University degrees: Postgraduate
Course length: 18 months full time
Course city: Melbourne
The Master of Producing focuses on the creative and business aspects of being a successful producer. Learn how to manage film and television projects and gain the abilities to develop your own work producing a short creative project.
Skills learned include: organising film schedules, budgets, distribution, and management of film shoots and raising funding from private and public sources.
Producers at the VCA work on undergraduate and graduate films in animation, narrative and documentary developing practical skills and building networks with other students. Building a network that will assist you throughout your career.
Extend your creative abilities and business skills while developing a sound understanding of the structure of the Australian film, television and allied industries.
And gain an ability to take on key roles in the development of artistic works including decision making, implementation of ideas and leadership of teams.
Take on subjects such as the business of producing, producing and the industry, producing and the creative process, and filmcraft.
Produce a substantial short creative project, working with a final year project of a VCA student. Follow the project from pre-production through production to post production. Take the role of producer of that student production and oversee its distribution and marketing strategies.