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Absolutely, with WA becoming quite the hub of film production in recent times, we've decided to dig a bit deeper with this news series how to make It Stick with Brian You'll make You a Star, And we're going to start at the beginning where it does start for a lot of people today. Whopper the West Australian Academy of Performing Arts and doctor Renee Newman is the Associate.

Absolutely, with WA becoming quite the hub of film production in recent times, we've decided to dig a bit deeper with this news series how to make It Stick with Brian You'll make You a Star, And we're going to start at the beginning where it does start for a lot of people today. Whopper the West Australian Academy of Performing Arts and doctor Renee Newman is the Associate.

Dean at WHOPPER and joins us. Good morning, welcome, Hi, Hi, thanks so much for having me.

Dean at WHOPPER and joins us. Good morning, welcome, Hi, Hi, thanks so much for having me.

Thanks so much for joining us, and congratulations on having one of the most amazing performing arts schools around on the planet.

Thanks so much for joining us, and congratulations on having one of the most amazing performing arts schools around on the planet.

Yeah. Yeah, it's a pretty amazing place to work and be surrounded by these extraordinary students and stuff.

Yeah. Yeah, it's a pretty amazing place to work and be surrounded by these extraordinary students and stuff.

Bet it is how long has WOPPER been around for now?

Bet it is how long has WOPPER been around for now?

Okay, so we've been part of its us said he is that we actually go back a little bit further than that, So we've been around for quite a while. Yeah, and we have, you know, like the most comprehensive performing arts training program in Australia. So we go you know, across music dance, acting, music, theater, Arts and cultural management. We have production and design, we have performing arts. So many different programs on offer.

Okay, so we've been part of its us said he is that we actually go back a little bit further than that, So we've been around for quite a while. Yeah, and we have, you know, like the most comprehensive performing arts training program in Australia. So we go you know, across music dance, acting, music, theater, Arts and cultural management. We have production and design, we have performing arts. So many different programs on offer.

I'm sure it's evolved over the year, Rede. But what about the courses and the pathways for potential whopper students?

I'm sure it's evolved over the year, Rede. But what about the courses and the pathways for potential whopper students?

Yeah?

Yeah?

What can they say? One are the what's on offer for them that can help them click that next step?

What can they say? One are the what's on offer for them that can help them click that next step?

Yeah? Yeah, okay. So we've got our VET Vocational Education training programs, so diploma and advanced diploma. We've got to set for in Aboriginal performance. The VT programs go across music, dance, acting for screen performance as well as music, theater, live production and Technical services, which is what covers our production and design. So that might be lighting and sound or costume, it could be set in prop, scenery and so on. Then you have the High ED, which is the Bachelor of Art in Acting, MP, music, Theater, sorry dance. We also have a Bachelor of Performing Arts which is performance making, which is kind of like where you learn to be a writer, a director, an actor, but also to make new and original devised performance. So it's the news stories that they're coming through. Yes, so there's a whole range. And Arts and Cultural Management, which is also where you know, we have our cultural leaders coming through the new CEOs of the arts companies and the opera and so on. So that real extraordinary way of understanding that whole facet of how to make great art.

Yeah? Yeah, okay. So we've got our VET Vocational Education training programs, so diploma and advanced diploma. We've got to set for in Aboriginal performance. The VT programs go across music, dance, acting for screen performance as well as music, theater, live production and Technical services, which is what covers our production and design. So that might be lighting and sound or costume, it could be set in prop, scenery and so on. Then you have the High ED, which is the Bachelor of Art in Acting, MP, music, Theater, sorry dance. We also have a Bachelor of Performing Arts which is performance making, which is kind of like where you learn to be a writer, a director, an actor, but also to make new and original devised performance. So it's the news stories that they're coming through. Yes, so there's a whole range. And Arts and Cultural Management, which is also where you know, we have our cultural leaders coming through the new CEOs of the arts companies and the opera and so on. So that real extraordinary way of understanding that whole facet of how to make great art.

So if you're someone in high school now you're coming up to, you know, year eleven and twelve, and you're thinking, I really would like to go to whopper after I finish up with a school. What do they need to keep in mind? Will there be an audition process as well as you know, having to get a certain aggregate and that sort of thing.

So if you're someone in high school now you're coming up to, you know, year eleven and twelve, and you're thinking, I really would like to go to whopper after I finish up with a school. What do they need to keep in mind? Will there be an audition process as well as you know, having to get a certain aggregate and that sort of thing.

Well, yes, So it's interesting actually because some of our programs require ATA, others don't. Yeah, and some of our programs require audition, others don't. So it's sometimes it's an interview process. It just depends. I think what's always wise is that if you're a school leaver you might be really interested in a diploma to actually sort of start off and see where your interest lies. You can of course audition and go straight into a bachelor program as well, but it's a matter of just actually checking out the information and going what's best for me right now, you know, and having a conversation. So we've got a lot of information on the website, on the Whopper website about what's required if it's an audition based entry, if it's interview. There's all the information there, including basic entrends as well, because you know, WAPPER is part of ECU Aedithtown University, so we do have those entrance requirements as well for getting into a university. So yeah, there's also some videos on there for students to be able to have a look at and see what might be required to do. That. Audition is clearly, you know, a complex thing, right, of course, they're hard men, they're all so exciting and they're a really important part of the process, right is to kind of go through that stage I suppose and testing out your skills in an audition setting. Yeah, so there's heaps of information for a school level or for anyone for that matter, who are interested in actually applying to go to Whopper, whether that be to jazz for example, or you know, classical performance or acting the program.

Well, yes, So it's interesting actually because some of our programs require ATA, others don't. Yeah, and some of our programs require audition, others don't. So it's sometimes it's an interview process. It just depends. I think what's always wise is that if you're a school leaver you might be really interested in a diploma to actually sort of start off and see where your interest lies. You can of course audition and go straight into a bachelor program as well, but it's a matter of just actually checking out the information and going what's best for me right now, you know, and having a conversation. So we've got a lot of information on the website, on the Whopper website about what's required if it's an audition based entry, if it's interview. There's all the information there, including basic entrends as well, because you know, WAPPER is part of ECU Aedithtown University, so we do have those entrance requirements as well for getting into a university. So yeah, there's also some videos on there for students to be able to have a look at and see what might be required to do. That. Audition is clearly, you know, a complex thing, right, of course, they're hard men, they're all so exciting and they're a really important part of the process, right is to kind of go through that stage I suppose and testing out your skills in an audition setting. Yeah, so there's heaps of information for a school level or for anyone for that matter, who are interested in actually applying to go to Whopper, whether that be to jazz for example, or you know, classical performance or acting the program.

Yeah, Renee, there's probably nothing more thrilling for people, you know, a group like Whopper, an organization like Whopper to see someone like a Hugh Jackman get plucked out pretty much before he was on TV, but pretty much before it finished, right they quite some of them so talented and they just demand, you know, a bright light on them even before right at the end of the course or sometimes before the end.

Yeah, Renee, there's probably nothing more thrilling for people, you know, a group like Whopper, an organization like Whopper to see someone like a Hugh Jackman get plucked out pretty much before he was on TV, but pretty much before it finished, right they quite some of them so talented and they just demand, you know, a bright light on them even before right at the end of the course or sometimes before the end.

Yeah, sometimes it happens, and you know and like we've got of course, I'm so proud of you, and we're so proud of all of our grounds. Really it is that thing of you know, we try to counsel our students in a way of what is best for them moving through their degree, moving through their study, knowing as well that that full program is really important. But I think what's really exciting about WAPER as well, as we have many courses that have what's called WILL or work integrated learning, so you know, during your course you'll have an opportunity to go work inside that industry in some capacity, whether that be you know, in an event space or arts and cultural management students going and doing the coon, mental dance students doing to commenting in an overseas location somewhere. You know, there's all of these opportunities to actually be part of the industry while you're studying, and while you have that support of the University of the Academy and so it's so Yes, it's so exciting when we have those graduates to then get picked up straight away. But I think also we've got this huge jackments, We've got the day courtneys, We've got all these fabulous, fabulous stars, right Yeah, But we also have Rachel d'es who is an amazing local composer, seeing a songwriter artist who is just as comfortable creating a beautiful sound design for a theater production for Black Swan as she is for Maxine Doyle who's at punch Drunk. You know. So there's hundreds of graduates who are working at every level there are.

Yeah, sometimes it happens, and you know and like we've got of course, I'm so proud of you, and we're so proud of all of our grounds. Really it is that thing of you know, we try to counsel our students in a way of what is best for them moving through their degree, moving through their study, knowing as well that that full program is really important. But I think what's really exciting about WAPER as well, as we have many courses that have what's called WILL or work integrated learning, so you know, during your course you'll have an opportunity to go work inside that industry in some capacity, whether that be you know, in an event space or arts and cultural management students going and doing the coon, mental dance students doing to commenting in an overseas location somewhere. You know, there's all of these opportunities to actually be part of the industry while you're studying, and while you have that support of the University of the Academy and so it's so Yes, it's so exciting when we have those graduates to then get picked up straight away. But I think also we've got this huge jackments, We've got the day courtneys, We've got all these fabulous, fabulous stars, right Yeah, But we also have Rachel d'es who is an amazing local composer, seeing a songwriter artist who is just as comfortable creating a beautiful sound design for a theater production for Black Swan as she is for Maxine Doyle who's at punch Drunk. You know. So there's hundreds of graduates who are working at every level there are.

Yeah, there is no doubt. It's renowned people. I mean even people studying at other places like Nier and stuff are doing it with a night, are hopefully getting into Wopper afterwards. And when you've spoken to a lot of these alums over the years, and we have asked many of them what do they think is the secret that sets Whopper apart? And some of them Renee have cited the remoteness of Way as giving them an opportunity to really focus on honing their craft without any of that sort of Sydney Melbourne chatter that you can get sometimes absolutely.

Yeah, there is no doubt. It's renowned people. I mean even people studying at other places like Nier and stuff are doing it with a night, are hopefully getting into Wopper afterwards. And when you've spoken to a lot of these alums over the years, and we have asked many of them what do they think is the secret that sets Whopper apart? And some of them Renee have cited the remoteness of Way as giving them an opportunity to really focus on honing their craft without any of that sort of Sydney Melbourne chatter that you can get sometimes absolutely.

I totally agree with that. I think sometimes we actually think of our geographic isolation has been some you know, fodder for an imposter syndrome, you know, someone able to kind of to really do incredibly well. And I think there is something about that isolation that allows us to play, to actually do that necessary learning and that necessary perhaps failure, you know, to actually how do we do this and how can we do it really well and learn from it? Because it's the learning that will allow us to actually have a sustainable career. And that's what we're all interested in, right, We're all interested in that workforce. Yeah, just actually be able.

I totally agree with that. I think sometimes we actually think of our geographic isolation has been some you know, fodder for an imposter syndrome, you know, someone able to kind of to really do incredibly well. And I think there is something about that isolation that allows us to play, to actually do that necessary learning and that necessary perhaps failure, you know, to actually how do we do this and how can we do it really well and learn from it? Because it's the learning that will allow us to actually have a sustainable career. And that's what we're all interested in, right, We're all interested in that workforce. Yeah, just actually be able.

To go beyond that next gig or what happens when you are creating your own next gig, as well as waiting for your agent to call, you know, because that's what we want, is someone who's able to actually move, adapt, be resilient and actually just be part of that next generation of Australian stories. Right, whether you are the actor or you're in art direction and you're making the costumes, you know, we want that person who's able to sort of move and do well.

To go beyond that next gig or what happens when you are creating your own next gig, as well as waiting for your agent to call, you know, because that's what we want, is someone who's able to actually move, adapt, be resilient and actually just be part of that next generation of Australian stories. Right, whether you are the actor or you're in art direction and you're making the costumes, you know, we want that person who's able to sort of move and do well.

And I think there's something about Perth that you're right, it's away from the big agents or the bigger end of town industry. That is incredibly thrilling. But also you get to play, You get to really really way and find your way through it. And I think that's probably what they're talking about.

And I think there's something about Perth that you're right, it's away from the big agents or the bigger end of town industry. That is incredibly thrilling. But also you get to play, You get to really really way and find your way through it. And I think that's probably what they're talking about.

Yeah, and so many players having seen Chicago Tina Turnatives a couple of shows in the last two months, and I'm a program and it's all go through the program and my wife, how many Whopper grads are here? You can see the list and it's.

Yeah, and so many players having seen Chicago Tina Turnatives a couple of shows in the last two months, and I'm a program and it's all go through the program and my wife, how many Whopper grads are here? You can see the list and it's.

It's like a playbill. Yeah, exactly.

It's like a playbill. Yeah, exactly.

Yeah, you must, you must be proud of that and then everyone there, Yeah.

Yeah, you must, you must be proud of that and then everyone there, Yeah.

Yeah, absolutely, Yeah, there is definitely there has definitely been a big number of you know, movies, TV being made here just recently.

Yeah, absolutely, Yeah, there is definitely there has definitely been a big number of you know, movies, TV being made here just recently.

Has that Does that give a bit of a sort of an extra excitement vibe around Whopper about totally?

Has that Does that give a bit of a sort of an extra excitement vibe around Whopper about totally?

Yeah. And of course, you know, we're eagerly waiting the launch of the Press Film studios as well as Yes, yeah, city Campus. It's all happening happening at the same time, so you know, it feels transformative. It feels like we're all part of a transformation process and the City Campus is really going to be that as well. You know, right in the past spectacular of the of the cities. So we have you know, we've got the CBD, we've got the Arts Precinct and right there as our maid and we're part of that. They are our neighbors. So it's very exciting to know that we're going to have this. I think the way they refer to it is because it's the equivalent of sixteen stories and we've got eleven superstories and that's to capture the amazing theaters that will be well and it's the most densely packed vertical set of vertical storage theaters. So it is a really exciting time and the person Film Studios feeds into that as well, so we know that they will be people interested to come and use our extraordinary locations, you know, to our coastline, our weather, I meant remarkable. Yeah, And so we need a workforce for that, right. We need the people who can create the sets and props and scenery. We need the costume makers, we need we need the active and we need to be able to have that industry that can encourage people to come back to Perth yep, to encourage people to stay in Perth, you know, to be part of that workforce, and I think this is exciting for all of us.

Yeah. And of course, you know, we're eagerly waiting the launch of the Press Film studios as well as Yes, yeah, city Campus. It's all happening happening at the same time, so you know, it feels transformative. It feels like we're all part of a transformation process and the City Campus is really going to be that as well. You know, right in the past spectacular of the of the cities. So we have you know, we've got the CBD, we've got the Arts Precinct and right there as our maid and we're part of that. They are our neighbors. So it's very exciting to know that we're going to have this. I think the way they refer to it is because it's the equivalent of sixteen stories and we've got eleven superstories and that's to capture the amazing theaters that will be well and it's the most densely packed vertical set of vertical storage theaters. So it is a really exciting time and the person Film Studios feeds into that as well, so we know that they will be people interested to come and use our extraordinary locations, you know, to our coastline, our weather, I meant remarkable. Yeah, And so we need a workforce for that, right. We need the people who can create the sets and props and scenery. We need the costume makers, we need we need the active and we need to be able to have that industry that can encourage people to come back to Perth yep, to encourage people to stay in Perth, you know, to be part of that workforce, and I think this is exciting for all of us.

It is a very exciting time. In fact, we're going to talk to the Arts Minister tomorrow about the Malaga filst Studios and we I mean, I'm pretty parochial, but we are so proud of Whopper, great work that happens there, and we love the you know, the triple threats that you continue to pump out every year. So great to talk to you this morning, doctor, and I oh, thank you for having me.

It is a very exciting time. In fact, we're going to talk to the Arts Minister tomorrow about the Malaga filst Studios and we I mean, I'm pretty parochial, but we are so proud of Whopper, great work that happens there, and we love the you know, the triple threats that you continue to pump out every year. So great to talk to you this morning, doctor, and I oh, thank you for having me.

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