Communications & Arts
Communications & Arts
Our Communications & Arts teaching and research programs are connected to local and global communities through a range of industry projects, exhibitions, performances and creative collaborations.
This unique interaction has enabled us to establish professional affiliations with a number of partners, allowing students the opportunity to engage with industry across a range of disciplines and professions
ECU Student Wins The 2011 Bill Warnock Award
Our PhD in Communications student Damien Spiccia was the successful recipient of the Bill Warnock Award for Emerging Screen Writers for his script Beyond the Pale. Damien received a support package valued at $6,000.Beyond the Pale is an Australian fantasy in the vein of Pan's Labyrinth with a dose of John Hughes thrown in. The script is about a young woman who is mysteriously cursed to turn into a fox, and the local teenage witch who may the only one who can help her.
Born in Perth, Damien Spiccia graduated from our WA Screen Academy in 2005 and won a Screenwriting WASA the following year for his first musical short, A Trick of the Moonlight. In 2008 he was awarded Link funding for Deep End, a mix of live‑action and animation, and in 2010 he was awarded HyperLink funding for his second musical short, Light as a Feather. He has also directed episodes of locally‑produced children's TV drama Castaway.
More winners
- Stuffed, a short film by one of our Master of Professional Communications (Screen Studies) graduates, Magda Wozniak, won Best Screenplay at the WA Screen Awards, Best Tertiary Short Fiction at the Australian Teachers of Media (ATOM) awards and a nomination for the Australian Writers Guild (AWGIE) awards. Magda has continued on to write for the television dramas Rescue Special Ops and Neighbours.
"I've had to challenge my own perceptions and it's made me grow as a person.
"This course offered me freedom. I was able to choose units that reflected my interests, strengths and background, so it felt like my course.
"Being at a university where so many different schools of knowledge exist and so many activities take place, means that you can enjoy a richer uni life. And being involved with other projects has allowed me to gain more skills that are otherwise outside the scope of my degree, but make me a much more able person.
"Now I'm ready to take on almost anything!"
Marziya Mohammedali
Master of Innovative Technology student
Specialist facilities & services
Our Communications and Arts students have access to a state of the art education environment.
There's 24x7 access to our artists' studios', edit suites, computer labs with printing facilities and latest software.
The very best digital and analogue professional video, audio and photographic equipment is also available for loan from our on-campus Media Store.
See our students' work
See our Communication & Arts students' work in our creative showcase.