COURSE AWARD WINNERS - SEMESTER 2 2016

2016 Master of Media Award for collaborative leadership
Winner: Alex Hipwell
Honourable mention: Han Jin

2016 Master of Media Award for documentary
Winner: Sabine Fritsch for 'Kuona Trust'
Honourable mentions: Helena, Ahmed, Jingwen and Zhang for 'Sovereign Hill - the forgotten Chinese of the Australian Gold Rush' 

2016 Master of Media Award for social media
Winner: Makara Vorn and Stella Pongsitanan for 'Stop blaming the victim’

2016 Master of Media Award for client relations
Winner: Helena Maoqing Lu for 'Sovereign Hill - the forgotten Chinese of the Australian Gold Rush' and Ardour
Honourable mentions: Emma Sharp, Julian Grant, Shamir Muhammad and Keifeng Wang for the Lake Condah project

2016 Master of Media Award for engagement with industry
Winner: Ekaterina Kologrivova for her professional research project, in which she interviewed television industry professionals.
Honourable mention: Megan Brewer for her work with womens' AFL
Honourable mentions: Ahmed, Stacy (Xiao Ma), Ailee Ma, Jing Wen and Dera Huang for 'Start Up Melbourne’

2016 Master of Media Award for innovative mobile video production
Winner: Vivi Octaviani for ‘Eight colours of sound’ 

2016 Master of Media Award for Going Above and Beyond the Call of Duty
Joint winners: Ksenia Fedotova and Priyankar Ray

NEW APP TO PROMOTE TYRENDARRA INDIGENOUS PROTECTED AREA

In semester 2, 2016, Master of Media students took part in a 10-day field trip to learn about Gunditjmara culture, land and people.

The students are collaborating with members of Winda Mara Aboriginal Corporation on a mobile app to be used in the promotion of the Tyrendarra Indigenous Protected Area, near Portland in Victoria's south-west. Currently in post-production, the work-integrated learning (WIL) project is being created as part of the Collaborative Media Project course. The app uses GPS technology to trigger audio, video, photographic and textual content as the user progresses through the site. The content includes interviews with Gunditjmara Elders, rangers and tourism officers, and aims to enhance tourism to the area. The mobile app will be released in 2017 by Winda Mara on the Apple and Google app stores. 

Mobile app to promote Indigenous protected area

PRIDE NOT PREJUDICE

VIDEOS FOR THE VICTORIAN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION 

Less than 20 years ago in Victoria, LGBTI people had no legal protection against discrimination on the basis of their sexual orientation and gender identity. Change finally came in 2000 with the inclusion of two new attributes to the Equal Opportunity Act –  sexual orientation and gender identity. 

Pride not Prejudice is a collaboration between the Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission (VEOHRC) and RMIT Master of Media students in the course Collaborative Media Project. The project is a series of short films that engages with the amendment to the Equal Opportunity Act in 2000 that included protections for the attributes of sexual orientation and gender identity. The videos feature interviews with prominent members of Victoria’s LGBTI communities 15 years after the amendment came into effect. 

RMIT Lecturer Patrick Kelly said the aim of the project was to give students the opportunity to work on real-life projects, responding to a client brief that helps them prepare for a career in media.

Students help in the fight against discrimination

BOLLYWOOD STUDY TOUR

In February 2016, Master of Media students travelled to India on a two-week study tour to explore Bollywood culture and gain an understanding of the world’s largest producer of film. The tour was organised by Master of Media lecturer Dr Vikrant Kishore.

Master of Media student Prachi Daga said “This experienced really solidified to me what I want to do - make docudramas based on history and culture and take it to a global market…The two weeks in India was extremely eye-opening. In such a short amount of time I was exposed to a range of influential professionals in the industry and learnt about how Indian cinema functioned.” 

Students interpret Bollywood through a lens

Dr Vikrant Kishore talks about RMIT media students India study tour

RMIT students head to Bollywood