Student Snapshots
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Second year Communication Studies/Commerce student Melanie Perkins, winner of the Asia Pacific PR Student of the Year Award. Melanie’s brief: to pitch a PR marketing campaign for a new sportswear range (“Go”!). She produced a video to sell the idea—which worked! After a video-conference interview, Melanie was flown to Hong Kong where she was presented with the US$5,000 award. The prize includes a paid internship with the international PR firm, Weber Shandwick, and Melanie has been offered positions in Singapore, Hong Kong and China. For more details please visit: http://www.webershandwick.com.au/prstudentoftheyear/2006_overview.html |
Network Ten asked UWA Communication students to assist with video editing at Telstra Rally Australia in Perth, October 2006. Evana Ho and Catherine Hogan worked for sessions up to fifteen hours straight to get the show on air. Evana was Editor’s Assistant, helping transform the video and sound inputs into commercial quality “packages”, amidst the organised confusion and non-stop pace of a major, nationally televised, sports event. How did they survive and stay awake? “Red Bull, coffee, and the occasional can of Jim Bean and Coke”!
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Sherry Wong will complete the BA(Communication Studies) in mid 2007 in our Hong Kong based program (a collaboration with Hong Kong University SPACE), and has already accepted a position with a local PR firm. Gordon So, also in the Hong Kong program, plans to transfer to the Perth campus for the last year of his degree, and looks forward to a career in journalism. |
In Living Memories Communications students work in small teams in partnership with a person with intellectual disability to create their filmic “autobiography”. Claire Bolto (with Mark and team members Laura Wilson, left, and Nikki Harvey, right) writes “I can honestly say that being part of this project has been the most rewarding and worthwhile experience of my university career. To see how excited Mark would get at the idea of having a film made just about him and his life was inspiring, … Capturing an entire life in five minutes was extremely difficult, but this film was so much more than an assignment: it was something real—for him and for us.”
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| Like many students, Holly Lees took the opportunity to take an exchange semester overseas. Looking back, Holly writes: “Communication Studies opened my eyes to many different aspects of the world,” and exchange “gave me the opportunity to study at the University of California in Santa Barbara, which was the most amazing experience of my life, both academically and socially.” Communications students have also taken up exchange semesters with University of California at Los Angeles; Queens and Simon Fraser (Canada); and Bristol and Royal Holloway (UK).
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“Television and Video Production” is a 12 point Communications elective that we teach in collaboration with Temasek Polytechnic in Singapore. Students spend three weeks in a small group learning hands on skills in a fabulous environment, in what many describe as one of the highlights of their degree. The trip usually coincides with Chinese New Year, so students experience both cutting edge digital media applications side by side with one of the most important traditions in Chinese culture. |
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