Take a great story and learn to shape it for film, TV or animation. From documentary and short narrative fiction, to more experimental productions, the Bachelor of Film, Television and Animation allows you to develop your own specialist skill set within the dynamic fields of screen production and screen culture. 

Do you want to produce and direct in the media and entertainment industry? 

Bring storytelling to the screen through a number of production and post-production roles and practices. Through this course, you’ll explore:

• animation for screen
• digital cinematography
• editing
• film analysis
• film history
• high-definition broadcast TV studio production
• scriptwriting
• short filmmaking
• sound design
• studio and location production
• the business of freelance work
• visual language.

You’ll also learn the art of storytelling in 2D and access Deakin’s 3D animation program. Gaining a broad understanding of moving image, graphic and animation practice, you’ll develop clever and creative ways of manipulating and animating images.

Working collaboratively with like-minded students on real industry briefs, you’ll graduate with a working portfolio. Draw from the expertise of our academic staff, who are active in screen production themselves, and gain knowledge and insights from within the industry.

You’ll also gain invaluable industry experience by working alongside your creative arts peers on a range of projects, such as broadcasting the Deakin Melbourne Boomers’ national basketball competition home games through a live stream on Fox Sports.

This course opens up employment opportunities in fictional or factual production for cinema and television – or within the corporate, educational and advertising sectors. You could also work as an animator in the arts or digital content industries.

As a film, television and animation graduate, you may find employment in fictional and factual production for cinema and television and in the corporate, educational, music video and advertising sectors.

Past graduates have launched their careers with national awards and international recognition (through film festivals) for their student work. Deakin’s internship program has also provided a start to successful careers in the field.

Deakin graduates work across the media and creative industries. Career opportunities include working as:

• animators
• audiovisual technicians
• camera operators
• documentary producers
• film and television producers or directors
• journalists
• film or television editors
• lighting designers
• presenters
• production managers
• scriptwriters
• sound engineers
• television program coordinators.