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Assessing graduate screen production outputs in nineteen Australian films schools

Project Information

Year Funded:
2008
Grant (ex GST):
$219,264
Project Status:
Ongoing
Program:
Priority Projects
Project Keywords:
ASPERA, ASPRI, Berkley, CILECT, Film schools, Lang, Leahy, NASS, Oughton, Screen production, VCA
Project Discipline:
Creative and Performing Arts

Institutions

  • Murdoch University (Lead)
  • Flinders University
  • Griffith University
  • RMIT University
  • University of Technology, Sydney
  • The University of Melbourne (VCA Film & TV School)

Project Leader

  1. Associate Professor Josko Petkovic
    Murdoch University
    J [dot] Petkovic [at] murdoch [dot] edu [dot] au

Project Outcome

This project will formally define, test, validate and regulate academic standards, assessment and reporting practices for graduating film school students, who at the moment have only an informal assessment regime not recognized by DEEWR. This outcome will potentially bring visibility to around 6 per cent of the total university population, with wide-reaching consequences.

Project Methodology

Australian Screen Production Education & Research Association (ASPERA), the peak body of all Australian film schools, has devised a system of assessing creative works using an integrated network of State and National Peer Review Committees. This system has never been tested before. The aim of this project is to test this assessment system on 19 ASPERA film schools while liaising with DEEWR and CILECT (the International Association Of Film and Television Schools). A sample of three Honours productions completed in the last six years from each ASPERA member institution will be used as test material.
A team from Murdoch University, VCA, UTS, Griffith University, RMIT and Flinders University will coordinate the trial process with the ASPERA member institutions in each state. The need for this test and its analysis will be addressed by two special ASPERA conferences to which DEEWR and other national and international representatives will be invited. The project recommendations and report will be disseminated nationally and internationally.

The information on this project's page was correct at the time of funding. Changes may have occurred since.

The information on this project's page was updated 24 March, 2009.

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