UC Digital Screen

UC Digital Screen is proud to have its new Green Screen and Virtual Production sound stages complete. Empowering students to learn a new platform of storytelling for the Digital Screen!

Watch the installation of our Virtual Production Set come to life! UC Digital Screen is proud to have its new Green Screen and Virtual Production sound stages complete. Empowering students to learn a new platform of storytel...

Level up and create interactive digital games from scratch! 🎮🚀🕹️👾

Study Game Development with UC’s Bachelor of Digital Screen with Honours and build immersive worlds 🌎 and characters, using industry standard software and technology!

Learn how to use game development tools such as Unity and Unreal, develop your own games from your second year and create your own projects using our AR/VR equipment, gaming consoles and motion capture suites!

From applying game development skills for phones through to virtual production, our experienced gaming lecturers and technicians will teach you how to create entertaining, educational and meaningful gaming experiences!

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Our Digital Screen team were busy bees last week across campus, hosting tours for staff, careers advisers and future students here at the University of Canterbury! 🐝

Rongo o te Wā was a successful day with Careers Advisers joining us from across the country for a tour of our Digital Screen facilities, exploring the Sound Hub, Editing suites, Post-Production studios, Green Screen stage and Virtual Production set!

Open Day was an absolute buzz, with our info tent packed with hundreds of enquiries from enthusiastic future students, an info session lead by our Executive Dean of Arts, Kevin Watson, and facility tours happening throughout the day! 📽🎮

A massive thank you to our wonderful team for all they do and the energy they bring to each event and tour, that's a wrap! 🎬

Are you joining us for Open Day? Check out the info below!👇🏻

There are a few ways you can connect with our Digital Screen team, and we’ll be scattered across the Ilam and Dovedale campus’s to help you with any questions you have! 🙋🏾

📍We will have a table at the info tent stalls, just look for the ‘Digital Screen’ banner, and you’ll find us!

📍Our Executive Dean will be giving a presentation about the Bachelor of Digital Screen with Honours degree at 12.00pm in the A1 lecture theatre. Make sure to register! 🎫

📍You can explore the Digital Screen facilities on the Dovedale campus anytime between 12.00pm - 3.00pm. Grab a map from the info tent, and follow the orange flags! 🚩 (approx 10 minute walk)

📍After the Digital Screen info presentation, you’ll be able to jump on the bus 🚌 at 1.00pm to Dovedale Campus if you wish, the bus will return to Ilam Campus at 2.00pm. This is optional, not compulsory. (No need to book for this)

📍Facilities include our Green Screen sound stage, Edit suites, Virtual Production sound stage, Recording studios, Post production labs and more!

If you have any questions, just pop us a message, otherwise, we look forward to meeting you and welcoming you to campus! 👋🏼

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Turn up and tune in to level up your skills in audio through the power of sound! 🔊

Our Screen Sound major teaches you how to create sound effects, character voices and source digital music for video games as well as film! 🎞️

Sound is a core element for a range of media channels, whether it be a documentary, tv, video game or creating digital music, sound is what brings the screen to life and builds the emotion behind the screen to give the audience an immersive experience.

Studying Screen Sound at the University of Canterbury will give you hands on learning experience in recording audio, post-production process and techniques for sound mixing.

Learn in our specialised post-production facilities where audio content is edited, mixed, and processed for final distribution with 5.1 surround sound!

From using industry standard software to turning the sound up LOUD, our Screen Sound Lecturers will teach you how to mix, create and capture sound every step of the way for the digital screen!

Our Cinematic Arts and Screenwriting students have combined to learn from Writer, Director and UC Lecturer, Gillian Ashurst!

These drama workshops are tailored for students who will be working with actors in the future, learning how to connect with actors on set and how to encourage actors to connect with each other.

How good does our Green Screen Sound Stage look, filled with enthusiastic and creative students! 📽

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And that’s a wrap on our Bachelor of Digital Screen Information Evening for 2024! 🎬

Thank you to everyone who came to campus to hear what the UC Digital Screen programme and degree offers. And a special mention to our guest speakers Richard and Benjamin who shared their expertise and insights from the screen industry!

If you have any further questions, you can email us at, [email protected] 🙂

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Combine art, design and imagination with cinematic scenes for the digital screen! ✍️👾🚀

Studying our major in Animation will teach you how to create and breathe life into imaginary worlds and characters! 🏂🤸‍♂️

Find your passion within an animation pipeline, be it story boarding, 2D, 3D modelling, rendering or visual effects! 🪐

Design and draw your vision and imaginary worlds using our industry standard tools and software in our brand new facilities. Including our Art studio, Digital Production suite, Motion Capture lab, and Stop Motion studio! 🖥️🖱️🖲️

From the principles of animation to working on real-world projects and outputs, our experienced Animation lecturers will lead you through each stage of the process from creation to post-production! 🎥

And action! 🎬 There's been a lot happening here at the University of Canterbury on the Dovedale Campus, and we're delighted to see and share that our new Virtual Production set has arrived and looks incredible in one of our newly refurbished Jack Mann sound stages! 📽

A handful of our second-year students joined us for a tour and demo of the technology, who were full of questions and excitement. The very best is yet to come for these future storytellers!

A special mention and thank you to the UC Kōawa team and our amazing technicians for all their hard work getting this set up in one piece (there were many pieces), and to the wider team who worked behind the scenes to bring this technology to life, we appreciate you! 👏

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From writing scripts to screen production, share your passion for storytelling with the world! 🌎✍️📕

Our Screenwriting major gives students invaluable insight into the unique story writing journey! Our writers aren’t just tucked away in a quiet room writing (Well, sometimes they are). But you’ll also find them pitching their scripts as potential projects to be made, and have the opportunity to join a crew during the production phase! 🎥

Learn story ideation, and how to develop ideas from simple concepts to unique story worlds. Explore different ways of telling a story for various platforms, including feature film, TV, web series, short films and games! 📺 🎮

Screenwriting is both creative and practical, as we work with words and images, and learn how to best communicate and express our ideas and how to be a valuable part of a ‘writer’s table’!

From writing your own short scripts and screenplays, to creating characters and tying elements of a story together, our Screenwriting Lecturers will help you bring your stories to life! 📕🎞️🎮✍️