Industry Certificate: Content Strategy & Creation

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Analyse, strategise, pitch and produce

This course focuses on the skills and knowledge required to respond to a brief and produce engaging content and campaigns. You’ll learn how to analyse a brief, devise a creative and production strategy response, and then pitch your ideas to maximum effect. You will develop your storytelling and idea generation skills and create fast turn-around video content targeting a variety of audiences across multiple platforms.

Delivered 100% online, you will engage in practical, collaborative online lectures to learn how to create campaign-style strategies and content for social media and professional corporate communications.

You will be expected to create content regularly as exercises throughout the course and will be supported with guidance on shooting and editing content using a mobile device. At the end of the course, you will be challenged to define, create, and execute an engaging portfolio of campaign assets in response to a pre-determined brief.

Gain an understanding of the process and skills required to successfully create a content campaign.

Practice responding to a brief including ideation, writing the treatment, creating a great pitch deck, and pitching.

Develop your practical mobile content creation skills across a range of social media platforms.

Is the Industry Certificate: Content Strategy & Creation right for you?

The Content Creation Industry Certificate is ideal for:

creative/media/PR agency producers, and accounts/project managers who want to improve their practical understanding of why and how to create content.
communications staff in corporate or government organisations who create or manage internal/external productions and want to improve their knowledge and skills.
freelancers who want to expand their skill set and get more work.

No previous experience with camera or editing is necessary for this course, but you will need to provide your own mobile device to complete the exercises. You’ll also need to make time to shoot and complete your portfolio videos.

RELATED COURSES

We have a shorter, 100% online Mobile Content Creation course that will give you insights into making video with your mobile device.

Our five-day Videomaking Intensive covers shooting and editing video but does not have the briefing, strategy and creative development elements of this course.

Meet Your Tutor

Josh Butt

Josh is a Producer of TV, commercials and podcasts with 22 years of agency, production company and freelance experience. As…

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What you will need

This course is delivered 100% online over 12 weeks. There are weekly online units to be completed in Moodle, our online learning environment, and weekly online video conferencing sessions via Zoom Video. You should allow at least 10 hours per week to include the coursework, including practical exercises and assessment tasks.

You will need a current mobile device on which to shoot and edit the course exercises and a way to back up your device. You will also need to have accounts on the Facebook, Instagram, Youtube and Tiktok platforms.

Payment plan

25% to confirm enrolment in the course
25% due 14 days from beginning of course
25% due by the end of Week 3 of the course
25% due by the end of Week 6 of the course
NOTE: If you enrol 14 – 1 day before course commencement, 50% payment will be required to confirm enrolment.

For more information and to get a full course outline contact shortcourses@aftrs.edu.au.

To find out about future offerings of this course, register your interest. For more information email info@aftrs.edu.au or call 1300 223 877.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION: AFTRS reserves the right to cancel any course for any reason at any time. In the event of a course being cancelled a full refund of course fees will be provided. If you are planning to travel to attend a course, please confirm with us via email that the course will be proceeding before you make your travel bookings. AFTRS is not liable for any travel costs incurred due to course postponement, cancellation, or any other circumstance.

If an attendee wishes to withdraw from a course, they may do so up to 15 days before the course commences and get a full refund. Cancellations 14 days or less before course commencement will incur a fee.

Find out more information about discounts and refunds here.

For more information email shortcourses@aftrs.edu.au or call 1300 223 877.