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.

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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.

View on Vimeo

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

Chinese students deliver heartfelt "Pōkarekare Ana" welcome during Executive Director visit

Monday, 26 August 2024

Students from the Musical Education Joint Programme between Wintec and Zhengzhou Preschool Education College (ZPEC) in China performed a beautiful welcome waiata for Kieran Hewitson, Wintec | Te Pūkenga Tumu Whenua ā-Rohe 2 | Executive Director, during her recent visit.

Wintec Academic Staff Member from the School of Media Arts, Debbie Nisbet, has been teaching students in Zhengzhou online for the past two years. At the end of May, she had the opportunity to travel to Zhengzhou and teach on campus.

During her visit, her manager, David Sidwell, was scheduled to travel as well. He was invited by the school to give a Masterclass on the Monday, while Debbie was set to teach classes on the Tuesday and Wednesday.

For David’s Masterclass, they wanted to create a practical experience for the students instead of a typical lecture. Since the students are preschool music teachers, they decided to engage them by teaching different classes on how a choir learns a song. This hands-on approach aimed to equip them with skills they could use in their future teaching. They chose to work with an arrangement of "Pōkarekare Ana" and a traditional Chinese song, “Mo Li Hua” (Little Jasmine Flower).

Unfortunately, David fell ill and couldn’t make the trip, so Debbie took over the Masterclass on the Monday. Luckily, one of their former students, Xiyao Chen, who now teaches music at a university in Beijing, joined Debbie in Zhengzhou. Xiyao's assistance in translating made the teaching experience smoother as they worked with the students on the songs.

Wintec Academic Staff Member from the School of Media Arts, Debbie Nisbet, teaching the choir.

Throughout the day, they held several sessions with different groups of students. The first session focused on teaching "Pōkarekare Ana" to the school’s choir, which was particularly exciting because the choir teacher expressed a strong desire for the choir to perform the song in competitions.

“I was quite stunned to see them perform “Pōkarekare Ana” so beautifully in the video, and to see the results of the Masterclass. So, in time we’ll probably teach them other waiata that would be appropriate for them to learn, potentially the Wintec waiata,” Debbie said.

For the other classes that day, many students had never sung in a choir before, making it a new and enjoyable experience for them.

The students felt singing “Pōkarekare Ana” would be a good welcome for Kieran during her visit in June. Kieran said it was a beautiful performance and a lovely surprise as the waiata had strong ties to her Iwi, and had a few variations, but the version they performed was the version that speaks to the Waiapu river, a lovely coincidence.

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