Bachelor of Design Arts - Major in Filmmaking and Photography

Craft captivating visual stories across diverse realms.

Direct your lens towards the art of digital photography, and pan across both in-studio and outdoor techniques.

Focus on filmmaking, collaborating to splice together thrilling narratives.

Get your career in digital visual effects and animation in frame, and shoot!

Note: you need to apply for the Bachelor of Design Arts. You will commence study in your chosen major during your second trimester of the course.

CRICOS Course Code: 058836K

Purpose-built facilities and equipment

Benefit from specialised resources, like:

• Photography studio with cyclorama
• Printing and scanning equipment
• Audiovisual equipment
• Props and background paper
• Computer lab
• Lighting equipment

Enjoy spacious classrooms and use cutting-edge tools to enhance creativity, gaining practical skills with industry-standard equipment and technology.

Exploration, Contextual, and Professional Practice Units

Exploration Units

Discover design fundamentals via workshop-based study that focuses on expanding foundational understanding of design.

Workshop: Body (WRKB)

Focus on adorning the body. Explore the importance of identity in art and design. Play with the translation of 3D to 2D. Explore soft materials and form.

Workshop: Image (WRKI)

Learn the fundamentals of image capture via photography and film. These translate into contemporary digital display contexts, including popular social media applications.

Workshop: Message (WRKM)

Explore and play with digital software (e.g., Adobe Illustrator). Develop product and brand identity constructs using bold and confident ideas.

Workshop: Space (WRKS)

Focus on the environment and responsible innovation, learning to create and understand 3D spaces that connect, engage, challenge, and disrupt.

Visual Foundations (ACC111)

Explore a range of design communication methods, from design concept through to ‘the pitch,’ including technical illustration, image manipulation, and layout.

Elective: Brand Strategy (ELE001)

Create a brand strategy for a new product, experience, or retail concept. Develop a Brand Tool Kit and explore promotional aspects that capture branding.

Elective: Design & Wellbeing (ELE002)

Further design and artistic processes. Study and apply wellbeing in creativity through the lens of people, place, and product.

Contextual Units

Explore the impact of context (e.g., historical, trends, visual thinking, technology, culture) on designers' and artists' work and realisation of vision. Experiment in a collaborative learning environment to articulate and understand key influences on art and design.

Design, History & Culture (AXC111)

Explore significant moments from the history of art and design, and interrogate the milestones and foundations that have shaped creative practice.

Social Trend Forecasting (AXC121)

Develop an understanding of how trends are forecast. Analyse, discuss, and develop concepts. Communicate insights by forecasting social and cultural impacts.

Design, Issues & Impact (AXC231)

Explore basic concepts important to critical thought and its visual application. Analyse storytelling and narrative aligned to key themes and concepts.

Global Design Culture (AXE241)

Challenge and reference cultural and sub-cultural shifts. Analyse and respond to social, cultural, and technological changes in modern design, from the industrial revolution to postmodernism.

Professional Practice

Practising artists and designers provide important insights into contemporary practice.

Hear from a range of local and overseas professionals about what is occurring in industry and how they are succeeding in their field. Engage in related personal reflection.

Business Principles (ACC241)

Undertake an entrepreneurial project that engages with the creative industries. Critically analyse business models, supply systems, and production methods. Develop ideas and opportunities to support design business growth.

Professional Practice & Systems (BPC351)

Gain specific insights into selected industry concentrations. Explore systems embedded into the industry relevant to their discipline from concept to consumer.

Professional Placement (APE241)

Further your practical design education in a professional practice placement.

Personal & Professional Practice (BPC361)

Position yourself within your industry, investigate appropriate career pathways, prepare applications for roles in design and art organisations.

Professional Communication (BCC351)

Participate in a capstone project that provides a platform to showcase a final body of work as a major digital or physical project installation.

Design Laboratories

Learn and practise knowledge and skills specific to your major in LCI Design Laboratories, the core of the Bachelor of Design Arts degree.

Engage with the full spectrum of the design and artistic process in studio-based labs. Respond to an industry brief, work on a global project, with a global brand, or generate ideas to solve contemporary issues. 

Progress through a series of lab themes (foundational, issues, global, and industry) beginning in trimester 2. Put it all together in your final lab: produce and showcase an advanced body of work that expresses your creative ethos. 

Design Laboratory: Foundation (LABP101)

Experiment with the fundamentals of film and photography. Acquire an artistic approach to the camera. Practise technical skills in understanding light, colour, composition, and line.

Design Technology (APP121)

Explore introductory technical skills required to perform professionally in your major area of study. Engage with interactive, 2D, and 3D technical design. Create design templates and digital models.

Design Laboratory: Issues (LABP102)

Adapt fundamental photography concepts to and devise a campaign for an industry brief. Discuss and critically apply ideas, processes, and implementations surrounding industry campaigns.

Design Sub Major (ASP111)

Develop foundational knowledge of an alternate discipline. Develop basic skills and understanding by conceptualising ideas and contextualising work within an alternate industry practice.

Design Laboratory: Global (LABP203)

Engage with long-form narrative in documentary form and how to sustain an idea. Incorporate research and interview techniques, capture supplementary footage (b-roll), and put together a story in filming form.

Design Laboratory: Industry (LABP204)

Explore and discuss relationships with industry partners. Experiment with applying partner aesthetics to different projects and for different clients.

Design Laboratory: Capstone (LABP205)

Apply acquired lab concepts to develop major bodies of work for presentation. Emerge as a young professional through exploratory creative development and presentation of original ideas and viable concepts.