Bachelor of Creative Arts (Film and Screen)

    Bachelor of Creative Arts (Film and Screen)

    Duration3 year(s)
    Tuition Fee
    AUD 27,378 / per year
    Next IntakeJuly 28, 2026

    Bachelor of Creative Arts (Film and Screen)

    About

    Highlights

    • Develop skills across all aspects of screen production including cinematography, editing, sound or directing, or learn how to be a producer or scriptwriter.
    • Showcase your work to industry professionals and external clients at public screenings.
    • Choose from a range of genres including documentary, drama, television, and experimental film while exploring digital and mobile platforms.
    • Graduates have made films or programs that have won Oscars, Emmy, BAFTA, AFI and IF awards, and screened at major international and Australian film festivals.
    • Customise your Bachelor of Creative Arts (Film and Screen) degree to your desired career outcomes with options of a second major, minors and/or extensions and electives.
    • Unique course structure allows you to combine creative disciplines together to develop transferable skills across a range of industries.

    Our screens are changing. They range in all shapes and sizes from the latest large format cinema screens, immersive headsets, down to the screen on our phones that travel with us, and everything in between. Regardless of the size, one thing that drives us is the power of the storytelling that we create and view on these screens. These stories can shock us. Make us think. Make us laugh. Take us out of this world and send us on a fantasy journey. And the people who produce these moving pictures have never had more creative freedom.

    This film course for the digital age provides opportunities to develop your skills in traditional practices including producing, writing, editing, sound, cinematography and directing, and also new emerging practices in virtual production and extended reality. You will learn skills used in digital content production, gain business and leadership skills, and knowledge of how the entertainment industry works. Regardless of your chosen specialisation, this broad base of skills will make you attractive to employers, or set you up to better take control of your freelance career.

    The film and screen major will allow you to explore a wide range of career options within the film and screen industries before specialising in an area of your choice. If your passion is cinematography, editing, sound, writing, producing or directing, you will develop technical skills by producing high-quality, creative content. If you are interested in writing, developing or producing screen content, you will find your niche as a storyteller and creative entrepreneur, learning how to generate ideas and develop them into finished productions, source funding, and identify opportunities for collaboration and distribution.

    This course gives you the opportunity to work across all genres and areas of production, to build agility for you to respond to changing work conditions to build a sustainable career in the screen industry.

    Tailor your film and screen degree for your future with a second major or a combination of other creative field majors, minors and and/or extensions and electives that allow you to further specialise in production design, sound design, post production and visual effects, or script development.

    Requirements

    Entry Requirements

    Minimum English language requirements

    We accept English language proficiency scores from the following tests undertaken in a secure test centre. Tests must be taken no more than 2 years prior to the QUT course commencement.

    English TestOverallListeningReadingWritingSpeaking
    IELTS Academic / One Skill Retake 6.5 6 6 6 6
    Cambridge English Score
    You must share your results with QUT through the Candidate Results Online website.
    176 169 169 169 169
    PTE Academic 58 50 50 50 50
    TOEFL iBT 79 16 16 21 18

    Don't have the English language score you need? We can help!

    We offer English language programs to improve your English and help you gain entry to this course.

    When you apply for this course, we will recommend which English course you should enrol in.

    Career

    Careers and outcomes

    Graduates work in the film and screen industries on film sets, for production companies or screen media outlets, and as freelance professionals. Career outcomes include cinematography, vision and sound editing, directing, script-writing, producing or production management. Those who specialise in producing may aspire to work in research, production management, script development and editing, or programming and scheduling for screen media outlets. There are many opportunities for graduates to start their own specialised business in the industry. 

    Graduates have gone on to make films or programs that have won Oscars, Emmy, BAFTA, AACTA and IF awards. They have screened at prestigious festivals worldwide including Cannes, Tribeca, Berlinale, Sydney Film Festival, Melbourne International Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, Heart of Gold Short Film Festival, Byron Bay Film Festival and Tropfest. 

    Past QUT film and screen students have worked on television programs such as Burning Man, Doctor Strange, My Mistress, Hacksaw Ridge, Mad Max: Fury Road, The Revenant as well as TV series Hoff the Record, Secrets and Lies, True Detective, Westworld, The Night Manager and Battlebots. Students have also worked on music videos include for Powderfinger, Silverchair, Washington, and many others. 

    If teaching is your ambition, this course can be also followed with a graduate-entry teacher education Master of Teaching courses (check the entry requirements for specific teaching courses) which enables you to become a qualified teacher.  

    Pathways also exist to prepare you for further study including research.  

    Possible careers

    • Advertising professional
    • Artist
    • Digital content producer
    • Director
    • Film composer
    • Lighting designer
    • Lighting technician
    • Motion capture specialist
    • Multimedia designer
    • Post-production specialist
    • Sound and music producer
    • Sound designer
    • Technical director
    • Virtual production
    • XR producer

    Fee Information

    Tuition Fee
    27,378 / per year

    Bachelor of Creative Arts (Film and Screen)

    Queensland University of Technology

    Queensland University of Technology

    Australia

    Australia, Brisbane