JMC Academy’s Master of Creative Industries (MCI) puts you in the driver's seat! The unique course will enable you to build on your innovative drive and creative practice by working with you to develop a concept or project that can be taken into the commercial domain upon graduation.
Tailored to individually help you realise your career outcomes, we’ll connect you with hand-picked, specialised mentors to ensure your profile and work - once developed, becomes known to industry. A multidisciplinary, highly collaborative program, this course will give you the freedom and flexibility to explore, innovate, conceptualise, develop and produce a creative project or practice.
Your project could be anything from creating a short film, recording an EP or album, building a VR experience, producing a film score, animating a music video, launching a music label to choreographing a dance piece. The project is whatever you desire to make it.
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Australia’s creative sector is rapidly emerging as a progressive and powerful economic force, contributing over $30 billion annually to the economy and employing over 100,000 people. It is required to continually change, innovate and disrupt to sustain itself and respond to rapidly changing consumer demands. It needs leaders, change-makers and visionaries like you.
JMC’s Master of Creative Industries delivers a critical understanding of this booming industry. Focused on real-world production standards, JMC's MCI will give you the freedom to explore, create and apply your skills while developing your own concept into commercial reality. It will build your creative network, strengthen your critical thinking and extend your practice.
COURSE DURATION
Mindful of your work and general life commitments, the Masters of Creative Industries is available over 8 trimesters part-time or 4 trimesters full-time. For those who are unable to complete the Masters, a Graduate Diploma is an available exit point after the successful completion of 2 trimesters.
International students may complete the program in 1.5 or 2 years. The program must be completed full-time in order to satisy student visa conditions.
ENTRY REQUIREMENTS
Post-graduate students are selected to study at JMC on the basis of:
- A completed recognised Bachelor degree (or higher) in a * relevant field of study
- Interview with Head of MCI
- Relevant work experience in the creative industries field
- Project concept or proposal and portfolio of sample work encouraged.
A relevant field of study includes: music and sound production, arts management, film + television, music and related studies, entertainment, graphic and design studies, visual arts, interactive + visual design, animation and game design, creative writing, new media, communication, and media studies.
COURSE GUIDE
JMC’s Master of Creative Industries integrates practical, creative and entrepreneurial units, designed to develop your creative skills to industry expectations and standards.
When you graduate, you will have an innate knowledge of the creative industries sector, and a highly applicable skill set, including but not limited to:
- In-depth knowledge of the creative industries, specifically within your field of specialisation
- The ability to successfully realise value in the creative economy
- The principles of good research and the gathering and analysis of reliable data
- Familiarity with the innovators, innovations and recent developments within and from the creative industries, specifically in your field of specialisation
- The key principles of project design and management, as well as recent developments in business models within the sector
- Technical and communication skills to analyse and evaluate the impact of technological change on the relationship between creativity and society, and, where possible, the ability to implement those changes in the design of your own project
- Cognitive, creative and technical skills to investigate, critically analyse and synthesise trends in consumer tastes and consumption, technical contemporary best practice and your own production project
- The cognitive, technical and creative skills to evaluate at an abstract level what the a final project might look like – based on concept development demos and an extrapolation from those demos
- An understanding of the business management principles required to successfully conduct your business interest within the creative industries, and specifically within your field of specialisation
CAREERS IN THE INDUSTRY
The Master of Creative Industries will allow graduates to work across the board in senior creative, leadership and self-employed positions.
The sky's the limit! Completion of the MCI will open opportunities and areas of employment or self-employment you may not have previously considered. At a minimum opportunities can include:
- Independent Film and Television Producer, Director and/or Script-Writer
- Radio Producer/ Manager
- Cross-Platform Content Creator/Director
- Project Manager
- Entrepreneur
- Head of Creative
- Creative Director
- Online Publisher/Manager
- Music Producer/ Composer
- Visusal Designer/Design Supervisor
- Writer/Writing Supervisor/Editor
INTAKE DATES
JMC Academy's diploma, bachelor and masters intake dates are:
- February
- June
- September
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