Bachelor of Fine Arts (Film and Television)

The Bachelor of Fine Arts (Film and Television) at the Victorian College of the Arts develops your creative voice and the skills to make distinctive screen programs to a high artistic and technical standard for all stages of film and television production. Our students and graduates continue to win numerous industry awards on the national and international stages, including festivals such as Berlin International, Cannes through to the Academy Awards.

As a Film and Television student, you will acquire creative, technical and analytical skills in an open environment that will encourage you to remain innovative and experimental in your work. This program will provide you with the opportunity to write, direct and edit your own work, as well as crew on fellow students’ productions.

You will have access to state-of-the-art facilities and resources, including fully equipped production studios, animation studios, and 90 and 220-seat cinemas; analogue and digital cinema cameras and audio recording kits; and HD digital vision and audio post-production facilities.

Breadth subjects at each year level enable you to explore cross disciplinary studies from the wider University community, accessing multi-disciplinary knowledge and skills that will build on existing knowledge or present opportunities for you to investigate and develop new interests.

You will

• Develop advanced, practical filmmaking skills including direction of actors, cinematography, sound recording and editing, production management, assistant directing and other fundamental principles of filmmaking
• Learn to research, develop, write and design a narrative short film
• Strengthen your individual creative voice, and crewing on your fellow students’ productions – which develops valuable peer networks and skills
• Acquire ability to critically and constructively critique your own and peers’ screen production work in the context of the broader history of screen culture
• Collaborate with VCA Theatre, Film and Television, and Production students throughout the course.

Future pathways

Upon completion of the course, you may choose to apply for a fourth-year Honours degree. An honours year provides an intensive mode of study allowing you to master your specialisation and create a pathway into advanced graduate study options in acting.

• Completed secondary education recently (within the past two years)
• • Once the course application is submitted applicants must pay an additional administration fee and complete a selection test via the supplementary application form. Applicants who are shortlisted from their selection test will also be required to attend an interview.
  • Applicants who satisfy these requirements will be assessed to ensure they meet the minimum entry requirements of the University - completion of the VCE or a qualification deemed by the University to be equivalent and meeting the University's English language requirement.
  • Once these academic requirements have been satisfied applicants are ranked according to the selection test and interview.

  ATAR-based admission information in Semester 1, 2024

  ATAR-based admission for the Bachelor of Fine Arts (all specialisations) (includes data also for any Bachelor of Fine Arts (all specialisations) Graduate Degree Package offers, if applicable).	ATAR
  Lowest ATAR where a recent Year 12 student offer was made (excluding students made offers through special entry schemes)	RC (Range of Criteria used for selection)
  Lowest ATAR to which an offer was made (including students made offers through special entry schemes)	RC (Range of Criteria used for selection)
  Minimum ATAR required for consideration (only applicants eligible for special entry schemes were admitted below the minimum)	RC (Range of Criteria used for selection)
  Guaranteed ATAR for applicants who completed Year 12 and were eligible for the Access Melbourne categories of rural or isolated and/or disadvantaged financial background*	N/A for this course
  Guaranteed ATAR for Indigenous applicants who completed Year 12	N/A for this course
  Guaranteed ATAR for Kwong Lee Dow Young Scholars who completed Year 12 and attended an under-represented school*	N/A for this course
  Guaranteed ATAR for Kwong Lee Dow Young Scholars who completed Year 12 and did not attend an under-represented school*	N/A for this course

  _{*All students who achieve the specified guaranteed ATAR and meet the course prerequisites will be offered a place}

  ATAR profile of those offered places in the Bachelor of Fine Arts (all specialisations) wholly or partly on the basis of ATAR in Semester 1, 2024 (includes data also for any Bachelor of Fine Arts (all specialisations) Graduate Degree Package offers, if applicable). Does not include consideration of student background and equity.

  ATAR-based offers only, across all offer rounds	ATAR
  Highest rank to receive an offer	RC (Range of Criteria used for selection)
  Median rank to receive an offer	RC (Range of Criteria used for selection)
  Lowest rank to receive an offer	RC (Range of Criteria used for selection)

• Completed some or all of a higher education qualification
• • Once the course application is submitted applicants must pay an additional administration fee and complete a selection test via the supplementary application form. Applicants who are shortlisted from their selection test will also be required to attend an interview.
  • Applicants who satisfy these requirements will be assessed to ensure they meet the minimum entry requirements of the University - completion of the VCE or a qualification deemed by the University to be equivalent and meeting the University's English language requirement.
  • Once these academic requirements have been satisfied applicants are ranked according to the selection test and interview.

• Completed some or all of a VET qualification
• • Once the course application is submitted applicants must pay an additional administration fee and complete a selection test via the supplementary application form. Applicants who are shortlisted from their selection test will also be required to attend an interview.
  • Applicants who satisfy these requirements will be assessed to ensure they meet the minimum entry requirements of the University - completion of the VCE or a qualification deemed by the University to be equivalent and meeting the University's English language requirement.
  • Once these academic requirements have been satisfied applicants are ranked according to the selection test and interview.

• Applicants with work and/or life experience
• • Once the course application is submitted applicants must pay an additional administration fee and complete a selection test via the supplementary application form. Applicants who are shortlisted from their selection test will also be required to attend an interview.
  • Applicants who satisfy these requirements will be assessed to ensure they meet the minimum entry requirements of the University - completion of the VCE or a qualification deemed by the University to be equivalent and meeting the University's English language requirement.
  • Once these academic requirements have been satisfied applicants are ranked according to the selection test and interview.