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SAE has implemented a remote flexible learning option for current and future students. The range of tools developed by SAE will not only allow students to collaborate online but also gain experience in remote working practices widely used within the creative industries.

• Develop your knowledge and skills on industry-standard camera technologies including 4K Red cameras, Canon C300s, and more.
• Work collaboratively with artists, designers, web, mobile and games developers, animators, and audio specialists.
• Create productions under real-world conditions.
• Learn high-level cinematography and visual effects skills using the same equipment, software, and processes employed by industry practitioners.
• Build skills in industry-standard software including DaVinci Resolve colour grading software, Adobe Premiere Pro editing software, Adobe After Effects, and Photoshop standard screen graphics applications.
• Experience a course designed in collaboration with industry partners and develop skills that the film industry wants.
• Develop high-level skills in your craft before you graduate: be industry-ready. 

ASSOCIATE DEGREE OF FILM

The Associate Degree of Film program is broken up into discrete stages, each designed to promote different skills.

Stage I – Foundational Skills Development
In Stage I, students will undertake a number of foundational modules which will give students the essential technical skills and knowledge not only relevant to the chosen discipline area, but also give students the skills required to collaborate with other creative media students and professionals in later stages of the Film course. Students will learn the foundational principles of screenwriting, cinematography, and editing and will also undertake deliberate practice and weekly rituals including reflective journaling that will assist students in identifying the skills, knowledge and behaviours required to develop their creative media practice throughout their studies.

Stage 1 has one Studio module:

1. Film Studio 1

Students will have the opportunity to develop a project from early ideation through to industry-standard screen production. The project introduces students to procedures and protocols of screen production as well as further developing students' skills in cinematography, lighting, and sound. Students will also be introduced to the pathway a screen production takes through the post-production stage to final delivery.

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Stage II – Interdisciplinary Projects, Media and Cultural Studies

In Stage II we show students how their work contributes to and interacts with broader culture and media practice through common modules and studio modules. This knowledge will enable students to work with a variety of other disciplines and artists and expand their potential on the global stage. Within Stage II, students will work closely with facilitators to identify key learning outcomes needed to complete modules. Deliberate and reflective practice assist students through their studio modules, playing an active reflection role throughout the learning journey. Student projects within Stage II are reflective of real-world scenarios, containing real-world dilemmas - societal issues that require solutions; authentic audiences -simulating professional practice and constraints- understanding how a range of constraints can impact projects within professional practice.

Students complete a number of real-world projects with students not only in their own discipline but also in all other SAE disciplines. At the end of each studio module, facilitators will arrange exhibitions either internal or public-facing for students to showcase work. 

Stage II has two studio modules:

1. Film Studio 2

Students will have the opportunity to develop a project from early ideation through to industry-standard screen production. The project introduces students to procedures and protocols of screen production as well as further developing students' skills in cinematography, lighting, and sound. Students will also be introduced to the pathway a screen production takes through the post-production stage to final delivery.

2. Film Studio 3

In this studio module, students will have been assigned to a project team, which is led by a Facilitator. In collaboration with peers, students will work towards developing a number of projects within a real-life on-set environment. During this process, a Facilitator will act as your project manager, producer, mentor, and colleague.

Stage III

Stage III of the Bachelor of Film is designed to prepare students for entry-level professional industry roles and to undertake postgraduate studies. Stage III develops a student's capacity to work with the collaborative and geographically diverse world of creative media practice.

To prepare students for this, SAE project supervisors and facilitators work with Stage III students to develop sophisticated, collaborative creative media projects which meet the professional standards of the industry. These final projects are done in collaboration with all other SAE disciplines, either on campus or remotely, enabling students to pursue their most ambitious and creative portfolio pieces yet.

To support this, students in Stage III learn advanced discipline-specific skills and knowledge, experience remote, collaborative practice with their peers across the SAE campus network, broaden their skills and knowledge through studying elective modules in other disciplines, or in creative media business and entrepreneurship and finally, gain industry feedback on their transferable skills through the finalisation of SAE’s creative industries Work Integrated Learning Program.

Stage III is NOT included in the Associate Degree.