2011 Multiplatform Screen Producer Scholarship APPLICATIONS NOW CLOSED

To register your interest please email our Multiplatform coordinator Julie

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Advanced Diploma 2011 Application Pack [488kb]

This accredited Advanced Diploma of Screen and Media [CUF60107] - Multiplatform Screen Producer Scholarship - offers talented aspiring producers the opportunity to hone their skills and take their careers to the next level.

Course overview

• Hone above-the-line skills including financing, budgeting, intellectual property management, strategic marketing, pitching and negotiation for multiplatform specific projects.
• Improve technical production know-how across online and innovative platforms, including skills to produce online content and multiplatform content
• Practical sessions on story telling and story development, delivered by experienced transmedia writers and script advisors, concepts will be tested and refined
• Gain the opportunity to practise your presentation and public speaking skills with a Client Brief project and Individual Multiplatform project
• Develop online material in the form of an interactive blog and 2-3 min multiplatform teaser/ trailer, to build your online presence as a producer
• Develop 2 ‘Transmedia Bibles’ [long form pitch documents] for your portfolio
• Expand your contacts and reach as a producer by networking with other producers and multiplatform content creator

Course tutors include

• Producer Marcus Gillezeau winner of the International Digital Emmy for his multiplatform drama ‘Scorched’ in 2009
• BBC multiplatform pioneer Gary Hayes
• Executive Producer of Online at Austereo Emily Rayner
• Writer Tim Wilde whose credits include the Emmy-nominated multiplatform work ‘Primeval Evolved’

Funding

The NSW Department of Education and Training supported Metro Screen’s proposal for this scholarship program in recognition of the significance of multiplatform modes of production and the important role that creative and innovative producers will play in the Australian screen industry.

Details

• Advanced Diploma of Screen and Media [CUF60107]
• Part-time for 30 weeks [three 10 week terms] plus 5 day full-time production intensive.
• 390 hours [30 weeks x 12 hours plus one week x 30 hours]
• Two evenings and a full day on Saturday each week
• Mon 6.15–9.15pm, Weds 6.15–9.15pm, Sat 9.30am–4.30pm
• Induction Evening Wed 15 Dec

"We are the next generation of innovators coming through in this emerging industry, we, my fellow graduates are its guardians and it is my hope that Sydney and Australia becomes what we all believe it can, a mecca for concepts and projects that blow audiences away both internationally and domestically."
James Boyce

2010 successes

Claire Evans, Anna Bay and James Boyce headed to MIPCOM 2010 in Cannes to take their in-class multiplatform concept to market. MIPCOM 2010 attracts the key decision makers across the entire TV content value chain: 12,000 participants from 102 countries. Our three students pitched their multiplatform concept: Crime Plays.

Sandra Pires with Beneath Black Skies
Sandra is a current participant of the Metro Screen Multiplatform Scholarship course and her documentary Beneath Black Skies won a National Trust Heritage  Award and premiered on the History Channel on 8th May. On the 26th May, Peter Garrett MP will introduce it in a special screening in  Parliament. The documentary acknowledges the history of coal mining and labour movement. The Illawarra, South of Sydney, once held a reputation for the  dustiest and gassiest coal mines in Australia. Australia's two most tragic and largest industrial disasters took  place within 20 years and within twenty kilometres of each other. Narrated by David Field and Produced/Directed by Sandra Pires DOP  Javier Valledor

Daniel Prypchan
Metro Screen producing student Daniel Prypchan has won the Audience Choice Award at the Sandfly Film Festival for short film 'Germany'. 'Germany' [written/directed by Venetia Taylor and featuring Ben Raglione, Helen Tonkin and Jan Langford-Penny] has screened at the Over The Fence Comedy Film Festival [WA] and will screen next at the Revelation Perth International Film Festival in July.

“There is a rapidly growing demand for skilled content creators who have a thorough understanding of conceptual, development and production demands of multiplatform producing, which is exactly what this course allows.”
Marcus Gillezeau, course tutor and winner of the first International Digital Emmy Award for his multiplatform work ‘Scorched’

"This course offered an insight in to a whole other world of storytelling, which has kept me in bewilderment and amazement for the whole 30 weeks, great class mates, brilliant industry professional tutors, and a great environment to study, I highly recommend this course." Graduate Justin Morrissey

"The Metro Screen Multiplatform Scholarship is extremely current and relevant, providing you with great skills and literacy in the new media landscape - from transmedia storytelling and iPhone App development to Augmented Reality and new digital business models. Taught by industry pros, it has opened my eyes to a whole new world of possibility."
Sharna Bregman, Miralight www.miralight.com.au