Course details

Summary

Considering a career in film and television? Train to be a screen professional and learn the creative, business and technical skills of pre-production, production and post production. This programme is hands-on and enables students to conceptualize and produce their own video and film projects.

Programme overview

The Bachelor of Performing and Screen Arts (Screen Arts), is an in-depth programme of study in which you will engage in a combination of creative, academic and practice-based courses designed to develop skills and qualities vital to the creative screen sector.

In Year One you will learn about the filmmaking process and industry as a whole, the relationship between specialist skills, creative and critical thinking, and storytelling. From Year Two you will start to specialize, gaining depth in a particular area of the industry.

Specialisation Options:

• Animation: includes drawing, motion graphics, 3D animation, visual effects, life drawing and illustration
• Camera and field sound: includes cinematography, location, new technologies, sound recording and colour grading
• Post production: includes editing and post production sound
• Production: includes production management, assistant directing, location management and scouting
• Screenwriting: includes creative writing, writing craft

Highlights

• Participate in hands-on learning through film, television and small screen projects designed to emulate the real world
• Experience different crew models such as working in small, tight teams, as well as in full industrial crews, as you would on a television or film set
• The real world of performing and screen arts: work collaboratively with acting, dance, art department and costume students to gain real-world, on-set experience when working in the studio and on location
• Small class sizes in specialist areas allow for lecturers to mentor students
• Students interested in directing can take a mixture of lectures, screenings and workshops
• Specialist programme designed to develop the necessary skills to succeed in the screen industry
• Access to our equipment and facilities for 12 months after you graduate so you can continue to develop your projects and career

CAREER OPTIONS

• Cinematographer
• Editor
• Production manager
• Director
• Screenwriter
• Researcher
• Camera assistant/gaffer/grip
• Sound recordist
• Editor
• Post supervisor
• Sound designer
• Production Co-ordinator
• Content developer

Entry criteria

For this programme, you will need the following:

1. 42 credits at NCEA Level 3 or higher including:

• 14 credits in two different approved subjects; and
• 14 credits from up to two subjects (approved or non-approved)

2. 8 credits at NCEA Level 2 or higher in English or Te Reo Maori (4 in reading, 4 in writing)

3. 14 credits in NCEA Level 1 or higher in Mathematics or Pangarau

English Language requirements:

• Have achieved NCEA Level 3 and New Zealand University entrance
• NZCEL (Academic) (Level 4)
• IELTS score of 6 with no band score lower than 5.5
• TOEFL (pBT) Paper-based test score of 550 (essay 5 TWE)
• TOEFL (iBT) Internet-based test score of 60 (writing 18)
• FCE or FCE for schools, or CAE, or CPE with a score of 169. No less than 162 in each skill. OET at Grade C in all sub-tests
• Pearson Test of English (PToE) Academic with a score of 50 with no score lower than 42