Note: this course accepts portfolio entry.

This major prepares you for comprehensive opportunities in the expanding screen-based media industry.

Throughout your studies you'll be able to develop and enhance your passion for creative media production and storytelling – skills that are sought after in many fields.

You'll develop practical and analytical skills while developing an understanding of a growing multiplatform industry. You'll learn to apply screen theories, understand the importance of cinema history and how screen communication informs, entertains and engages audiences – all of which will help you in creating your own works in the realms of factual events and drama.

You'll develop technical skills in areas such as production and emerging types of contemporary digital post-production (such as virtual backgrounds and visual effects), using Curtin’s advanced production facilities to develop the technical and practical skills of an effective visual storyteller. These facilities include:

• Western Australia’s largest working television studio in a tertiary setting
• a suite of high-definition cameras
• sound recording, lighting and grips equipment
• editing, grading and audio postproduction labs.

In your final year you’ll write, direct or produce a major screen production to industry standard.

If you choose to study Screen Arts as a single major, you’re encouraged to choose elective units from within the discipline, to enhance your understanding and career opportunities.