Get work-ready
Take a real industry brief and learn how to bring it to life as you master the art of producing and directing for film, television and animation. You'll have access to industry experts and experienced academics as well as opportunities to build your portfolio through broadcast experience with Fox Sports programs.
Undergraduate
Undergraduate (your first degree)
An undergraduate degree is generally completed between two to four years, depending on the pattern of study and any recognition of prior learning you may have. Associate degrees, bachelor and bachelor with honours are all undergraduate degrees.
Postgraduate
Postgraduate (further study)
A postgraduate qualification can be undertaken by students who have already completed an undergraduate degree or possess significant, demonstrable work experience. Postgraduate courses include graduate certificates, graduate diplomas, master’s and PhDs, as well as specialist programs for industry professionals.
Research
Higher Degrees by Research (supervised research)
Research degrees are research based master’s or PhD programs that focus on a single area of expertise. They provide students the opportunity to carry out highly specialised research under expert supervision.
Career opportunities
Deakin film, television and animation graduates find employment in fictional and factual production for cinema and television. Many are also involved in the corporate, educational and advertising sectors.
Careers include:
- acting
- animator
- augmented reality
- cinematography
- directing
- editing
- freelancing
- lighting design
- motion design
- motion capture performance
- post-production
- production
- script writing
- sound design
- virtual reality.
In a creative sense I’m driven by a desire to convey mood and atmosphere, time and space, and the sharing of feeling and emotion through image. It’s the beauty of creating something moving, living and breathing out of the raw ingredients of filmmaking and animation.’
Giles Campbell-Wright
Film and television graduate
Cutting edge equipment and facilities
Get inspired with the latest production equipment and facilities, including world-class studios and professional editing suites. You will hone your skills and build a portfolio of professional work in facilities including our:
- grading and editing rooms
- green screen studio
- television broadcast studio.
Get a world class education at Deakin. Our media and communications discipline is ranked among the top 1% of universities worldwide – so you can be assured that what you learn is relevant to the industry and your future career.
Work experience opportunities
Work experience plays a critical role in developing your employability; students who undertake placements and internships are highly sought-after by employers. Students of film, television and animation have many work experience and networking opportunities prior to graduation, including broadcasting the Women’s National Basketball League competition through a live stream on Fox Sports.
Animation student Andrew talks about his one-year paid internship at GM Holden.
We're here to help
If you're dreaming of an exciting and rewarding career in film, television and animation, we'll help get you there.
What does it take to create an animation career?
Lydia and Riley are animators, teachers and long-time collaborators. Their recipe for building a career in animation? Hone your talent.
Three steps to find time for study, work and life
Set yourself up for success by following these three steps to manage your time.
Research with us
Got an interesting take on new or traditional media in film and television? Take your big idea further with a higher degree by research.
Recent Deakin research
Participatory Screens: Deakin Motion Lab
The Film, Television and Animation Team lead the Participatory Screens research stream within Deakin’s premiere research facility, Deakin Motion Lab. Participatory Screens is dedicated to community-led projects with recent partnerships that include, the Melbourne Women in Film Festival (led by Sian Mitchell), the Memories that Make us Italian migration documentary project (led by Sean Redmond and Martin Potter with CO.AS.IT.), the Synthetic Scene Creation project (led by Dirk De Bruyn), Light Pool (led by Lienors Torre and Rosemary Woodcock with Scienceworks), and Ladies of the Cemetery, a multi-channel video installation about two 19th century female ‘ghosts’ in the Cheltenham Pioneer Cemetery – their home for over a hundred years (led by Donna McRae with City of Kingston).
Film, television and animation at Deakin
Tour our film, tv and animation facilities
Dr Vikrant Kishore, takes you on a short virtual tour of the facilities used by Deakin's Bachelor of Film, Television and Animation students.
Film festivals
Students have the opportunity to take part in film festivals, and learn about their impact, while studying at Deakin. Lecturer in film, television and animation and festival director of the Melbourne Women in Film Festival, Dr Sian Mitchell, talks about the importance of festivals in providing students a platform to share their work with audiences around the world.
Deakin Live - Sports broadcasts
Dr Simon Wilmot talks about the industry program 'Deakin Live' that students from film, television and animation can work on.
Student film projects
Get a taste of where studying film, television and animation can take you with this showreel of student projects.
Browse other disciplines within media, communication and creative arts
Choose an area that you're interested in and learn how Deakin's extensive range of study options and experiences can help turn your dreams into reality.
*QS World University Rankings by Subject 2020