2025 Master of Arts Screen: Sound Design – Second Round Applications Now Open

The Australian Film Television and Radio School has opened a second round of applications for domestic applicants for the 2025 Master of Arts Screen: Sound Design.

This transformative program is designed to empower future creative storytellers, through hands-on, specialist learning and collaboration, and prepare them for the next stage of their career as a sound practitioner.

Second round applications close Tuesday, 5 November.

Is the Master of Arts Screen: Sound Design right for you?

WHY DO THIS COURSE

In this course, you will develop the skills required for a career in aural storytelling. Screen sound technologies are continually changing. Through intensive workshops, you will acquire the knowledge you need to deal with the creative and economic challenges you will face in the screen sound industry.

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT

Industry practitioners will contribute to the coursework program, providing insights into their practice, and you will collaborate with your Master of Arts Screen colleagues in small cross-disciplinary groups.

In the second year, you will work on a major project and a strategically aligned research project. During the course, there will be an opportunity for a professional placement, which aims to support your transition into the industry upon graduation.

Overall, the course will allow you to consider who you are as a creative practitioner with an adaptable skillset. Learning to analyse your process through the development of a practice-based research project, you will understand how your practice is informed by the past, and how it engages with contemporary screen culture and emerging trends and technologies.

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