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FAST-TRACK YOUR CAREER IN THE GLOBAL SCREEN INDUSTRY
Prepare for the next stage of your career as a sound practitioner. In the Master of Arts Screen: Sound Design, you will explore sound as a means of driving narrative and building story worlds.
Whether your interest is in production recording, mixing, or sound design and editing, this course will prepare you for tomorrow’s industry. Through a combination of practice-based learning and theory, you will critically evaluate the techniques and technologies of sound production and design. You will investigate the ways in which sound can be produced, edited, designed and manipulated to create rich, diverse and immersive cinematic story worlds. You will be encouraged to challenge norms and build an informed creative practice, aware of future platforms and changing work practices.
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Meet AFTRS’ Head of Sound Stephen Murphy
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Is the Master of Arts Screen: Sound Design right for you?
WHY DO THIS COURSE
In this course, you will develop the skills required for a career in aural storytelling. Screen sound technologies are continually changing. Through intensive workshops, you will acquire the knowledge you need to deal with the creative and economic challenges you will face in the screen sound industry.
WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT
Industry practitioners will contribute to the coursework program, providing insights into their practice, and you will collaborate with your Master of Arts Screen colleagues in small cross-disciplinary groups.
In the second year, you will work on a major project and a strategically aligned research project. During the course, students will be able to undertake a short professional placement and engagement with industry, providing professional networking opportunities and potential for future collaborations.
Overall, the course will allow you to consider who you are as a creative practitioner with an adaptable skillset. 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, and how it engages with contemporary screen culture and emerging trends and technologies.
Career opportunities
AFTRS sound alumni who have been nominated for or won awards include David White, winner of the Academy Award for Best Sound Editing for Mad Max: Fury Road (2016) and Peter Grace, winner of the Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing for Hacksaw Ridge (2017).
Potential careers:
- Sound Editor
- Sound Designer
- Sound Recordist
- Sound Mixer
Meet your Lecturers
Stephen Murphy
During his childhood Stephen Murphy developed a fascination with film, television and sound that has been with him ever since.…
Dr. Gerald Mair
Dr. Gerald Mair was born and brought up on the west coast of Scotland. In 2004 he relocated to Melbourne…
Alexander Gastrell
Alexander Gastrell is an AFTRS Foundation Diploma Graduate who in 2015 was the recipient of the Greg Bell Student Encouragement…
Georgia Collins
Something of a white tiger in sound, Georgia Collins is one of a scarce few female engineers in the industry.…
You will learn to
Demonstrate advanced knowledge of theory and practice as a screen sound professional
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
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.
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