About the Course

What is GEN TV

GEN TV is QPIX’s uniquely industrial Diploma of Screen & Media course, designed for the new and future world of television and ‘transmedia’. This exciting, innovative, and practical course actually enables students to produce a multi-episode series designed and made for TV and multiple-platform broadcast, distribution and interaction, whilst earning a nationally accredited Diploma of Screen and Media (CUF50107) with this prestigious screen Academy.

GEN TV covers writing, planning, production, editing, directing and much more, while producing a quality broadcast show designed for multiple-platform release.

GEN TV is hands on training

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.

Why was the GEN TV course developed?

GEN TV concentrates on the one industry sector most often ignored by screen course developers and trainers - TV.

It is a medium watched by virtually everyone in the country and is one of the main sectors where there are jobs, but no one knows where to go to build a career in the television industry. That was until QPIX created GEN TV!

There are other multi-media courses around the country now, but none have made the direct link across into what still remains the primary home entertainment medium of Television. That was until QPIX created GEN TV!

QPIX has gone straight to the core of TV and multi-platform production education and designed a large slate of innovative, integrated transmedia television training programs designed to run over coming years that will future-proof students’ knowledge for their career journeys in this rapidly evolving industry.

As well as filling its role as a nationally accredited Screen & Media Academy, QPIX functions for government as the State screen industry development centre. As such, QPIX is dedicated to delivering training that will properly prepare its graduates for the actual industry, not an imagined one – that is why we developed GEN TV.

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.