Digital production

The Centre for Academic Development has a Digital Production team which can assist staff to renew and enhance course material, produce high-end diagrams, videos, animations and high quality digital narratives. Scoping and project planning is a joint venture, and our staff will take care of the shoot for you using professional studio and production equipment. We will also provide you with technical expertise and editorial advice throughout post production stage.

Working with our Digital Production team is like having a full digital creative team by your side. We provide high-quality digital design and video production support primarily for learning and teaching – more specifically – servicing academic and professional staff who engage directly with our students.

Are you a staff member or student interested in acting or want to volunteer? Contact us

Graphic design and interactive resource services

Our Digital Designer can improve your course material, providing quality and clarity to support your students’ learning styles.

Services include:

  • Flowcharts and diagrams
  • Template files for student posters
  • Interactive PDF worksheets and booklets
  • Images and graphics for Moodle courses
  • Custom designed interactive H5P graphics
  • Instructional booklets
  • Infographics
  • Learning objects based on a concept

Video and animation services

The Digital Production team supports staff to film & edit various types of high quality video projects. Scoping and project planning is a joint venture, the team will take care of the production component for you to produce exciting learning materials.

Services include:

  • Skills set or instructional video
  • Educational short films
  • Documentaries
  • Animation or visual FX

Pre-production services include:

Our team also have the skills to assist with pre-production services for large video projects, such as:

  • Planning documentation in line with course ILOs (with assistance from the institute Learning Designer)
  • Script assistance
  • Budget management
  • Casting actors
  • Scouting locations
  • Props and wardrobe
  • Creating and managing schedules
  • On set management

Digital narrative services

  • The Digital Production team have created a number of Digital narratives, from small scale (12 videos, 6 actors and 1 location) to large scale (20 videos, 54 actors and 20 locations)
  • Planning documentation in line with course ILOs (with assistance from the institute Learning Designer)
  • Pre-Production services
    • Scoping
    • Script assistance
    • Budget management
    • Casting actors
    • Scouting locations
    • Props and wardrobe
    • Creating and managing schedules
    • On set management
  • On set filming production with academics and/or actors
  • Editing footage into scenarios
  • Development of supporting resources such as character biographies etc within Moodle.

View the "Portfolio" tab to view the Digital narrative trailers. Feel free to contact us to view all digital narratives videos for use in courses.

Audio services

The Digital Production team have the skills to assist staff with audio recording. The team also have access to a sound booth to record audio and develop projects such as podcast series.

To record audio, we recommend using a program available through the Software Center called "Audacity".

Portfolio work

Digital narrative portfolio:

Educational short films:

Instructional videos:

Animation and visual FX

Documentaries and support:

Promotional or placement:

Resources and downloads

The Digital Production team can assist staff with the three stages of video development; pre-production (planning your video), production (shooting the footage) and editing (creating the final product). Here are some useful resources to assist with you when working with our team.

Working with our team

  1. Feel free to contact Jaimee Westin (Graphic design / Digital narratives) or Eammon Jones (Video / Animation / Audio) to discuss your idea
  2. Complete the Service Agreement / Brief (pdf, 1.4mb) and email it to Jaimee Westin and Eammon Jones.

Note: The Digital Production team has a primary focus of creating learning and teaching material to support the Learning and Teaching success plan. For all all marketing videos, please contact the Marketing department. Requests for all work should must be accompanied by a detailed brief in order to determine capacity and timelines. We can provide advice on additional resourcing (staff and/or equipment) in order to cater for these requests. Due to staffing limitations, scoping documents and all required materials (images, audio, canned footage) must be gathered during the pre-production stage and prior to the commencement of any further work. Filming on the Mt Helen Campus is preferable, however filming on other campuses can be discussed on a case-by-case basis.