AFTRS

The AFTRS Research Program supports excellence in creative, business and pedagogical practices within the Australian screen arts and broadcasting community. It contributes to the school's ongoing mission to be a leader in screen arts education, creative exploration and the dissemination of business knowledge. The AFTRS Research Strategy strengthens the inter-relationship between teaching and research in creativity and creative practice in screen arts and broadcasting as a defining characteristic of our institution.

 

The AFTRS Research Program

• Strives consistently to achieve practical outcomes for the screen arts and broadcast industries.
• Enriches, and is enriched by, the AFTRS teaching program.
• Is directly connected with, and informed by, screen arts and broadcast industries personnel and practices.
• Reports research outcomes directly to screen arts and broadcast industries practitioners and organisations, as well as to academia and government.

 

AFTRS determines its commitment to research projects according to these criteria:

• Contribution to screen arts and broadcast education
• Contribution to screen arts and broadcast industry development.
• Contribution to policy and decision-making processes in the screen arts and broadcast   industries.
• Evidence of quality research design.

 

Research Strand Aims

1. Screen arts and broadcast education

• To develop improved methods for teaching creativity and screen arts and broadcast production, including the interweaving of theory and practice
• To develop effective ways of using screen arts and broadcast as educational tools

 

2. Business sustainability

• To generate new knowledge about effective business processes and practices in the screen arts and broadcast industries
• To unearth and disseminate tacit business knowledge held within the screen arts and broadcast industries

 

3. Production processes

• To draw upon tacit industry knowledge and targeted academic research in order to develop effective and efficient production practices in the screen arts and broadcast industries
• To explore the creative possibilities offered by new methodologies in performance, production and postproduction in the screen arts and broadcast industries

 

4. Creative screen and broadcast content in the digital era

• To explore methodologies for generating and developing creative ideas
• To explore the storytelling possibilities offered by new digital formats
• To help develop new ways of engaging with audiences and new avenues for the online distribution and commercialisation of screen and broadcast content.

Research Concentrations at AFTRS

AFTRS has established the following research concentrations of academic staff involved in teaching including Screen Business; Screen Culture; and Creative Practices/Creative Pedagogies; and Screen Design

 

Screen Business

The Screen Business group conducts practical research to improve business knowledge and know-how in the sector and to inform their courses in the disciplines of screen producing and screen business. They disseminate knowledge through their award courses (Graduate Certificates and Graduate Diplomas in Producing and Screen Business and in 2012 a new Master of Screen Arts & Business will be offered), their website and online via 'The Knowledge', a series of interviews with leading practitioners.

 

Screen Culture

The Screen Culture Research group aims to expand and influence discussion of screen culture; represent the thinking going on in and around the AFTRS Screen Studies department; make provocations to catalyse action; and distribute new knowledge to industry through their blog and their award courses (Graduate Certificate in Screen Culture and as integrated in various Screen Studies modules in all award courses at AFTRS).

 

Creative Practices & Creative Teaching

The Creative Practices/ Creative Teaching group formed in June 2011 is a research concentration or community of inquiry that aims to formalize the generation and dissemination of new knowledge in relation to 'practice-based research'. Activities of the Creative Practices/Creative Teaching research concentration include participation in weekly Teaching Creative Practices Seminars in which presenters make explicit the connections between their creative practices and their creative pedagogies, that is, between their own practice and their teaching. This group grew out of the activities of the Graduate Certificate in Teaching Creative Practice delivered successfully to 5 staff at AFTRS in 2010.

 

Screen Design

The Screen Design group is a community where an exchange of ideas surrounding Production Design, Costume Design and all related areas of screen projects is centred.  Through the Screen Design blog and the award course - the Graduate Diploma in Production Design, research and discussions are instigated around current issues and practice.  The blog is a platform for distilling information through research lists, links to relevant sites, and links to information on production designers, costume designers and the industry.  It is a place where information about new productions, new approaches to production design and ideas on design can flourish.

 

Related Links:

 

MA Research Students and Projects

LUM:NA: Australian Journal of Screen Arts and Business

Teaching Staff

 

updated 4 August 2011

 

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