Visual Effects training at Post Graduate level

David Price, Senior Lecturer (BFTV1 & Visual Effects), Post Production Coordinator, Film and Television, VCA

I would like to show a 90 second spot (from SP Betacam) by Rose Draper (2003 Graduate) who went on to win best Visual Effects at the 2006 AFI awards for her VFX work on the feature documentary "Hunt Angels". Rose's exercise "Highroller" is a "James Bond" type title sequence made in Semester 1 as her first exercise and received positive accolades from the Age Film Critic, Adrian Martin, when it was screened as part of our Graduate Program at ACMI in 2003.

I will then talk briefly about some of the issues associated with teaching Visual Effect skills for feature film and broadcast production.