Published on: 23 February 2021



Students studying Media Production and Analysis attended a Screen Arts conference at Curtin University last week. During the conference, students and teachers participated in a range of workshops that explore contemporary screen production and theory, including modules that involve the creation of work in Curtin’s large on-campus multi-cam television studio and high definition control room environment.

Over the course of the day the students participated in three separate modules designed to give them a comprehensive understanding of the practical skills required in the media industry.

“Being able make a short live-to-air segment using Curtin’s high definition cameras in their control room gave us a great experience of what it is like to work in a real-world TV production environment.”

The module provides an introduction to the history and practice of experimental film and video art forms, creating camera-less films, using celluloid film materials. Students experiment with composition and application of avant-garde approaches to explore, interrogate and challenge mainstream cinematic conventions.

Digital Arts and Visual Arts teacher Mr Mark Seman commented on the conference “The Screen Arts conference is a wonderful opportunity for Year 11 and 12 Media Production and Analysis students to come together and venture to a tertiary environment in order to use start-of-the-art facilities, taught by experts in the field. We learned how formalism can be used to analyse films, all the behind-the-scenes mechanisms of broadcast media and how to make a film without a camera: scratching and taping materials onto actual celluloid. Students engaged willingly, gathering a taste for media beyond the classroom. No doubt they will channel their energy and knowledge from the day into their work in 2021.”