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Overview

Honours is available for this course

The Screenwriting specialisation is designed for those who have the desire and talent to write audience-driven stories for the screen.

The Bachelor of Fine Arts (Screenwriting) is the premier screenwriting undergraduate degree in Australia. You will study the many facets of screenwriting through lectures, classes, screenings and practice-based exercises. The course covers:

Cinematic and television writing
Writing for the youth market
Adaptation
Writing for games
Web content.

You will gain industry expertise while developing your original voice and learn to write audience-driven stories for the screen. Housed in the VCA's department of Film and Television, this degree lives alongside other degrees in directing and producing for live-action fiction, animation and documentary.

In your final year, you will also collaboratively develop and write an original web series to be directed by Bachelor of Fine Arts (Film and Television) students. At the end of three years you’ll be equipped to write professionally for screen media, having acquired essential creative and technical skills such as generating and adapting stories for screen platforms, presenting work at a professional standard, giving and receiving constructive feedback and working in creative teams.

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 your writing style for screen productions (film, television, gaming and online)
Write an industry standard script for a short film or television pilot
Acquire ability to critically and constructively critique your own and peers’ work in the context of the broader history of screen culture.

Requirements

Entry Requirements

Admission criteria

This information will help you find the most useful and relevant admission and selection requirements based on your circumstances.

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.

English Program Requirements

IELTS 6.5 (with no band less than 6.0)

Career

Careers

As a graduate of this specialisation, you may find employment as a screen content developer, or screenwriter – in film, television, games and new medias - among others.

At the end of three years you will be equipped to write professionally for screen media, having acquired essential skills such as generating and adapting stories for screen platforms, presenting work at a professional standard, giving and receiving constructive feedback and working in creative teams.

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Fee Information

Application Fee 154