Arts and education facilities
Create and innovate in state-of-the-art facilities
The Faculty of Arts and Education is proud of its industry-leading equipment and world-class facilities that support every aspect of your learning, research and practice. We’ll help you find your inspiration, nurture your passion and refine the skills crucial to your career success.
Industry-grade facilities to hone your skills
Discover what’s possible in our specialty learning spaces and access a range of facilities and resources. Whether you’re pursuing your passion in education, languages, creative arts, communications, design and film, television or animation – we’ll equip you with the tools in the very best facilities to help you develop your skills for your future career.
Design and creative arts facilities
Discover what’s possible in our specialty learning spaces. Access a range of resources and choose to collaborate, create and nurture your practice.
Professional photography facilities
We've got a professional photographic light studio, digital photographic printing and editing facilities, and a darkroom. We also have an extensive range of professional digital cameras that are the first preference for the world's best filmmakers and photographers.
Education and teaching facilities
Immerse yourself in the classroom experience at Deakin. You’ll get to build your confidence and explore specialised teaching spaces, classrooms and learning resources that are supported by the latest digital technology in a safe and supportive environment.
Specialised teaching spaces
Experience different classroom environments virtually in our world-class 360-degree theatre at our Nyaal interactive learning precinct at Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus. This highly interactive and technology-rich facility allows you to develop and test solutions to real-world scenarios using simulated classrooms to visualise ideas and bring innovative solutions to life.
Get a feel for our arts and education facilities
Bachelor of Primary Education students studying 'The Arts'. This unit encourages hands-on learning for educators across visual arts, music and drama.
Experience different classroom environments virtually in a 360-degree theatre at our Nyaal interactive learning precinct, Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus.
The wardrobe department where creative arts students are supported to make costumes for performance, or use costumes from the large storeroom which is filled from so many years of shows.
The Newsroom that media and communication students use. It includes seven large screens to stream live news from around the world, individual editing/vox recording suites, and sound recording booths for podcast production.
Our professional photographic lighting studios include an extensive range of Profoto professional flash units, modifiers, Zeiss lenses, an overhead grid system and colour calibrated monitors for live capture.
Theatre students use this industry-standard theatre that includes a state-of-the-art led lighting rig, full production sound capabilities, wings, access to the green room and two more black box style drama studios.
The sound studio features Grace and Audient mic preamps, has a range of Neumann, Rode and Sennheiser microphones, a control room featuring AVID Protools HD system and carries tie‐lines for satellite tracking.
Learn traditional and alternative photographic methods in our dark room, which includes black and white film processing facilities, and enlargers for 35mm, 120 medium and 4x5 large formats.
One of Deakin’s Dance studios - fully sprung polished timber floor, full length mirrors, remote controlled blackout blinds, comprehensive production lighting and sound infrastructure, portable seating block (seats 120).
Burwood Campus is home to Deakin Studios and our fabulous virtual production studio. You’ll learn from academics who are creative professionals and get to see your ideas realised on the big screen.
Like what you see? Study with us!
Our courses are backed by world-class facilities and expert staff. Plus, you can access industry-grade equipment. Explore your area of interest and find your ultimate course.
The knowledge and skills acquired by students for virtual production prepares them well for employment in this and other digitally led creative industries.
Head of Art and Design
Nyaal immersive learning precinct
Nyaal – a Wadawurrung word meaning ‘to open your eyes’ – allows you to respond to and learn from a range of changeable environments, conditions and scenarios. The 360-degree theatre, collaborative think tank and event space provide an interactive experience for all our students.
Film, television and animation facilities
Explore your on-screen creative vision using industry-grade virtual production equipment, develop your skills in film and television studios, work in our editing suite and get hands-on experience with animation software. You’ll also be able to access professional equipment including lighting and high-grade cameras, the choice of film directors.
TV and virtual production at Deakin Studios
Deakin Studios (Burwood) has a virtual production, TV, film and animation studio. Get hands-on experience using professional equipment, including our camera motion control rig, grading and editing rooms, green screen studio, hand-drawn animation light boxes and television broadcast studios. You’ll be fully supported to learn the technical skills you need to see your ideas come to life on the big screen.
Bring your industry project to life in our facilities
Students can gain hands-on experience in live sports broadcasting and creative productions, utilising state-of-the-art facilities such as Deakin’s outside broadcast (OB) van and virtual production studios. The Deakin Production and Creative Arts Industry Hub connects businesses with student interns and offers access to specialised equipment for tailored project solutions.
Inside Deakin’s Virtual Production Studio
Jasmine, a Bachelor of Film, Television and Animation graduate with a passion for virtual production, takes us on a tour of our Virtual Production Studio. Find out from our students why they love studying at Deakin.
See your ideas come to life on the big screen
Bringing together style and story, our film, television and animation students see their creative ideas realised on big and small screens. See how you’ll learn diverse ways to engage audiences through the power of screen production throughout our courses.
Interactive language facilities
Deakin offers language diplomas in Arabic, Chinese, Indonesian and Spanish. We’ve created gamified language learning platforms that enhance interactive learning beyond the traditional classroom, while maintaining authentic human-to-human interaction. Plus, we’re adopting artificial intelligence (AI) tools to enhance language acquisition.
Media and communications facilities
Go to work in our collaborative state-of-the art news production area with an editorial hub where you can refine your skills in an industry‑grade media environment.
Industry-standard newsroom
Learn in a world-class newsroom and creative media lab. It’s an industry standard media environment at our Melbourne Burwood Campus. The lab and newsroom include:
- a green-screen studio linked to the newsroom and other creative production suites, to produce video content
- a collaborative news production area with an editorial hub, workstations and monitors to stream live TV news channels
- editing booths for audio and audiovisual editing and to conduct recorded interviews in acoustically quiet spaces
- shared computer spaces for students to work together on a single digital production
- creative spaces for collaborative learning and team projects.
Contact us
If you have further questions about our arts and education facilities, please get in touch.
Domestic students
1800 693 888
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International students
+61 3 9918 9188
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