Module 1: The World of Television—The TV Scene
Topic 1: Define a range of terms relating to the TV industry
Topic 2: Understand the scale of the TV industry in Australia: its history, and some current programming issues and future challenges
Topic 3: Demonstrate an awareness of diverse roles available in television at an entry level
Topic 4: Explain how the industry is changing with the advent of new technologies

Module 2: Selling the Dream—The Image Makers
Topic 1: Differentiate between audiences of various TV programs
Topic 2: Understand a range of terms used to describe the current TV market
Topic 3: Explore a range of market research techniques used to profile Australian TV audiences
Topic 4: Use available market research data to devise a strategy for new TV program success
Topic 5: Understand how external factors affect the production of TV in Australia
Topic 6: Analyse consumer opinions and understand how the market is fragmented
Topic 7: Understand how meeting the needs of various TV markets impacts on decision making at all levels of production

Module 3: Behind the Scenes—Breaking into the Industry
Topic 1: Define various employment structures within a typical TV production including a hierarchy of staff titles and key roles
Topic 2: Describe a range of relevant industry training programs and explore options relevant to your vocational preference
Topic 3: Design a long-term career path within the TV industry using the latest educational and vocational tools
Topic 4: Identify a range of potential workplace hazards specific to the TV business and understand how best to minimise risk
Topic 5: Demonstrate an understanding of current Occupational Health and Safety legislation affecting the TV industry

Module 4: Pre-Production
Topic 1: Translate an original idea into a selling document for presentation to a network or production company
Topic 2: Understand how to set up a production office including hiring equipment and staff
Topic 3: Describe the issues involved in casting and crewing a TV program, as well as legal rights and moral obligations of contracts
Topic 4: Demonstrate an awareness of TV budgets, their lay out and various line items including contingency
Topic 5: Analyse the issues involved in complex TV production schedules
Topic 6: Evaluate the relative merits of a range of different filming locations, both their advantages and drawbacks

Module 5: Media Research
Topic 1: Understand how a wide range of sources provide background information for TV projects
Topic 2: Demonstrate ways to filter information so that it is story specific
Topic 3: Describe ‘best practice’ when approaching sources of information with regard to ethical boundaries
Topic 4: Analyse a range of listening skills and how to angle your questions to elicit relevant information
Topic 5: Evaluate which visual devices or methods of representation are needed to tell the story in filmic terms
Topic 6: Investigate dramatic structure and assess which elements will be needed to realise the story in dramatic terms

Module 6: Writing For Television
Topic 1: Describe a range of TV program genres
Topic 2: Understand various terms used in the production of scripts for TV
Topic 3: Demonstrate an ability to adapt research briefs to final scripts for various programs
Topic 4: Analyse the story structure of a live studio interview
Topic 5: Evaluate dramatic elements of storytelling across various genres, including documentary and drama
Topic 6: Investigate ways to develop character and location as part of a program treatment

Module 7. Television Camera and Filming
Topic 1: Understand various technical terms used in relation to visualising a project for TV
Topic 2: Understand principles of TV transmission including new technologies
Topic 3: Translate a shooting script into a simple storyboard
Topic 4: Analyse best practises for camera operation for electronic news gathering (ENG) in the field and in a multi-camera studio
Topic 5: Assess the duties performed by the director and various crew members in a studio setting
Topic 6: Evaluate the best approach to lighting a range of TV interview set-ups

Module 8. Television Sound Recording
Topic 1: Understand what sound is and how it is measured
Topic 2: Understand various technical terms used in relation to recording and mixing audio for TV
Topic 3: Understand principles of location sound recording and assess the right microphone for a specific task
Topic 4: Investigate a range of tools and systems used in sound recording and mixing
Topic 5: Assess ways to avoid common pitfalls when recording sound on location
Topic 6: Explore options for voice over recording and audio post production for various TV genres

Module 9: Writing the Screenplay
Topic 1: Analyse the role of a script in film and TV production
Topic 2: Identify elements common to all screenwriting
Topic 3: Identify techniques used to develop characterisation
Topic 4: Identify a range of filmic devices
Topic 5: Identify the stages typically followed in the development of a film or TV script
Topic 6: Develop a script to treatment stage

Module 10: Scriptwriting for the Screen 1
Topic 1: Identify markets for screenplays for a range of formats
Topic 2: Develop a treatment and narrative
Topic 3: Write the script

Module 11: Screenwriting for Film, Television and Video
Topic 1: Conduct research for a longer screenwriting project
Topic 2: Identify markets for screenplays for a range of formats
Topic 3: Identify devices relevant to feature film and documentary or equivalent writing
Topic 4: Write an initial treatment and synopsis for an extended fiction/nonfiction screenplay

Module 12: Scriptwriting for the Screen 2
Topic 1: Develop narrative
Topic 2: Write an initial treatment
Topic 3: Write the script

Module 13. Television Producing
Topic 1: Understand what a typical TV producer does
Topic 2: Understand how to raise funding for a new TV project
Topic 3: Analyse the progression of a story through various phases of the production process
Topic 4: Understand the responsibilities of a TV producer in relation to cast and crew
Topic 5: Evaluate the best approach to managing a team
Topic 6: Assess the best way to deliver a program on time and on budget

Module 14. Television Presenting Skills
Topic 1: Understand how to present yourself on camera across various genres
Topic 2: Understand what networks and production companies are looking for
Topic 3: Understand and know how to interpret key instructions given to presenters and actors in the field and the studio
Topic 4: Identify drama and reality show audition opportunities and know how to find an agent
Topic 5: Assess ways to get on-camera exposure and how to turn this into a showreel
Topic 6: Evaluate opportunities for further study and industry training in your performance area of interest

Module 15. Digital TV
Topic 1: Understand the basics of producing content for a website aligned with a network, production company or TV program
Topic 2: Understand terms and tools commonly used by web producers
Topic 3: Analyse the progression of a TV storyline into related multi-media and assess the different story telling skills required for web production
Topic 4: Understand how websites complement TV programs by offering forums for debate and discussion
Topic 5: Evaluate the best way to manage sensitive content that may be raised on a website, and the legal implications involved
Topic 6: Assess ways to avoid negative comments on websites that may offend cast crew and contestants

Module 16. Launching a TV Show
Topic 1: Understand the basics of both linear and non-linear editing for TV
Topic 2: Understand terms and tools commonly used by TV editors
Topic 3: Analyse the progression of a TV program through various phases of postproduction, and the various roles associated with TV post-production
Topic 4: Understand how production companies and networks promote TV programs to viewers
Topic 5: Evaluate the best way to raise the public profile of a new program
Topic 6: Assess ways to avoid negative publicity by protecting the image and reputation of stars and key cast and crew

Module 17. TV Genres: Reality TV, Lifestyle, Current Affairs, Drama
Topic 1: Define specific areas or genres within Australian TV production
Topic 2: Understand how those genres differ and how each requires specific skills and knowledge
Topic 3: Explain the primary role and powers of a range of Australian authorities, industry groups and funding bodies related to the TV industry in Australia
Topic 4: Analyse how you best fit into those genres, where you would likely find employment and how to approach production bodies
Topic 5: Demonstrate an awareness of diverse roles within these genres, and understand the skills required at various levels
Topic 6: Explain how all of the above is changing as a result of new technologies and changes to broadcast laws and methods