Creative Arts (Film and Screen), Bachelor

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. With this Bachelor of Creative Arts (Film and Screen) degree you’ll have the opportunity to work across these many genres and formats, readying you for your film and screen future career.  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.  You’ll have the opportunity to develop technical skills in directing, camera, editing and sound. To supplement the core skills you will learn on this course, you have the flexibility to customise your degree to fit your interests, with options to choose a second major, or a mix of other creative field majors, minors, and courses across multiple subjects.   You will also learn new ideas to challenge your thinking and develop your skills and capabilities to be able to make a real impact through QUT You units which focus on real-world issues to ready you for a fast-changing 21st Century.  Throughout this course, you will collaborate with other students on screen productions and be encouraged to develop ethical and respectful relationships that can assist you in professionalising your creative practice.   Upon graduation of this course, you will have developed a broad base of skills and hands on production experience to position you as an industry ready graduate equipped for a professional career in the screen industries. 

Double degrees

Combine your Bachelor of Creative Arts (Film and Screen) degree with a second study area for greater career flexibility and opportunities in other industries. Consider a double degree with: 

• behavioural science (psychology): combine your passion for creativity with psychology for an innovative career as a creative counsellor or practitioner.
• business: develop skills to run your own freelance business or work in advertising or corporate sectors by combining your film and screen degree with a Bachelor of Business.
• law: use your skills for career options working as a director, scriptwriter or production manager, a media lawyer involved in copyright disputes, negotiation of licenses and talent agreements, or a filmmaker specialising in crime or legal content.
• education (secondary): combine your interests in the arts with a passion to teach with a double degree in education. Additional entry requirements apply to the Bachelor of Education, see information on double degrees.