The world of film, television and animation awaits.
Are your heroes Walt Disney and John Lasseter? Do you dream of directing your own film, or perhaps you’ve just always had a passion for the performing arts and the beauty of cinema?
If you’ve ever wanted to dive into all things film, television and animation related, and the art of storytelling is what really makes your heart sing, Deakin University’s Bachelor of Film, Television and Animation is for you.
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One of the major new courses within the new Communication and Creative Arts (CCA) suite exclusively offered at Deakin, the Bachelor of Film, Television and Animation is all about gifting budding creators the skills they need to discover their creative vision and express themselves in an ever-changing world.
Offering majors in Animation, Producing Screen Content and Screen Production, and a selection of specific minors, students can and will explore everything from 2D and 3D animation, motion graphics, directing and producing and digital cinematography, to scriptwriting, short fictional and factual filmmaking and sound recording and design and everything else in between. This course goes as far as even covering the business of freelance work and visual language.
This course will not only immerse students in their passion and craft but allow them to develop the critical practical and technical skills to work across multiple roles in production and post-production in the dynamic and collaborative industries of screen media, entertainment and culture.
With practical industry experience at the crux of fortuitous careers in the creative arts, Deakin ensures students are armed with real-life experiences through Work Integrated Learning opportunities, including a new partnership with Melbourne-based Dreamscreen Australia.
“The partnership came about as all the best partnerships do, through friendship and a desire to make the industry better than it currently is,” explains Head of School of Communication and Creative Arts Professor Matt Delbridge.
“Dreamscreen CEO Clay Jacobson and the team at Dreamscreen are at the very top of the game when it comes to Virtual Production and great collaborators.”
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From high-end VFX delivered live in camera, to simulated travel, to set extensions, Dreamscreen deals in LED virtual production workflows on all forms of TV, Film and Media. They have a fully equipped facility/studio in Epping with a 15m by 5m LED screen which has serviced many commercials films and TV series, and more recently, they’ve just completed a second season of work on La Brea for universal NBC with an enormous 26m by 6m LED volume based at Dockland studios.
Through the Dreamscreen and Deakin collaboration, students will have the opportunity to experience industry placements working on features, music videos, TV dramas, gaming and commercials side-by-side with Dreamscreen industry professionals.
“A big part of our mandate is education – this is a new industry and it’s in desperate need of skilled practitioners: our deal with Deakin hopes to address this situation,” explains Dreamscreen’s CEO/Founder/Producer Clayton Jacobson.
“Our experience in this field places us in the perfect position to implement much of what we have learned into that facility and therefore allow much of that learning to filter through to the students in a very meaningful and hands-on way.
“We also allow students time on the facility studio floor to run and design their own work after they have obtained sufficient knowledge on virtual production workflows,” he adds.
“We have also brought past interns into work on actual commissioned work – this is our main interest to not just skill up but to place ex-students into active positions within the industry.”
Embracing the next super-shift in the art of filmmaking, working with the likes of this world-class virtual production company is a rare opportunity and one that ensures graduates finish with the knowledge and skills for a successful creative career.
“The most glaring advantage [of this particular course and partnership] is we like to place the interns/student’s boots on the ground in a functioning studio providing experience in both our day-to-day operations and also on many of the industry projects we are commissioned on,” Jacobson says.
Students who choose to study in Melbourne won’t miss out, with virtual production capability across the Burwood campus too – enabling new research in virtual production to advance film production.
Students can even go one step further and gain invaluable industry experience through internship opportunities, such as crewing on sports broadcasts through the Deakin LiveStream Outside Broadcast (OB) van.
Through consistently connecting with industry and working on real-world briefs, it’s clear this course allows students to develop their professional identity and hone their communication and leadership skills. By the time they graduate, they’ll be armed with a creative portfolio, budding professional network and invaluable industry knowledge to thrive in a sustained creative career in the multifaceted world of screen production.
“We’re building one of Australia’s largest and technologically advanced Virtual Production studios in Geelong to co-deliver a suite of industry-relevant programs to train the next generation of VFX professionals,” adds Delbridge.
“The studio will be working on professional productions (local and international) and students and external industry professionals will get the chance to build skills in this vital new production area on the job.”
This only builds on the everyday access to industry-standard facilities and equipment – including a high-definition television broadcast studio, digital cinema RED, Arri and Ursa cameras, sound studio, editing and colour grading suites and stop motion animation stations.
And while the course might not start until the new year, Dreamscreens head honcho recommends immersing yourself in as much information as possible to put your best foot forward in 2023. Attitude and willingness go a long way, and a strong work ethic and passion never go unnoticed in the creative industry.
“There is a lot of material online about this exciting new field of filmmaking – I highly recommend getting familiar with as many behind the scenes documentation on virtual production so that you come in with some understanding of the breadth of talent needed and a rough sense of where you might like to fit into that pipeline,” he says.
“There are so many moving parts to running a LED volume there is room and skills needed across almost every aspect of filmmaking in general which makes for a wonderfully rich learning landscape.”
So whether you want to produce and direct, work on set or in post-production, or create your own animations – studying at Deakin is the first step towards your dream future career.
Bachelor of Film, Television and Animation is available from Trimester 1 2023. Applications are now open.
Become the storyteller you’ve always dreamed of and apply today here.
This article was made in partnership with Deakin University.
