UC Digital Screen

What a night at the 2025 Special Olympics Opening Ceremony in Ōtautahi! 🔥

So proud of our students whose montage lit up the stadium, and our crew capturing the action live throughout the night.

And we’re not done yet, our teams are still out filming across the Games! 🎥✨

Last Thursday we held our first-ever Digital Screen Student Showcase 🎬
 
We’re so proud of the incredible work our students produced, from short films to animation, game art, and game development displays. Their creativity and storytelling talent lit up the Jack Mann auditorium.
 
It was such a special evening sharing their mahi with friends and whānau. Huge mihi to all the students who showcased their projects, you absolutely smashed it! 💛🙌

Explore the future of creativity with our Summer School courses! ☀️
 
From digital storytelling and screen design to media production and sound. Level up your creative skills and gain hands-on experience in UC’s cutting-edge digital spaces. 🎥

🗓️ Courses start November 2025 & January 2026

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!

Walking into term 4 like… 🎥🎞️🎙️




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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! 👋🏼

Digital Screen Team ✌️ 🎬🎙️🎥🎮

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] 🙂

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] 🙂 #ucdigitalscreen #ucnz #creativetechnogy #film #game #animation #sound #careers #stopmotion #storytelling #study #students #events #christchurch