Bachelor of Fine Arts (Film and Television)

University of Melbourne - Southbank

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Overview

The Bachelor of Fine Arts (Film and Television) develops your creative, technical and analytical skills through lectures, workshops, and master classes. Through production-based assignments you write, direct and edit your own work, strengthening your individual creative voice, and crew on fellow student productions, building an important practical overview while developing valuable peer networks.

You are encouraged to be innovative and experimental, explore fresh ideas and develop the expertise to express ideas effectively for an audience. In the final year you continue your studies as a director, focusing on a major production that is screened publicly as part of a graduate film screening.

You will have access to extensive resources, including fully equipped production studios, animation studios, analogue and digital cinema cameras and audio recording kits, and high-definition digital vision and audio postproduction facilities.

Prerequisites

Year 12 prerequisites

Units 3 and 4: a study score of at least 30 in English as an Additional Language (EAL) or at least 25 in English other than EAL.

Non-Year 12 prerequisites

As for Year 12 or subject equivalents.

Majors

Actor direction, Film projects, Screen studies, Screenwriting.

Potential Career Outcomes

The type of careers this qualification leads to may include:
  • Cinematographer
  • Director
  • Editor
  • Film or television producer
  • Screenwriter
  • Writer.

ATAR & Selection Rank

The table below shows the ATAR and Selection Rank information for those offered places wholly or partly on the basis of ATAR in 2023.

ATAR-based offers only, across all offer rounds
ATAR
(excluding adjustment factors)
Selection Rank
(including adjustment factors)
Highest rank to receive an offerN/PN/P
Median rank to receive an offerN/PN/P
Lowest rank to receive an offerN/PN/P

<5 - Less than 5 ATAR-based offers were made

Admission Criteria

Please refer to the University of Melbourne website for admission criteria information.

Course Seeker

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University

University of Melbourne

Campus

Southbank

Course Type

Bachelors Degree

Study Area

Arts

Delivery Mode

On-campus

Duration

Full-time: 3 years

Indicative ATAR

Unknown

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