Video Production lecturer Cisco Corea speaking to students about his award winning MTV Adidas campaign.

I’m pleased to announce that our Video Production lecturer Cisco Corea has just won a best advertising campaign of the year / Branded Content at the ASTRA awards for the MTV Adidas campaign he produced and directed.

Our Sydney copywriting lecturer Cameron Horn is nominated for the 6th year in a row at the ACRA Radio Awards, and up against his ex-student Katrina Fowler for the second year running. Account Management graduate Kyra Brown is also nominated this year. Congratulations to all three.

Ian Thomson’s latest short film THE INVISIBLE EDGE was also an official selection in the London Independent Film Awards, pre-selected for the New Zealand Film Awards, and was a finalist in the Mindscape Film Festival in Los Angeles. The film will also be screened as part of The Big Anxiety Festival in Sydney.

The Advertising & Media faculty are pleased to be launching a new unit in GAMIFICATION in T3, developed and delivered by the award-winning advertising creative director and author, Simon Veksner.

It will also be the first roll-out of the AUDIO STORYTELLING unit with multi-ACRA-award winning radio copywriter Cameron Horn. This unit teaches student radio advertising script-writing, audio production using ProTools and the increasing popular art of podcasting.

In Melbourne we will be running a new elective in COPYWRITINGwith the local Melbourne Social Media personality Candy Hertz.

We are looking forward to welcoming Lizzie Mack on-board to deliver the new STORY & NARRATIVE unit as part of the Digital Media Diploma and Degree in T3. Lizzie is not only a seasoned social media marketing and film teacher, but also a talented jazz vocalist (https://twitter.com/macklizzie). The unit explores a vast array of storytelling techniques for digital media projects, from online video, to interactive games and digital marketing campaigns.

Digital Design lecturer Jason Gemenis has just launched his new digital agency PEPPERMINT. This not only offers students great industry focused learning at the coal-face of digital marketing, design and media, but Jason also offers internships for budding digital design specialists.

In addition, in November this year our CREATIVE PROCESS lecturer Julieann Brooker will be travelling to Bhutan with Dr Lindsay Oades, Director of the Centre for Positive Psychology, Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne, to study the measurement and embodiment of Gross National Happiness (GNH) in a combined program between GNH Bhutan and GNH Australia. 

Ian Thomson, Head of the Advertising & Digital Media Faculty