AFTRS

 

Documentarymakers are catalysts for change and learning as they generate new ways of telling factual stories...

 

The Documentary department at AFTRS currently offers the following postgraduate level courses specifically for documentarymakers:

 

GRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN DOCUMENTARY FUNDAMENTALS

ARE YOU AN EMERGING DOCUMENTARY MAKER LOOKING TO IMPROVE YOUR SKILLS AND UNDERSTAND HOW TO CONNECT WITH INDUSTRY?

You will learn about multi-platform storytelling, research and development, story analysis, scripting on the run, budgeting, pitching, archive use, intellectual property, interviewing, the current Australian documentary landscape and creative collaborations. It is ideal for filmmakers with ideas in development who want to know how to move them forward. By the end of this course you will have acquired a practical toolkit for directing as well as development and an understanding of the industry.

This course overlaps with three other Graduate Certificates (Screenwriting, Producing and Directing) giving you the chance to develop ongoing collaborative relationships.

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GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN DOCUMENTARY


EXTEND YOUR SKILLS AND IMPACT AS A DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKER.

This course focuses on the future of non-fiction storytelling and engages with the latest innovations in documentary storytelling, opening with practical masterclasses from an acclaimed international director. During the course, you will work on solo
and large crew shoots and across a variety of formats and styles with a range of subjects and professional actors. There are four short-filmed exercises: a cinema style doco, a hybrid exercise utilising a mixture of fiction and non-fiction techniques, an observational exercise and a re-enactment. The syllabus also includes modules in advanced research techniques and skills, interview and performance and culminates in an intensive workshop focused on the development of a slate of projects ready to take into market.

 

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MASTER OF SCREEN ARTS*

DO YOU WANT TO MAKE A REAL IMPACT AND CREATE EXCELLENT WORK THAT CUTS THROUGH?

You will initiate and realise a major project that is only limited by your imagination and the resources AFTRS is able to provide. Hone your specialist skills through a tailored, in-depth and intensely practically focused course that will help you achieve mastery in your chosen area of specialisation, and also investigate Australian screen history and big philosophical and sociological ideas in action for context and meaning,. You will be supported to map out your own path in what is an increasingly competitive marketplace as you collaborate with others to achieve genuinely innovative work.

* Only open to AFTRS Graduates who completed a Graduate Diploma between 2009 and 2011. Applicants will need to have demonstrated a high degree of originality and assured craft skills to gain entry into the course.

 

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