2QUT x Essential Screen Skills - Experience Program 2026
On Wednesday 17th June year 10 & 11 Film students attended the QUT Essential Screen Skills Experience program. As our school is a Screen and Media Gateway School students were able to have hands-on experience with cutting-edge technology and facilities, like the Virtual Production studio, LED walls, and multicamera studios to demonstrate QUT's engagement with industry-relevant, practical education.
The program helped students envision potential careers – and study pathways - in various creative, screen and media roles, from content creation to technical roles like performance, production design and motion capture.
In the first session – Working in a TV studio, students were hands-on with broadcast cameras and vision switching in a multicamera studio. They each participated in roles behind the scenes of a news broadcast and live television program. They also took on the role of a camera operator or vision switcher, directed the news program and controlled the teleprompter.
The second session was in QUT's state-of-the-art Virtual Production studio. In this hands-on workshop, students helped create stunning in-camera visual effects that merged live performance with digital environments in real-time. They performed on camera and worked behind the scenes, filming and applying the visual effects.
Our third session was Production design, here they explored how production designers and scenic artists create worlds for film, TV and other forms of screen entertainment. In this workshop, students experimented with creating their own 3D designs for film, virtual production and television shows all while learning some key production design concepts.
Our last workshop of the day was Animation, through a hands-on, frame‑by‑frame stop‑motion process, students immersed themselves in animation by using their own bodies as animated armatures. Working collaboratively, they explored stop‑motion technique in which actors are animated one frame at a time to create illusionistic, character‑driven sequences. Students also incorporated a range of props including 3D‑printed components, and malleable plasticine. These tools enabled expressive transformations and dynamic visual storytelling, all while fostering creativity, experimentation, and teamwork.
We are a Screen and Media Gateway to Industry School. Essential Screen Skills delivers the Screen and Media Gateway to Industry Schools program which is proudly supported and funded by the Queensland Government and Essential Crew