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VET Entertainment Course
The VET Entertainment course prepares students for work in a broad range of technical, production, and customer-service related roles in the entertainment industry.
Course Description
The course covers a variety of live performance and production contexts, including festivals, music concerts, theatre, opera, musicals, dance, and corporate events. Students investigate different production roles such as stage management, production management, front of house operations and event management. They also explore a range of technical roles in the industry including lighting, sound, staging and vision systems operation.
Learning experiences are hands-on and practical. Students work their way through a series of competency-based tasks where they apply their skills across the different phases of production. To complete the course, students must complete a minimum of 70 hours practical work placement. Part of this work involves the planning, bump-in, operation and bump-out of a range of live entertainment events at Newington College.
There are 7 mandatory focus areas of study in the Entertainment Course:
- Staging
- Lighting
- Audio
- Vision Systems
- Safety
- Customer Service
- Working in the Entertainment Industry and Workplace
AQF VET Qualification
Over 2 years students work their way through the 240-hour course and an additional 60-hour Specialisation Study course. Upon completion, students can gain an industry recognised Certificate III in Live Production and Technical Services qualification.
HSC
Students can elect to complete the Entertainment Industry HSC examination which provides the opportunity for students to have this HSC examination mark contribute to their ATAR.
The Entertainment Industry HSC examination contributes 2 units towards the calculation of a student’s ATAR.
