Produce and direct your career in film
Throughout this course, you’ll leverage your interest in filmmaking as you expand your creative thinking, explore the craft of storytelling and, ultimately, transform into a professional film practitioner. You’ll understand the ins and outs of making a film and, most importantly, the answer to the question: “What film are you going to make?”
You’ll make full use of our digital cinema workflow to put your theoretical knowledge into practice, with access to industry-standard resources including digital cinematography cameras and lenses; professional tripods and dollies; lighting equipment; location sound recording mixers, microphones and booms; studio and set construction facilities; green screen studio and compositing software; and professional editing and colour grading software. You’ll have the opportunity to develop creative practice in filmmaking and specialise in a technical crew role. Internship units allow you to form industry relationships and engage with the social and professional world of film production.
Study a Bachelor of Arts (Film Production) at UC and you will:
- discover the answer to the question: What film do I want to make?
- use technical knowledge to analyse and evaluate a screenplay for story, narrative, theme and character
- assess, plan and work with the hardware and software of film production to engage metanarrative devices for cinematic storytelling
- use an understanding of acting and the acting process to form creative collaborations for film production
- both lead and work in small teams to produce creative storytelling solutions for film production
- use industry-standard procedures for managing hazards and safety within film production.
Work Integrated Learning
Work Integrated Learning (WIL) is at the very centre of the Bachelor of Arts (Film Production), with the course content and structure developed with ongoing input and feedback from the Australian film production industry. You’ll learn from industry-active professionals and world-class scholars and will work and study in real-world situations through project work, internships, professional experience, mentorships, and international study opportunities.
Students are required to undertake 100 WIL hours, which can be mixed across multiple sources, including editing experience with a production company, marketing with a film festival or a camera traineeship with a television station. Past student placements have included Wildbear, Channel 9, Canberra Short Film Festival, Stronger Than Fiction, National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra International Film Festival, By George!, Screen Canberra and the ABC TV/Playmaker Media drama series ‘The Code’.
Course-specific information
Standard entry to this course is by selection rank, but a portfolio entry is also possible.
High-achieving students may be eligible for enrolment in the Bachelor of Arts and Design (Honours).
Career opportunities
- Filmmaker
- Creative producer
- Director
- Documentary filmmaker
- Screenwriter
- First assistant director
- Director of photography
- Editor
- Continuity supervisor
- Sound designer
- Production designer
- Costume designer
- Production manager
- Camera operator
- Camera assistant (clapper loader, focus puller, data wrangler)
- Gaffer
- Grip
- Sound recorder
- Boom operator
- Props master
- Assistant editor
- Special effects supervisor
- Digital imaging technician

