Postgraduate Diploma in Screen Arts

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The Postgraduate Diploma in Screen Arts graduates will demonstrate attributes of Creativity - Toi, Virtuosity - Mohio, Understanding - Matauranga and Connectedness - Whanaungatanga and will be able to: Display an ability to engage with the richness and variety of different views within the screen sector, acknowledging their contribution to the cultural identity of Aotearoa New Zealand. Demonstrate a broad, critical understanding of the discourse, professional practices and production processes and their multiple global contexts. Demonstrate understanding of the relationship between production and audiences, clients, markets, users, consumers, participants and citizens. Be intellectually curious and adaptable, willing to embrace new ideas and accommodate risk and uncertainty. Have clear goals for the continuation of intellectual and/or professional development. Apply exploratory and transformative thinking to generate ideas, proposals, creative works and arguments in response to project demands. Critically reflect on and evaluate their own work and the work of other practitioners and scholars. Initiate and contribute to innovative developments in the screen sector through creative practice based research. Demonstrate critically informed competency in the management and operation of production technologies, procedures and processes. Combine technical excellence with intellectual and conceptual rigour in order to advance creative processes in all forms of production. Skilfully utilise analytical, evaluative and synthesising iterative processes in order to transform ideas into production outcomes.

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