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Explore the language and culture of France through the lens of this important national cinema. Get critical about techniques and themes. See significant movements in French society depicted on screen, including Nouvelle Vague and New Realism. 

Explore avant-garde cinema and experimental screen arts through different lenses—dada and surrealism, cameraless film, and structural film. Innovate and synthesise your learnings into an original new project. Critically reflect on your experience.

Realise a dramatic concept in a first draft then revise it with a second. Utilise professional screenplay formatting. Develop loglines and screenplay design plans. Construct complex characters and an engaging story to create a marketable screenplay

Recognise the power of cinematography, editing and mise en scene in crafting film language. Dig into a host of cinematic genres. Place yourself in the role of film theorist and unpack the intentions of some of cinema’s great directors.

Watch how society has generated and assigned celebrity since the 20th century. Ponder the phenomenon of the movie superstar. Switch onto the role reality TV has played in the extension of screen celebrity. Ask questions about the omnipresence of fame.

Put the history of cinema up in lights and analyse the results. View generic, technological and gendered perspectives. Note the building blocks that go into narrative construction. Think about film in terms of political and social concerns.

Transfer ideas from your head onto the written page. Consider character motivations as you experiment with their story arcs and relationships. See how scripts use structure, genre, foreshadowing and motifs to create and fuel drama.

Immerse yourself in stories from Indigenous writers and filmmakers. Thumb through a history of Aboriginal literature. Research theatre and visual art. Measure how Indigenous storytelling has managed to aid the construction of cultural identity.