Advanced Diploma of Professional Screenwriting

The Advanced Diploma of Professional Screenwriting provides specialist training in writing for film, television and digital media.

This industry-focussed program encourages you to develop your own creative strengths as a screenwriter and script editor, while developing your awareness and knowledge of the professional context in which you will be working.

This includes learning about the make-up of local and international industries, professional practice, entry-points into the industry and career management.

The program aims to maximise your opportunity for employment by providing you with broad, transferable screenwriting and editing skills and with specialised knowledge in your specific areas of interest.

As a student in this program you are trained to write across a range of genres and for different audiences.

Areas of specialisation include feature film, documentary, television drama, television comedy, children’s television and interactive online drama

Entrance requirements: There are no minimum academic requirements.

Prerequisites: None.

Selection tasks: All applicants must complete and submit the Screenwriting pre-selection kit. Some applicants may be required to be interviewed. Some applicants will be selected based on their pre-selection kit and will not be required to attend an interview.

Please refer to the VTAC guide and/or RMIT website for additional information and details.

This nationally recognised vocational education and training (VET) qualification is competency-based.

This means that it is designed to enable you to develop the practical skills and knowledge (competency) needed to perform the duties and tasks in the job you are training for. Assessment in a competency-based program is about being able to demonstrate that you have developed these practical skills and areas of knowledge, and that you can perform at the standard required in the job. This could involve showing an assessor how you plan and carry out tasks, and explaining to the assessor how you know what you are doing. It could also involve completing a project and presenting a report on the process and outcomes. If you are working, your work supervisor may provide the assessor with a report on your competency.

If you have already developed areas of skill and knowledge included in this program (e.g. through prior paid or voluntary work experience), you can be assessed and have these skills and knowledge formally recognised at any point during the program. There is information on the RMIT website about how to apply for Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) – refer to http://www.rmit.edu.au/students/enrolment/credit/tafe