Creative and Digital Media

VCE VET Creative and Digital Media students produce digital works that encompass web development, games and multimedia design, content writing, audio, film and video, photography, static design, and animation. The works selected for this exhibition demonstrate a range of capabilities, from traditional creative skills to engagement with and use of the latest technology and concepts.

 

Emily Bojczuk

Salesian College Sunbury, Sunbury

Still of the opening logo for ‘Twizz! Guardian of the Sweets’. The logo is colourful and made up of shapes that reference chocolate and lolly pops.
Emily Bojczuk created a trailer for the fictional game ‘Twizz! Guardian of the Sweets’. Colourful motifs were used to create a world inspired by sweets and candy.

Twizz! Guardian of the Sweets: Animated Trailer

Animation, Adobe Animate

My animation aims to deliver a brief understanding of the concepts of the game Twizz! Guardian of the Sweets, as a game trailer. The fictional game features a young dragon on a mission to save his lolly home and fulfil his destiny as a hero to a gummy dragon-kind. I used processes and techniques such as storyboarding and classic tweening, and created an original character named Twizz.

Vicky Deng

Caulfield Grammar School, Wheelers Hill

Still from the Food Recycling Animation. A cartoon girl is shown wearing overalls and holding farm animals. The text ‘the wonderful world of composting’ is circled around her.
Vicky Deng created an animation to educate viewers on and raise awareness of the sustainable practice of composting.

Food Recycling Animation

Animation Adobe Animate

My animation is a short educational video for a local council explaining the process of composting, in an effort to increase sustainability awareness. The design targets individuals who are living within the local council area, are of any gender, age and socio-economic status, and who are not familiar with composting. I used processes such as storyboarding and classic tweening, alongside screen principles such as anticipation and easing in to create my animation.

Emily Dunne

Mentone Girls’ Grammar School, Mentone

A still from the Pinocchio opening sequence. The title ‘Pinocchio’ is set on an orange background. A yellow figure in a blue top hat drifts down holding an umbrella.
Emily Dunne created an animated opening sequence for the story of Pinocchio. The marionette motif is used to explore themes of the story.

The Adventures of Pinocchio Opening Sequence

Animation, Adobe Animate, Adobe Illustrator

This animation explores the key themes and ideas present in Carlo Collodi’s 1883 story The Adventures of Pinocchio in a modern and simplistic way. I focused on the traditional use of Italian marionettes and used the technique of frame-by-frame animation for a large portion of this piece as a means of reflecting the movements of puppets on strings.

Emily Dunne

Mentone Girls’ Grammar School, Mentone

A cartoon town with four buildings set side-by-side. The buildings respectively read ‘About Me’, ‘Travel Photography’, ‘Now Showing Animation’ and ‘Contact Me’.
Emily Dunne designed a website to look like a town. Elements in the town lead to different pages that exhibit Emily’s VET CDM work.

Portfolio Website

Website, Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Animate

My website aims to creatively display my past work from VCE VET Creative and Digital Media and outside school to future clients. I aimed to create an interactive and colourful website by designing it as a small town, with buildings and people moving about, so my website feels like its own little world.

Conor Elder

St Leonard’s College, Brighton

A still from an animation. The title, ‘The Magic of Christmas’ is in white text against a dark blue background.
Conor Elder created an animation that captures a young boy's anticipation of waiting for Christmas.

The Magic of Christmas

Animation, Adobe Animate

My animation shares the story of a young boy’s anticipation of Christmas. I convey my own childhood experience of struggling with the turmoil of waiting, and my sense of excitement. I endeavoured to instil a feeling of nostalgia within my audience. I used processes such as tweening, masking and cinematography to fulfil this.

Conor Elder

St Leonard’s College, Brighton

A screenshot of Conor’s website. A photograph of a black swan against blue water is featured.
Conor Elder created a website to showcase his creative work.

My Filmmaking Portfolio

Website, Adobe Dreamweaver

My animation shares the story of a young boy’s anticipation of Christmas. I convey my own childhood experience of
struggling with the turmoil of waiting, and my sense of excitement. I endeavoured to instil a feeling of nostalgia within my audience. I used processes such as tweening, masking and cinematography to fulfil this.

Maya Fehring

Strathcona Girls Grammar School, Canterbury

A still from the opening sequence. Large green cat eyes are set on a light blue background. A wide smiling mouth holds the title ‘Alice in Wonderland’.
Maya Fehring created an animated opening sequence that uses elements of the story ‘Alice in Wonderland’ to introduce the narrative to the viewer.

Alice in Wonderland Title Sequence

Animation, Adobe Animate

This motion graphic explores Lewis Carroll’s Alice In Wonderland with movement and visual design. The themes
of innocence and playfulness were developed using patterns and repetition, pastel colour themes and collage. To create this motion sequence I used animation techniques including onion skinning, masking and transparency.

Minuque Fernando

St Francis Xavier College, Beaconsfield

A still from the animation ‘Before I Could Cry’. A black ghost-like figure emerges from a purple background.
Minuque Fernando created an animation that explores the anxieties of her main character.

Before I Could Cry

Animation, Adobe Animate

A girl named Ellie is overwhelmed by her inability to act upon the world’s problems. The animation is a broadcast of her mind where these problems manifest themselves into entities or occurrences that haunt her. This animation uses a combination of both Adobe Flash animation and Adobe After Effects to achieve its unique visual aesthetic.

Miles Gust

Eltham College, Eltham

A screenshot of Miles’ website. A photo of Miles is featured. He is illuminated by a lamp. The banner directs users to pages titled ‘About’, ‘Designs’, ‘Animation’ and ‘Web’.
Miles Gust created a website to showcase his creative work.

Fen (Showcase Website)

Website, Adobe Dreamweaver

As a website Fen attempts to combine intuitive, functional design with memorable style and subtle humour. Taking inspiration from the effective simplicity of website archives, navigational elements are sparse and functional. Content pages contrast with the large, colourful images. My aim was to create a unique website that didn’t sacrifice any visual clarity.

Benjamin Hunter

Assumption College, Kilmore

A screenshot from the animation. The title ‘Emotus’ is in red text against a black background. The O is replaced by a world globe.
Emotus is a trailer for a game in which a young adventurer faces off against a monster.

Emotus

Animation, Adobe Animate

My animation explores the story of a young adventurer facing off against a vastly more powerful monster. The adventurer holding onto his strength when things seem most dire is allegorical of the story’s theme: the importance of holding onto hope even when it seems irrational. I used techniques like squash and stretch, and exaggeration to achieve this.

Olivia Lee

Strathcona Girls Grammar School, Canterbury

A screenshot of Olivia’s website. The graphics are pixelated and colourful. A girl with black hair sits in a beanbag. A cat sits on the windowsill looking at the city.
Oliva Lee created a website to showcase her VET CDM work and other creative hobbies.

Portfolio Website

Website, Adobe Dreamweaver

My portfolio website was designed to showcase the work I completed in VCE VET Creative and Digital Media as well
as hobbies such as photography. This website will provide examples of my creativity and technical skills as a designer for university selection committees and potential clients. The website has a nostalgic yet modern aesthetic, which I hope will communicate my personality and interests.

Benjamin Loxton

Kingswood College, Box Hill

The opening title from the Road Safety Animation. The title is displayed against a cartoon of a boy driving in a red car. Red P-plates are shown.
Benjamin Loxton created an animation to educate learner drivers on the dangers of driving.

RACV Road Safety: Driving with Other Road Users

Animation, Adobe Animate

This road safety animation for the Royal Automobile Club of Victoria (RACV) highlights the danger of driving with other road users as a new driver. The animation captures a teenager who discusses sharing the road with pedestrians, cyclists, trams and buses, and how to best manage these situations in the safest way possible.

Blake McGuire

St Francis Xavier College, Beaconsfield

A still from the animation ‘Untethered’. A man in a brown coat sits meditating on a grassy hill under a wind chime.
Blake McGuire’s animation explores the philosophy of dualism, the theory that the mind and body are separate.

UNTETHERED

Animation, Adobe Animate

My animation metaphorically asserts the individualised discovery of non-dualism. Following someone who is beginning to understand non-duality in the pursuit of happiness, I wanted to tackle something almost everyone experiences philosophically. I consistently undermined my computing power as I maxed 32GBs of RAM multiple times.

Yasmin Page

Monbulk College, Monbulk

A screenshot of Yasmin’s webpage. The word ‘Artworks’ sits in a grey sky. A rendering of Southbank and the Melbourne cityscape sits across the foreground.
Yasmin Page created a website to showcase her school work and creative projects.

Portfolio Website

Website, Adobe Dreamweaver

My website is a portfolio that highlights both personal artworks and school projects. I aimed to make the website appear organised and friendly through the use of cloudshaped icons, page headings, and colourful images, which complement the minimalist design. The final product was created in Adobe Dreamweaver using HTML and CSS.

Emily Peck

St Leonard’s College, Brighton

A still from the animation ‘Dreaming’. A girl and a blue lion face each other on green grass.
Emily Peck created an animation in which people’s spirits are embodied by different animals who guide them through life.

Dreaming

Animation, Adobe Animate

My animation tells the story of spirit animals and how they guide people through life’s hardships. Within this narrative I aimed to explore how people are portrayed through their spirit. I portrayed the bravest people as lions or tigers, while the more sensitive people are portrayed as horses or birds.

When developing, designing and producing the animation, I used a variety of processes and techniques to develop my narrative and my characters, such as storyboarding, frameby-frame animation and concept illustrations.

Emily Shaw

Northern College of the Arts and Technology, Preston

A still from the animation ‘Blaidd’. The title is written in angular fluorescent blue writing against a black background.
Emily Shaw created a mock advertisement for the fictional streetwear Blaidd.

Blaidd

Animation, Adobe Animate, Adobe Premiere, Procreate, Flipaclip

My animation is a mock fashion advertisement for Blaidd, a fictional brand of streetwear. I wanted to direct the audience towards a futuristic cyberpunk style. The target audience is people aged from around 16 to 21 years who are rowdy and carefree and have a slightly chaotic nature. I created the digital illustration on my iPad and utilised a
mixture of techniques such as tweening and frame-by-frame animation on my iPad and Mac computer.

Meaghan Sheehan

Mentone Girls’ Grammar School, Mentone

A screenshot from Meaghan’s opening sequence. The title ‘Alice in Wonderland’ is shown framed by pink hanging flowers on a blue background.
Meaghan Sheehan created the opening sequence for an ‘Alice in Wonderland’ animation.

Alice in Wonderland Opening Sequence

Animation, Adobe Animate

My animation aims to set the scene for an Alice in Wonderland movie and displays example names of actors and actresses in the film. I painted the images using watercolour and then animated them in Adobe Animate.

Zoe Whitney

Mentone Girls’ Grammar School, Mentone

A screenshot of Zoe’s website. A neighbourhood, a school, an airport and a post office sit on a green background. They are titled ‘About Me’, ‘School Work’, ‘Travel’ and ‘Contact Me’ respectively.
Zoe Whitney’s website showcases the VET CDM work she’s created.

Portfolio Website

Website, Procreate, Adobe Animate, Adobe Dreamweaver

My website captures my personality and interests through the unique designs and images that portray different aspects of my life. I aimed to display the work I have made this year during the VCE VET Creative and Digital Media course and implement the skills I have learnt when producing my website.

Kirsten Wijaya

Kingswood College, Box Hill

A page from Kirsten’s folio. It shows an animation storyboard of sausages being barbequed.
Kirsten Wijaya’s folio was selected as an excellent example. Her folio shows the production of a safety animation that demonstrates the risk of using your phone while driving.

Don’t Use Your Phone While Driving

Portfolio, Adobe Animate

My informative safety animation is for drivers on Victorian roads. Through the eyes of a P-plate driver and a pedestrian, my animation discusses the road rules and risks surrounding the use of mobile devices. Using a colourful, cartoonish art style, I aimed to target a younger audience, in the hope of educating them about the risks and rules of mobile phones and driving.

Alanna Xie

Mentone Girls’ Grammar School, Mentone

A screenshot of Alanna’s ‘About Me’ page of her website. Images demonstrate her Chinese-Australian background, her love for coffee. gardening and her pets.
Alanna Xie created a website to showcase her creative work and hobbies.

Alanna’s Portfolio Website

Website, Adobe Dreamweaver

My website tells a story about my love of drawing, my favourite hobbies and other information about my interests.
The website backgrounds were drawn with the brush tool in Procreate, and the website rollover images were created in Adobe Animate using frame-by-frame animation and saved as animated GIFs. The website is aimed at university selection panels in support of my application for a place in an art and design course.

Wendy Zheng

St Leonard’s College, Brighton

A screenshot of Wendy’s folio showing drawings for the characters of Lian and Lady Fox. They are shown from multiple perspectives.
Wendy Zheng’s folio was selected as an excellent example. Her folio demonstrates the production of an animation that explores the process of buying a gift for your parents.

Find a Gift

Portfolio, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Animate

My animation is a story about how to find the best gift for parents. My purpose is to tell the audience that the best gift in the world is love. Parents don’t usually care about the price of a gift; rather they care about whether or not we use our heart to choose the right gift. I used storyboarding, character design and background design when producing my animation.

Wendy Zheng

St Leonard’s College, Brighton

A screenshot of Wendy’s home page. ‘Wuhan, China’ is written in white across a yellow illustrated background showing people preparing food. A video is shown underneath.
Wendy Zheng’s website is a guide for tourists visiting Wuhan, China.

Wuhan Travel Guide

Website, Adobe Dreamweaver

My website is a simple travel guide to the city Wuhan in China. My purpose is to introduce my hometown to more people with a cute and comfortable drawing. I used processes like conceptualisation and research for getting more ideas.

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