COMM2532 Contemporary Media Work Practices

• Establish your online presence and networked fluency.

• Learn production tools and techniques for online media.

• Develop your social media presence, both as a tool for your career and for publishing and promoting media projects.

• Develop a small online production by applying the skills developed in this course and COMM2530 Sound and Image.

COMM2530 Story, Genre and Medium

• Develop skills in scriptwriting for multiple modes of media delivery.

• Analyse a variety of media genres and develop your own genre interests.

• Develop a treatment for a fiction project as well as a non-fiction project.

COMM2682 Sound and Image

• Learn production practices for fiction and non-fiction projects.

• Produce a variety of teacher-specified production exercises and small projects.

• Engage in iterative activity and reflection, as you hone your skills and repeat techniques in different contexts, to experience different outcomes.

COMM2533 Post-Industrial Media

• Further develop production and distribution techniques for online media learnt in COMM2532 Contemporary Media Work Practices.

• Research the aesthetic, technical, and/or theoretical aspects of online storytelling.

• Produce, publish and distribute a short online media narrative as part of your research.

• Broaden your social media presence and practice advanced social media strategies.

School Elective 1

This post-graduate elective lets you:

• add value to your degree,

• pursue one of your interests, or

• explore an area that is new to you.

COMM2680 Collaborative Media Project

• Develop your collaboration and production skills as you plan and make a fiction or non-fiction project.

• Projects will be designed by students within the course in collaboration with leading industry practitioners. Projects may also be commissioned by industry partners.

COMM2540 New Directions in Narrative

• Experiment with various story structures enabled by digital and networked technologies.

• Develop techniques for the development of non-linear and interactive narratives

• Develop a script for a multi-platform project. This project may be further developed in COMM2663 Professional Research Project.

COMM2845 Research Methods for Media (previously GRAP2627)

• Design a major research project based on an identified issue or interest.

• Develop a research proposal and research methodology.

• Pass the research proposal in order to progress to the completion of the research project in COMM2786 Professional Research Project (Media).

COMM2683 Strategic Media Project

• Consolidate your professional practice and further your career goals by making an original project for a contemporary media audience.

• Build high-level conceptual and practical skills and develop your directorial vision for narrative, visual, auditory, linear and interactive media.

COMM2681 Media Career Development

• Develop your online profile with an online portfolio, CV and professional social media presence.

• Establish links with media organisations, companies, and other collaborators through networking activities.

• Conduct research about a specific skill or industry issue.

• Plan an entrepreneurial project or write a business plan for yourself as a sole trader.

• Progress your career direction through a work placement or internship.

School Elective 2

This post-graduate elective lets you:

• add value to your degree,

• pursue one of your interests, or

• explore an area that is new to you.

COMM2786 Professional Research Project

Complete the major research project that you proposed in COMM2845 Research Methods for Media or GRAP2627 Research Methods for Design and Digital Media.