UndergraduateCommunications & Media
Diploma of Screen and Media
Melbourne Polytechnic, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
About this program
Learn practical and technical make-up skills:
Melbourne Polytechnic’s Diploma of Screen and Media CUA51020 (Specialist Make-up Services) gets you ready to join the screen and media industry as a make-up professional. This practical and hands-on course will teach you about the transformative powers of prosthetics, specialist make-up effects and wigs.
This Diploma of Screen and Media CUA51020 (Specialist Make-up Services) will teach you how to design, interpret technical briefs, apply and remove make-up and wigs for a range of different genres within the Industry. Melbourne Polytechnic’s facilities will allow you to experience industry practices, with access to purpose-built classrooms with individual student workstations and our dedicated prosthetics lab and the David Williamson theatre on campus. You will also collaborate with outside student groups that are producing theatre, film, and television productions, valuable opportunities created for you by educators. Melbourne Polytechnic’s industry partnerships will provide you with real-world opportunities to network with future employers.
Cost & duration
English test scores
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Course structure
15 terms of coursework
- BSBCRT413- Collaborate in creative processes
- BSBPMG430- Undertake project work
- CUAACD511- Make moulds and casts
- CUADES412- Interpret and respond to a design brief
- CUADES413- Develop and extend design skills and practice
- CUAIND412- Provide freelance services
- CUAIND512- Enhance professional practice using creative arts industry knowledge
- CUAMUP411- Design
- apply and remove make-up
- CUAMUP412- Maintain make-up and hair continuity
- CUAMUP413- Style hair for productions
- CUAMUP414- Style wigs and hairpieces for productions
- CUAMUP512- Design and apply specialised make-up
- CUAPPR411- Realise a creative project
- CUAPPR515- Establish and maintain safe creative practice
- CUASFX411- Create special effects items
Admissions
Requirements apply through VTAC or directly to Melbourne Polytechnic interview and folio presentation required To assess applicants meet Entry Requirements - It is required that candidates undergo an interview before offer of a place can be made and submit: Resume or CV of work and study experience A Written Statement with the reasons for wanting to undertake course Photograph of yourself, head and shoulders only Make-up folio presentation The interview is conducted on the Prahran campus. In the interview you will be asked to present a folio of work. This could include any of the following: makeup you may have designed or applied in productions through school, self-taught or as part of previous work employment examples of application of make-up on yourself or others design ideas images of hair and make-up styling that inspire you. These may come from magazines, or from film or stage performances This folio can be shown digitally in the interview or as a word document or art journal. The folio is used as a talking point for the interview. Our teachers understand that some applicants may have no prior make-up design skills, so images of make-up and hair designs that inspire you are just as relevant. As part of the enrolment process, you will be required to attend a pre-training review with an Enrolment Centre Advisor. In your pre-training review, you and your Enrolment Centre Advisor will discuss: Your literacy, numeracy and digital literacy capability. This may be established through an assessment and/or other evidence provided during the enrolment process. Academic: Australian Year 12 equivalency English: Academic IELTS 6.0 overall, Pearson PTE Academic 50 overall, or Melbourne Polytechnic recognised equivalency. Other: An interview is required before an offer can be processed. To assess applicants meet Entry Requirements - It is required that candidates undergo an interview before offer of a place can be made and submit: Resume or CV of work and study experience. A Written Statement with the reasons for wanting to undertake course. Photograph of themselves, head and shoulders only. A Folio of photographs, or drawings, or examples of application of make-up on themselves or others, design ideas and images of hair and make-up styling that inspire. Those skills and knowledge may have been acquired through personal or work experience, or through formal study at secondary or tertiary level.
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