Bachelor
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.
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 and events 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 technical skills by producing high quality creative content. Alternatively you may wish to hone your skills in script-writing.
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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. Those who specialise in producing may aspire to work in research production management script development and editing or programming and scheduling for screen media outlets. There are many opportunities for graduates to start their own specialised business in the industry.
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 such as The Martian Hacksaw Ridge Mad Max: Fury Road The Revenant Doctor Strange Burning Man My Mistress Harry Potter The Wolverine Quantum of Solace The Great Gatsby Les Miserables Batman Returns Battleshipand 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.
There are also pathways available for professional or research postgraduate studies.
To meet the course requirements of the Bachelor of Fine Arts (Film Screen and New Media) you must complete the following:
Study overseas while earning credit towards your QUT creative industries 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 a creative or non-creative discipline area depending on how they match with your QUT course. Saving your electives for exchange will allow you the most flexibility.
To meet the course requirements of the Bachelor of Fine Arts (Film Screen and New Media) you must complete the following:
Study overseas while earning credit towards your QUT creative industries 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 a creative or non-creative discipline area depending on how they match with your QUT course. Saving your electives for exchange will allow you the most flexibility.