Bachelor of Screen Production
Bachelor of Screen Production
The Bachelor of Screen Production is a 3-year full-time course. It is a third-party arrangement between Excelsia College and Sydney Film School (SFS) with the program accredited and qualifications provided by Excelsia College. The course is taught by Excelsia staff (of whom many are also SFS lecturers) and is subject…
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COURSE DESCRIPTION
The Bachelor of Screen Production is a 3-year full-time course. It is a third-party arrangement between Excelsia College and Sydney Film School (SFS) with the program accredited and qualifications provided by Excelsia College. The course is taught by Excelsia staff (of whom many are also SFS lecturers) and is subject to Excelsia’s policies and procedures.
The course is taught at both the Sydney Film School Waterloo Studios campus and Excelsia’s Macquarie Park campus. Students will need to travel between these campuses during the duration of the course but won’t normally be required to travel between the two on a given day. Travel time is approximately 25mins by car and one hour by public transport.
An Excelsia Course Manager will be available at the Sydney Film School Waterloo campus to provide support to students.
Course overview
The Bachelor of Screen Production is a unique model of training that is value-driven, heavily practical, industry-informed, professionally sustainable and socially directed.
Students will experience:
• state-of-the-art studio facilities
• unrivalled production opportunities – our students make around 100 short films each year (subject to numbers and loading)
• their own production budgets included in the course fee
• an opportunity to build up to 12 to 16 screen credits over two years
• access to a pool of acting students through Excelsia College’s Dramatic Art program and Sydney Actors School
• an environment that replicates the real-world industry practice.
Over the entirety of the course students experience a variety of roles in numerous productions which enables a diverse skill set when entering the industry. Students are organised into working film crews to practise on-set exercises and develop the necessary creative and organisational documentation to launch into filming. Screen productions can include short films, web-series pilots, documentaries, and experimental projects. The course teaches unique theory and philosophy for contemporary filmmakers, offering rich terrain for cinematic exploration. The course aims to inspire filmmakers and creatives using centuries of compelling storytelling narrative and self-reflection integrated with modern concepts and industry practice.
The course has been designed for future
• writers
• sound recordists and sound editors or designers
• directors
• screen editors
• cinematographers
• production managers and coordinators.
• production designers
REQUIREMENTS
Educational Prerequisites
Applicants for admission into the Bachelor of Screen Production will be required to provide evidence of completion of the NSW Higher School Certificate or its interstate or overseas equivalent, or attainment of tertiary qualification, or satisfactory completion of at least one year’s full-time load in a tertiary course.
Overseas students applying for admission to Excelsia College courses must have reached the age of 18 years by the commencement of their studies. Excelsia College will not admit overseas students who have not yet reached 18 years of age.
English Language Proficiency
Candidates whose qualifying studies were completed in a language other than English will normally be required to demonstrate English proficiency equivalent to the overall minimum score of 6.0 ( no band less than 6) in the IELTS academic test.
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION
Established in 1983, Excelsia College is one of Australia’s leading Christian higher education providers based in Macquarie Park. We are an innovative and creative community of people who are passionate about excelling and growing academically, professionally, personally and spiritually. We offer a variety of courses across business, counselling, creative and performing arts, education and social work. Our students and alumni embark on a journey of lifelong learning and leadership.Excelsia is a community where people excel, are inspired and challenged by our motto ‘Participare Lumen’ (Share the Light) to benefit our world as we share the light of Christ and benefit of higher education within the world. Our educators seek to walk alongside each student on their unique and individual learning journey. With smaller classroom settings, students get to know their classmates and lecturers better and become part of the community.Excelsia promotes and fosters quality in teaching and learning through the implementation of our vision, mission, and institutional values. We provide academic skills support and pastoral support in the form of Mission Engagement Coordinators as well as free counselling services to our students. We also run student-led events throughout the year coordinated by our Student Representative Council (SRC).In the 2022 QILT Student Experience Survey (SES), 83.1 per cent of undergraduate students had a positive overall experience, higher than the national average of 75.9 per cent. Excelsia College has also achieved great results in undergraduate skills development, rating at 88.9 per cent, and teaching quality, rating 88.6 per cent. We are proud to have over 58 nationalities represented at our College, including the Philippines, Singapore, Nepal and India. Over 80 per cent of our students speak a language other than English.Within many of our courses, students undertake practical training in the form of placement opportunities so they can go out as confident, innovative individuals prepared to make a difference in their selected field.CRICOS provider number: 02664KTEQSA provider ID: PRV12064
