Overview
Throughout the Screen Development major, you will explore key areas of storytelling and screenwriting such as story structures, developing characters, action, and genre; screen business including producing, distribution, marketing, and exhibition; and screen culture with a focus on film festivals, audiences and celebrity. You have the opportunity to develop your story concepts and ideas from their initial stages through to a capstone screenwriting project, collaborating with your fellow students through drafting processes to pitch your story for later production.
You will enhance your creative and critical thinking skills through the study of audio-visual language, developments in global screen movements, histories and technologies, and applying these skills and knowledge in practical and experimental projects. Graduates will be prepared to enter the dynamic world of the screen and creative industries as innovative, knowledgeable and collaborative practitioners.
Key information
Unit set code
MJ-A351002 (major)
Students undertaking the Screen Development major sequence (MJ-A351002) cannot undertake the Screenwriting minor sequence (MN-A351002)
Campuses
Burwood (Melbourne)
Career outcomes
- screenwriters and narrative designers
- screen and creative producers
- content producers for corporate and digital media industries
- cinema and film festival programmers and curators
- production managers
- film critics
- screen researchers
- videographers
Explore units
To complete a Major sequence in Screen Development complete the eight (8) units as specified below
You can study Screen development as part of the following courses
Bachelor of Film, Television and Animation
Study film, television, and animation at Deakin. Our Bachelor of Film, Television, and Animation gives you the skills to forge a dynamic career in screen media.