Internships

Employers are invited to participate in our media arts internship programme.

Students from the School of Media Arts are available to intern with employers who can benefit from their skills and talents. Areas of expertise include moving image, photography, graphic design, digital design, journalism, painting, sculpture, audio engineering, music, sound design, public relations and advertising.

What are internships?

Internships are 120 hour placements of Wintec students, offering a structured form of work experience that students receive course credit for.

How it works

Students keep a daily journal, build a portfolio and present a seminar and written report to their peers. The employer sets the student's tasks and projects, and completes an evaluation form on completion to provide feedback on the student's performance. Find out more about the details and employer benefits of internships in the FAQ section.

Further information

For further information contact the Internship director.

Projects

New Wave publication project

A book put together by Media Arts staff and students records the journeys of 18 migrants who now live in Hamilton, but were born outside New Zealand. The New Wave: Hamilton’s Migrant Community, looks at the growing diversity of Hamilton’s population. While 70 percent of Hamilton is broadly defined as European, and 20 percent as Māori and Pasifika, there are also citizens from 160 ethnic backgrounds. Journalism tutor Charles Riddle says it is this last 10 percent of the city's population that is fascinatingly diverse and makes for interesting reading. Around 15 students worked on the publication under the expert guidance of editor in residence Aimie Cronin. The project team also worked closely with the Hamilton Migrant Centre and the Hamilton City Council. The book is the first phase in a two-year project which will culminate with an exhibition in the Waikato Museum.

New Wave Launch books Photo by Geoff Ridder

River City Sound sessions

A moving image student produced a multi-camera production making live videos for local bands.

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Matariki Interactive Waka project

The Matariki Interactive Waka Project is a multi-disciplinary project that aims to create an interactive waka sculpture that will sit beside the Waikato River at Hamilton’s Ferrybank Park and draw the people of the city back to the river.

It’s a community project lead by Media Arts tutor Joe Citizen with Wintec students in the areas of Trade, Engineering, Media Arts and Early Childhood acting as co-creators of the sculpture. We also have several Wintec staff members and independent researchers on board who are all working hard towards a final goal that benefits the people of Hamilton and visitors to this beautiful place. We are also working in partnership with Wintec’s Maori Achievement Office who are advising on tikanga, matauranga and whenua consultation.

Artist's impression of Tōia Mai, Hamilton’s new interactive waka sculpture to be gifted by Wintec.

Moving Image students profile Waikato Museum

One of Moving Image Production students assignments is a group client-based Documentary. This is the fourth year we have teamed up with Waikato Museum who has been our Client for two Museum staff profiles that share behind the scenes stories at the Waikato Museum. Over the last few years of this ongoing community project, Moving Image students have made an excellent range of videos highlighting a variety of Museum staff profiles: what they do, how they do it and why they like working at the Waikato Museum. We look forward to continuing our relationship with the Waikato Museum again in the near future.

News

Wintec students design cookbooks with Aotearoa flavour

Thursday, 08 December 2022

The brief to design a cookbook publication has been a fixture in the curriculum for many first year Bachelor of Design students at Wintec School of Media Arts, Te Pūkenga.

But this year, with the intention of making the process more “real life”, tutors saw the opportunity to capture the experience of the school’s Matariki celebration where a hāngī is prepared and shared with staff and students at the campus marae, Te Kōpū Mānia o Kirikiriroa.

“It’s real life, so it’s not just hypothetical,” says Wintec design tutor Emily Russell.

“During our Matariki celebration the students are part of the experience, where we share kai and cook a hāngī and then they take that into their designs.”

This collaborative cookbook project is very much a multidisciplinary one. Sarah McCoard, a fellow student who is studying a Bachelor of Contemporary Art with a focus on photography, was enlisted to capture the hāngī process from start to finish, along with photo technician Geoff Ridder. The recipes included were gathered through conversations with colleagues and students around their experiences making hāngī and preparing kai at a marae.

While the students also applied their usual design skills such as, formatting, character styles and the printing process, a byproduct of the project has seen the students gain a deeper understanding of Te Ao Māori and extend their te reo knowledge.

Design student Kody Walker says that looking at the translations between English and Te Reo has meant he’s been able to write, read and pronounce the key Māori words he included in his publication.

“By the end of the assessment I could read at a glance, the words in Māori. I couldn't do that before this project,” he says.

One student Jorja Metcalfe didn’t make the Matariki celebration on campus because she was at her Mother’s Marae - doing the same thing.

Although she wasn’t there she could connect with the brief.

“I used the images of the fry bread and the hāngī being pulled up,” she says.

“The image of the man [Blaine Rakena, Team Manager from Wintec Information Technology] was really cool, he just stood out amongst the smoke.”

The class set of cookbooks are on display in the design studios at Wintec, but it’s just the start, insist the design tutors. They can see how this project can grow, perhaps being exhibited at the campus wharekai where they will be useful for the planning of future hāngī and celebrations and accessible to everyone who gathers there. They can also see how the conversation will continue as new recipes are shared by students and staff with each new year.

“Sarah’s images captured a real sense of the manaakitanga,” says Russell.

“That’s extended into the student publications and the care and respect they have shown for the content.”

Blaine Rakena, Team Manager from Wintec Information Technology, on campus at the purpose-build hāngi pit outside the wharekai at Te Kōpū Mānia o Kirikiriroa. Photo: Geoff Ridder

First year design students at Wintec School of Media Arts, Te Pūkenga with the cookbooks they have designed using images from their shared Matariki feast and recipes from the community. Tutors Emily Russell and Elgee Van Tonder (Left).

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