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QUT (Queensland University of Technology)

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Bachelor of Business/Bachelor of Fine Arts (Film, Screen and New Media)

  • Bachelor

Use expertise from film, screen and new media combined with skills from business for a career within the advertising and corporate sectors or start your own specialised business.

Key details

Degree Type
Bachelor
Duration
4 years full-time
Course Code
409342, 064813M
Study Mode
In person
Intake Months
Feb, Jul
ATAR
70

About this course

Highlights
  • Develop skills in cinematography, editing, sound or directing, or learn how to be a producer or scriptwriter.
  • Showcase your work to industry professionals and external clients at public screenings.
  • Choose from a range of genres including documentary, drama, television, experimental film while exploring digital and mobile platforms.
  • Graduates have made films or programs that have won Oscars, Emmy, BAFTA, AFI and IF awards, and screened at major international and Australian film festivals.
  • Complete 2 separate degrees in 4 years full-time.
  • Complement your film, screen and new media skills with a business major in accounting, advertising, economics, finance, financial planning, human resource management, international business, management, marketing or public relations.
Highlights
  • Develop skills in cinematography, editing, sound or directing, or learn how to be a producer or scriptwriter.
  • Showcase your work to industry professionals and external clients at public screenings.
  • Choose from a range of genres including documentary, drama, television, experimental film while exploring digital and mobile platforms.
  • Graduates have made films or programs that have won Oscars, Emmy, BAFTA, AFI and IF awards, and screened at major international and Australian film festivals.
  • Complete 2 separate degrees in 4 years full-time.
  • Complement your film, screen and new media skills with a business major in accounting, advertising, economics, finance, financial planning, human resource management, international business, management, marketing or public relations.

Entry requirements

Year 12 early offer scheme

If you're a current Queensland Year 12 student you may be eligible to receive an offer for this course on the last day of Queensland Year 12 before receiving your ATAR or selection rank.

Find out more about the QUT Year 12 Early Offer Scheme

Study locations

Kelvin Grove

Gardens Point

What you will learn

Storytelling for screen is no longer restricted to big-budget cinema releases and television series commissioned by major networks. The need for quality content across digital media delivery platforms such as subscription TV mobile devices internet promotional campaigns and film festivals is leading to lucrative opportunities for multiskilled professionals to generate highly creative captivating productions.

This course gives you a broad base of knowledge skills and experiences to explore a wide range of career options within the film television and digital media industries before specialising in an area of your choice. If you are interested in producing you may find your niche as a creative entrepreneur learning how to generate ideas and develop them into finished productions. If your passion is cinematography editing sound or directing you will develop your skills by producing high quality creative content. Alternatively you may wish to hone your skills in script-writing.

Career pathways

Careers and outcomes

Graduates work in the film television and screen industries in entry-level positions on film sets for production companies or screen media outlets and as freelance professionals. Career outcomes include cinematography vision and sound editing directing script-writing producing or production management. There are many opportunities for graduates to start their own specialised business in the industry where your business skills can help give you a competitive edge. Business majors in advertising marketing or public relations can also provide you with opportunities to develop film and new media services within the advertising and corporate sectors.

Our graduates have gone on to make films or programs that have won Oscars Emmy BAFTA AACTA and IF awards. They have screened at prestigious festivals worldwide including Cannes Tribeca Berlinale Sydney Film Festival Melbourne International Film Festival Sundance Film Festival and Tropfest.

QUT graduates have worked on films including The Martian Hacksaw Ridge Mad Max: Fury Road The Revenant Burning Man My Mistress Harry Potter The Wolverine Quantum of Solace The Great Gatsby Les Miserables Batman Returns Battleship and Total Recall.

Television programs include True Detective Westworld Hoff the Record Secrets and Lies The Night Manager Battlebots Australia's Got Talent Big Brother MasterChef (USA) The Voice X-Factor Australian Story Go Back To Where You Came From SLiDE and Absolutely Fabulous The Thick of It and Quick Cuts for BBC London.

Music videos include those for Powderfinger Silverchair Washington and many others.

Professional recognition

Students may be eligible for membership to a number of professional bodies depending on choice of major and unit selection in their business degree. Details on professional recognition can be found under the individual majors of the Bachelor of Business (BS05).

Research pathways Bachelor of Business (Honours) option

High-achieving students who wish to take further studies may enrol in BS63 Bachelor of Business (Honours).

Possible careers
  • Academic
  • Account executive
  • Advertising professional
  • Advertising and new media professional
  • Artist
  • Creative entrepreneur
  • Digital content producer
  • Director
  • Entrepreneur
  • Film composer
  • Film/television producer
  • Financial project manager
  • Internet professional
  • Lighting designer
  • Lighting technician
  • Manager
  • Market research manager
  • Marketing officer/manager
  • Media industry specialist
  • Multimedia designer
  • Post-production specialist
  • Producer
  • Project manager
  • Public relations officer/consultant
  • Sound and music producer
  • Technical officer
  • Visual arts teacher

Course structure

Your course

In order to complete this course you must complete a total of 384 credit points made up of 192 credit points from the Bachelor of Business and 192 credit points from the Bachelor of Fine Arts. You will undertake the two components of the double degree concurrently.

Business component

The business component is made up of 96 credit points of Business School core units and 96 credit points of units from a business major. The business majors are accounting advertising economics finance financial planning human resource management international business management marketing and public relations. Accounting students will complete 10 major units and six Business School core units in order to meet professional recognition requirements.

Fine arts component

You will complete two common units (24 credit points) and a fine arts major (168 credit points) in film screen and new media.

Study overseas

Study overseas while earning credit towards your QUT degree with one of our worldwide exchange partners.

Overseas study can be for one or two semesters (or during the semester break) and the units you take can be in either degree area depending on how they match with your QUT course.

Your course

In order to complete this course you must complete a total of 384 credit points made up of 192 credit points from the Bachelor of Business and 192 credit points from the Bachelor of Fine Arts. You will undertake the two components of the double degree concurrently.

Business component

The business component is made up of 96 credit points of Business School core units and 96 credit points of units from a business major. The business majors are accounting advertising economics finance financial planning human resource management international business management marketing and public relations. Accounting students will complete 10 major units and six Business School core units in order to meet professional recognition requirements.

Fine arts component

You will complete two common units (24 credit points) and a fine arts major (168 credit points) in film screen and new media.

Study overseas

Study overseas while earning credit towards your QUT degree with one of our worldwide exchange partners.

Overseas study can be for one or two semesters (or during the semester break) and the units you take can be in either degree area depending on how they match with your QUT course.