About the Course

What is GEN TV

GEN TV is QPIX’s ground-breaking new concept in screen industry training. Students in GEN TV work with QPIX to produce shows designed and made for broadcast. Students train for a Diploma of Screen & Media with a specialisation in multi-platform television, but the focus is on the show. The show is real and the deadlines are real. The training just seamlessly falls into place for the student in the heat of production. There is no course like this in the country, and it won’t stop here. QPIX has a catalogue of show designs ready for the future.

The industry needs GEN TV

Throughout Australia, broadcasters are concerned by the fact that their network staff are not being replenished when they leave the industry. Far too few younger people are moving in to be trained in the business, the technicals and the craft of making television. This is because of the erosion of a consistent slate of home-grown creative production in Australia in which people trained in the past. The broadcasters have discussed this urgent problem with QPIX, and GEN TV is our direct response to this industry-wide need.

The GEN TV edge

GEN TV is different from other courses because our students make multiple episodes for a series television show in partnership with a major broadcaster, something no other course has ever done. GEN TV is not an academic course – it is about skilling; learning by doing; and working creatively towards engaging an audience and generating revenue from quality product. On top of that, GEN TV makes television product for the new world – made for broadcast and webcast, simultaneously.

Benefits of GEN TV

The benefits for students are many – learning while working at an industrial pitch; learning from working industry professionals; making industry contacts; learning field shooting and studio work in the Channel Seven Studios; gaining a screen and then a broadcast credit; learning the wide range of roles in traditional television production; learning the roles in the new world of cross-platform web and television production; learning in the environment of QPIX, one of the leading innovators in low-budget development and production; and graduating industry-ready.