C04107v3 Master of Media Arts and Production

Overview

This course is designed for graduates in media production, or those with significant experience in the field, to allow them to advance their skills and theoretical understanding of the consumption and production of media products.

The course further develops professional skills in at least one area of media production: multimedia, sound, radio, music, performance, or film and video. Under supervision, students create a major piece of production work in film, video, sound, radio, new media, performance or installation.

Course aims

This course aims to provide students with the opportunity to sharpen their levels of conceptual skills and critical thinking in media production; enhance their knowledge of media cultures and industries; increase their capacity to conceptualise innovative, creative project ideas independently; research creative project ideas to an advanced level; and experience the creative and technical development of a significant production.

Career options

Career options include cinematographer, documentary maker, filmmaker, film producer, new media producer, screenwriter or sound designer.

Articulation

Additional admission requirements

Applicants must demonstrate a very strong level of education, background and capability. Applicants must also have an undergraduate degree and/or professional or creative experience in a media production field and have demonstrated a high level of interest and knowledge and a record of achievement in the media and communication fields evidenced by a portfolio of work created, produced or directed by the applicant.

Additional recognition of prior learning

Students who successfully complete the Graduate Certificate in Film and Video, New Media or Sound, or the Graduate Diploma in Media Arts and Production, are eligible for recognition of prior learning for completed subjects in the Master's program.

Course duration and attendance

This course is one-and-a-half years of full-time, or equivalent part-time study.

Course structure

Students complete 48 credit points in one of three streams (Film and Video, New Media, or Sound) and a Master's project, equivalent to 24 credit points.

Full-time students are required to undertake 24 credit points per semester. Part-time students should undertake 16 credit points per semester.

Course completion requirements

Course program

Example programs in each of the three possible streams are shown below. Check the UTS online timetable when selecting subjects from option lists as not all subjects are offered in the proposed semester.

Note: the Film and Video stream full-time and part-time programs shown are for Autumn-commencing students. Students commencing in Spring semester undertake the same sequence of subjects as Autumn-commencing students.

Example programs for the New Media and Sound streams are shown for full-time programs only. Students wishing to undertake part-time study in these programs should use the full-time typical programs as a guide to the sequence when selecting two subjects per semester.

Other information

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