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
