT
During the course you will practise interpreting texts, formulating ideas and originating visual concepts. Industry practitioners contribute to the coursework syllabus, providing insights into their practices including, designers, art directors, set decorators and other many other art department personnel.
In the final year, you will have the opportunity to design one or more major funded projects using the school’s extensive production facilities and resources. 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. 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.
Career opportunities
The Master of Arts Screen: Production Design course 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); Annie Beauchamp, Art Directors Guild Award for Art Direction, Moulin Rouge! (2002), and USA Art Directors Guild Nominee Excellence in Production Design Award for Television Movie or Limited Series Black Mirror: Striking Vipers (2019) Alex Holmes, AACTA Award Nominee, best Production Design for The Babadook (2015) and Nominee AACTA Award Best Production Design for The Nightingale (2018) Chris Batson, APDG Award Production design award for The Voice (2012); Justine Seymour Winner Best Costumes Action on Film Award, USA (2014) for, Batman Evolution. Emma Bourke, APDG Award Best Emerging Designer for Screen for, Sweet Tooth (2019).
Potential careers:
- Production Designer
- Art Director
- Set Designer
- Set Decorator
Meet Your Lecturers
Igor Nay
As a successful and recognised art director and production designer in film and television for over 20 years, Igor Nay…
Michael Philips
After qualifying as an architect, Michael worked for the Zimbabwean Ministry of Housing before entering the film industry in the…
Natalie Beak
Natalie Beak is a Production Designer and Art Director who has worked throughout Australia and the UK. Since completing her…
You will learn to
Demonstrate advanced knowledge of theory and practice as a professional production designer.
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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