bachelor of communication honours

Natalie Puchalski is presenting at this year's ASPERA conference in Perth. The academic work she is presenting is based on her 2010 thesis "Rethinking Journalism Through Documentary Modes".

The Media Graduate and Honours student, Jim Elson-John has a documentary screening in the St Kilda Film Festival in the Top 100 Shorts competition.

http://www.stkildafilmfestival.com.au/2011/details/264

GIVEN EVERYTHING: A celebration of influential Australian Musician Maurice Frawley. From the humble beginnings of country life we see the profound effect of one man's music.
2011 / DVD / 30MINS GENRE DOCUMENTARY DIRECTOR REUBIN WILLIAMS, JIM ELSON DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY JIM ELSON PRODUCER REUBIN WILLIAMS, JIM ELSON, DIANNE PURNELL

This insightful documentary includes interviews with Paul Kelly, Claire Bowditch and Kasey Chambers.
A review on Portable TV:
http://portable.tv/film/post/melbourne-a-city-in-film/11/

I am writing a blog that provides occassional commentary on the 2011 honours student blogs over at http://labsome.wordpress.com

There is now an online calendar where you can see if the edit suites are booked. You cannot book them online (as far as I know), but you see when they're available, and you can then request a booking. Use this to schedule your projects if you need access to the edit suites for film and sound work.

http://mctechs.heliohost.org/mrbs/web/

Please note that the last day to add courses for semester 1 is this Friday, 5.00 pm 11 March 2011.

I don't know why timetables are not yet available, they are usually available well before this. However, when they are available, you will be able to find them at:

http://www.rmit.edu.au/mediacommunication/students/timetables

This is from an official RMIT email:

I would to reiterate that commencing International students must register with International services before they are allowed to enrol. This is to prevent international students from enrolling overseas before arriving in Australia. Often at times problems arise with visas, etc. and it makes things complicated when these students are enrolled but have not arrived in Australia.

Please let commencing international students know that they will need to register at:

International student registration
City campus
University Function Room
Building 8, Level 2, Room 8
368 - 374 Swanston Street, Melbourne

10 am to 4 pm (Monday to Friday)
from Thursday 13 January to Friday 11 March 2011.

Below is a pdf of the electives available for honours students doing the program in 2011. You only do one elective for the entire year, NOT one per semester! We will go over enrolment during the first workshop (Research Workshop A) and if there are mistakes you can complete a change of enrolment form.

Once upon a time we had Program Information Guides (yes, PIGs), which were PDFs that outlined what subjects where available and the like. Now they are all and only online, so please have a look at:

http://www.rmit.edu.au/browse;ID=2hlfu2ri4fw1

if you want to find the 'enrolment program structure' which is RMIT speak for what subjects you need to enrol in. You will need to search for your honours program by the program code (because RMIT assumes you go around saying "I'm studying BH055" rather than "I'm doing honours in media"). The codes are BH053, BH054, BH055, BH056, or BH057. Doesn't matter which you use, since the 'enrolment program structure' is identical for all.

Well, all the work for 2010 has been submitted. An excellent, varied and interesting collection.

• Anthony Read's fictocritical magnum opus on Iron Maiden
• Danica Revote's autoethnographic media project exploring Asian Australian identity
• Fergus Grady's thesis on film festivals in the emerging Emirates
• Fraser Allison's game studies thesis on the Videogame as Prosthetic Imagination
• Hayden Jose's communications strategy in support of "Successfully Communicating Administration and Fundraising Overheads to INGO Donors"
• James Thompson's music documentary on The Caribs, an Australian band that was instrumental in the rise of the Jamaican recording industry
• Jasmine Roth's short parallel narrative film script
• Jason Ng's thesis on the possibilities of the internet as an agent for democractic change, using China as a case study
• Kristofor Lawson's journalism project investigating the development of an alternative model for journalism publishing in a networked age
• Nadia Samat's social media marketing project promoting an inner urban hip hop collective
• Natalie Puchalksi's journalism thesis investigating the relationship of documentary film to journalism
• Nisa Halim's thesis investigating the role of public service broadcasting in the context of Brunei
• Stephanie Liew's development of a social media community of practice for Parks Victoria
• Vicnesh Nadarajah's thesis investigating the realtionship of Al Qaeda to emerging Information Communication Technologies
• Wye Keen Wong's documentary film project exploring Asian Australian identity