Bachelor of Film, Television and Animation
2023 Deakin University Handbook
| Year | 2023 course information |
|---|---|
| Award granted | Bachelor of Film, Television and Animation |
| Campus | Offered at Burwood (Melbourne) For students who commenced prior to 2023 only |
| Duration | 3 years full-time or part-time equivalent |
| CRICOS course code | 095258K Burwood (Melbourne) |
| Deakin course code | A351 |
| Approval status | This course is approved by the University under the Higher Education Standards Framework. |
| Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) recognition | The award conferred upon completion is recognised in the Australian Qualifications Framework at Level 7. |
Please note: The Bachelor of Film, Television and Animation requires students to be on-campus for discipline specific equipment, software and assessment activities. | |
The final intake to this course version was in 2022. Students should contact a Student Adviser in Student Central for course and enrolment information. Further course structure information can be found in the Handbook archive. | |
Course sub-headings
- Course overview
- Career opportunities
- Participation requirements
- Mandatory student checks
- Fees and charges
- Course Learning Outcomes
- Course rules
- Course structure
- Work experience
- Other learning experiences
Course overview
Learn how to take a great story and shape it for film, TV and online platforms. Create live-action and animated films across documentary, drama and more experimental productions. Deakin’s Bachelor of Film, Television and Animation enables you to explore storytelling on screen through multiple roles and practices, while developing your communication and specialist skill set within the dynamic fields of screen production and screen culture.
Drawing from the expertise of teachers who are active and well-connected in industry, you will work collaboratively with like-minded students on real industry briefs. You will have access to industry-standard facilities and equipment including a high-definition television broadcast studio, digital cinema RED and Ursa cameras, sound studio, editing and grading suites and stop motion animation stations.
By the time you graduate, you’ll have a creative portfolio, budding professional network and invaluable industry knowledge to give you the competitive edge future employers are searching for.
Do you want to produce and direct in the film and television industry?
Bring storytelling to the screen through a number of production and post-production roles and practices. Through this course, you will explore:
- animation and motion graphics
- directing and producing
- digital cinematography
- editing and visual effects
- film history and analysis
- multi camera TV studio production
- scriptwriting
- short fictional and factual filmmaking
- sound recording and design
- studio and location production
- the business of freelance work
- visual language.
Learning the art of storytelling in 2D and through our 3D animation program, you’ll develop clever and creative ways to animate characters and worlds while gaining an understanding of animation principles and production techniques.
Prepare for a career specialising in the creative and technical fields of animation, film, and television through practical production experience, film analysis and work-integrated learning. Gain invaluable industry experience through internship opportunities, such as crewing on sports broadcasts through the Deakin LiveStream OB van.
With applied technical knowledge and hands-on industry experience, you will graduate ready for employment opportunities in fictional and factual production for film, television and digital content industries – or within the corporate, educational and advertising sectors.
Career opportunities
Deakin film, television and animation graduates find employment in fictional and factual production, broadcast, exhibition and distribution across the media landscape and creative industries around the world.
Past graduates have launched their careers with national awards and international recognition through film festivals with their student work. Deakin’s internship program has also provided a start to many successful careers in the field.
Career opportunities include working as:
- corporate content producers
- cinema programmers and film critics
- editors and colourists
- film production crew in directing, camera, sound and lighting departments
- motion designers and animators
- post-production coordinators
- production managers
- sound designers
- television broadcast technicians
- television presenters
- writers, directors and producers
- videographers.
Participation requirements
Reasonable adjustments to participation and other course requirements will be made for students with a disability. More information available at Disability support services.
Mandatory student checks
Any unit which contains work integrated learning, a community placement or interaction with the community may require a police check, Working with Children Check or other check.
Fees and charges
Fees and charges vary depending on your course, the type of fee place you hold, your commencement year, the units you choose and your study load.
Tuition fees increase at the beginning of each calendar year and all fees quoted are in Australian dollars ($AUD). Tuition fees do not include textbooks, computer equipment or software, other equipment or costs such as mandatory checks, travel and stationery.
Use the Fee estimator to see course and unit fees applicable to your course and type of place. Further information regarding tuition fees, other fees and charges, invoice due dates, withdrawal dates, payment methods is available on our Current students fees website.
Course Learning Outcomes
| Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes | Course Learning Outcomes |
| Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities | Demonstrate the knowledge and skills to:
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| Communication | Effectively communicate the intent, design approaches and ideas in creative work through written, oral and digital form to a range of audiences. |
| Digital literacy | Evaluate requirements for, make recommendations in relation to, and use high level digital film, television and animation production technologies to create film and television products to be distributed through a range of digital platforms. |
| Critical thinking | Develop, research and evaluate ideas, concepts and processes for making film, television and animation productions, through creative, critical and reflective thinking and practice. |
| Problem solving | Apply narrative, aesthetic, technical, logistical, organisational, critical and interpersonal skills and knowledge to produce film, television and animation productions. |
| Self-management | Demonstrate autonomy, initiative and responsibility, an ability to self-evaluate and manage time and resources to fulfil the obligation of working in a collaborative environment and to identify, evaluate and research project needs and solutions as a reflective practitioner. |
| Teamwork | Demonstrate the ability to work in different capacities in a range of production team models in film, television and animation production. |
| Global citizenship | Demonstrate an awareness of cultural and social diversity and issues of globalisation in film, television and animation. |
| Approved by Faculty Board January 2017 | |
Course rules
To qualify for the award of Bachelor of Film, Television and Animation a student must complete 24 credit points including:
- 18 credit points of core units (includes course electives chosen from Lists A and B)
- 6 credit points of open electives
- no more than 10 credit points at level 1
- minimum of 6 credit points at level 3
- AAI018 Academic Integrity (0-credit-point compulsory unit)
Course structure
Level 1
| ACF103 | Writing with the Camera |
| ACF104 | Screening History [previously ALC106] |
| ACF214 | Screen Practices [replaces ACF106] |
| ADA107 | Principles of Animation [replaces ACF107] |
Level 2
| ACF211 | Screen Careers |
Level 3
| ACF307 | Major Screen Project A - Development (2 credit points^) |
| ACF308 | Major Screen Project B - Production (2 credit points^) |
| ACC317 | Communication and Creative Arts Internship A |
| ACF320 | The Australian Moving Image |
^ 2024 is the final offering of ACF307 and ACF308 as 2 credit point units, from 2025 both units will be revised to 1 credit point.
Electives
Complete six electives, of which at least two must be 2nd or 3rd level
We suggest students complete at least 4 units in a subject area different to their degree, preferably a linked sequence of study in the same area. Students with a strong interest in animation should add units in 3-D Animation, Motion and similar units in the Bachelor of Design. More generally your best choices are often found in the subject areas of the Bachelor of Arts. Additional course elective units can be taken as open electives.
Course Electives List A
Complete three 1-credit point units chosen from the following course electives list A:
ACF106 Screen Practices (No longer available for enrolment)
| ACI101 | Analogue Photography |
| ACP103 | Acting Studio |
| ADA102 | Designing 3D Animated Environments |
| ADD105 | Design Fundamentals [replaces ACG103] |
| ALW101 | Writer's Toolkit: Craft and Creativity |
| IND101 | Introduction to Aboriginal Studies |
Course Electives List B
Complete four 1-credit point units chosen from the following course electives list B*:
Film/Television production-based units
| ACF217 | Production Design for Screen and Performance [replaces ACA201] |
| ACP207 | Director's Workshop [replaces ACA202] |
| ACF215 | The Art and Design of Sound [replaces ACA203] |
| ACF201 | Short Fiction Film [final offering 2023, replaced by ALW227 from 2024] |
| ACF202 | Documentary Production |
| ACF205 | Television Studio Production |
| ACF208 | Cinematography |
| ACF209 | Unit description is currently unavailable |
| ACF210 | Postproduction |
Film Theory units
| ACF206 | Contemporary Topics in Screen Cultures |
| ACF304 | Celebrity Industries |
Animation production-based units
| ACF207 | Animation Project [final offering 2023, replaced by ADT203 from 2024] |
| ADA206 | Visual Effects and Effects Animation [replaces ACF212] |
| ADA201 | Character Design and Development for Animation |
| ADA202 | Character Animation |
| ADA204 | Animated Motion Graphics |
* students may require specific prerequisites, please check these to select course elective list B selection appropriately.
Work experience
Elective units may provide the opportunity for Work Integrated Learning experiences.
Assessment
Assessment within the award of Bachelor of Film, Television and Animation varies from written assignments and/or examination to practical and technical exercises and performance. In some units assessment may also include class participation, online exercises, seminar exercises and tests.
Other course information
Course duration - additional information
Course duration may be affected by delays in completing course requirements, such as accessing or completing work placements.
Further information
Student Central can help you with course planning, choosing the right units and explaining course rules and requirements.
- Contact Student Central
Other learning experiences
Public Screenings & Industry Awards: Capstone unit students show their films at the Deakin Film and TV Visionnaire Awards screenings Sponsors include Final Draft, Black Magic, the Australian Cinematographers Society, Sound Firm, Chameleon Casting, Medea Films and the Australian Production Design Guild (APDG).
Opportunities for WIL (work integrated learning ) include Deakin LiveStream, an outside broadcast multi-camera production crew, various industry media companies and cultural events through university partnerships.