Introducing RMIT University

RMIT University

A global university of technology and design.

(Transcript with notations)

Soft instrumental music plays.

VISUAL: RMIT University. A global university of technology and design. RMIT University logo.

VISUAL: Camera is looking at RMIT's Swanston Academic Building from street level at the intersection of Victoria and Franklin Streets. A sped up timelapse of trams, vehicles and pedestrians as blurs crossing at the intersection in front of the building.

Male narrator: In a world where the divide between regions is shrinking, 

VISUAL: Camera is looking at RMIT's Swanston Academic Building from across Swanston Street. A sped up timelapse of blurred trams stopping and pedestrians alighting, and pedestrians walking on the opposite footpath.

Male narrator: Populations are growing, and businesses span across countries.

VISUAL: Camera is looking at the south Swanston Street entrance of RMIT's Swanston Academic Building from street level. A sped up timelapse of blurred people entering and exiting the building.

Male narrator: RMIT is looking ahead to meet the needs of an increasingly international workforce.

VISUAL: Fade to black.

VISUAL: A map of Australia and New Zealand. A marker over Melbourne with arrow. Text from arrow reads Melbourne City, Brunswick, Bundoora.

Female narrator: With campuses in Australia.

VISUAL: A world map with a marker over Vietnam. Text next to marker reads Vietnam Ho Chi Minh, Hanoi.

Female narrator: and Vietnam.

VISUAL: The word Barcelona in large all caps red font rises from the bottom of the screen and stops in the centre of the screen.

Female narrator: a centre in Barcelona.

VISUAL: The word Barcelona moves to the left of the screen. The words Singapore, Indonesia and Germany appear underneath it.

Female narrator: and teaching partners in Singapore, Indonesia, Germany.

VISUAL: The words Barcelona, Singapore, Indonesia and Germany rotate 90 degrees to the left so they are vertical. The word China in large grey font slides in from the left of screen and sits under the other words.

Female narrator: and mainland China.

VISUAL: Fade to black.

VISUAL: A greyscale globe with Australia at the left and New Zealand at the right. Three mall circles appear in the middle of the globe and expand to sit on the outside edge of the globe.

Female narrator: Researchers and students are able to access.

VISUAL: In large red font the words The Best drop down from the top left of the screen and stay at the top left. Followed by a new line with the words The World and a third line with the words Has To.

Female narrator: the best that the world

VISUAL: IN large white font the word Offer rises above from the bottom left of the screen to meet the words The Best The World Has To Offer.

Female narrator: has to offer.

VISUAL: Two students, one female on the left and one male on the right in white lab coats stand in front of a large cabinet of drawers and behind a desk with scales and plastic containers filled with dried plant material.

Male narrator: Our students, staff and alumni are achievers.

VISUAL: A closeup of the male student measuring dried plant material on scales. He is wearing white gloves.

Female narrator: Take our researchers, who are working to solve practical problems in five key areas including

VISUAL: View of hands and forearms holding a metal plate over. The hands are covered in black gloves.

Female narrator: Designing the future.

VISUAL: A machine with yellow and black exterior stands in a small room with white walls punctuated by regular black dots.

Male narrator: Smart technology solutions.

VISUAL: Three cyclists with helmets, a male on the left and female in the middle face the camera. A third cyclist has their back to the camera.

Female narrator: Improving health and lifestyle.

VISUAL: Two students, one male on the left, one female on the right, stand in front of a brown river that is flowing qiuckly. Green trees and grass are on the other side of the river. The male student is holding an instrument.

Female narrator: Sustainability and climate change.

VISUAL: An aerial view of a large denselly populated city at night.

Female narrator: And the future of cities.

VISUAL: Fade to black.

VISUAL: An aerial view of the RMIT Melbourne City campus. The camera moves over the Francis Ormond Building.

Female narrator: The diversity of staff, students and research and the global spread of RMIT’s campuses and partners is pretty impressive when you consider it started in 1887 as a working men’s college in one building in Melbourne with just a few hundred students.

VISUAL: A person wearing black walks past the camera, behind them two students sit on red beanbags. A male student on the left wears a bule shirt and is talking to a female student in the centre wearing a red shirt.

Male narrator: Now RMIT has more than 82,000 students.

VISUAL: The camera moves across a shot of three students eating icecreams.

VISUAL: Students are sitting in Alumni Courtyard in groups, some are wearing red tshirts.

Male narrator: including 12,000 at postgraduate level. Of those, 18 per cent are international students in Australia.

VISUAL: A group of students are standing in a large white tent, two female students smile at the camera.

Female narrator: 16 per cent are international students outside Australia.

VISUAL: Students sitting in a classroom, a student in a red shirt is in the foreground.

Female narrator: And 11 per cent are studying with us at RMIT Vietnam.

VISUAL: Fade to black.

VISUAL: The camera focusses on a black sign on the right of the screen with the RMIT logo.

Male narrator: RMIT’s new Vice-Chancellor Martin Bean.

VISUAL: Martin Bean in profile from the left side speaking into a microphone.

Male narrator: will lead RMIT on the next stage of its development.

VISUAL: Martin Bean speaks into a microphone, the camera is positioned to his left further to the front and zoomed out from the previous shot.

Female narrator: Previously Vice-Chancellor of The Open University.

VISUAL: Members of the audience listening to Martin Bean speak. Two males are in the middle and centre, a female slightly out of focus is on the right.

Female narrator: the UK’s largest academic institution.

VISUAL: Martin Bean in profile from the left side speaking into a microphone. Martin raises his left hand to make a point.

Female narrator: and ex-General Manager of Microsoft’s Worldwide Education Products Group.

VISUAL: The camera focusses on a black sign on the right of the screen with the RMIT logo. An out of focus figure wearing black is on the left.

Female narrator: Martin Bean is well placed to lead this 5 star QS ranked university.

VISUAL: Fade to black.

VISUAL: The camera moves along from left to right along the internal facade of RMIT Design Hub, showing glass circles and a grey sky behind them.

VISUAL: The words 32nd in the world with an asterisk at the end  appear in white font at the left of the screen and fade out. 

VISUAL: An asterisk at the start of the words 2014 QS World University Rankings appear in white font at the bottom right of the screen and fade out. 

VISUAL: The words Top 15 appear in white font at the right of the screen. 

Male narrator: RMIT is not only 32nd in the world among universities under 50 years old, but in the top 15 Universities in Australia.

VISUAL: Fade to black.

VISUAL: The camera moves across the top of the exterior of Swanston Academic Building from left to right, the sky behind the building is bright blue.

VISUAL: The words Top 100 appear in white font at the left of the screen and fade out. 

VISUAL: The words Electircal Engineering appear in white font at the bottom right of the screen and fade out. 

VISUAL: The words Mechanical Engineering appear in white font at the left of the screen and fade out. 

VISUAL: The words Accounting and Finance appear in white font at the bottom left of the screen and fade out. 

VISUAL: The words Computer Science and Information Systems appear in white font in the middle of the screen and fade out. 

Female narrator: It’s also among the world’s top 100 universities in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Accounting and Finance, and Computer Science and Information systems.

VISUAL: Fade to black.

VISUAL: A person's hands in blue gloves on the right of the screen use a pipette to move red liquid from a container on the right of screen into a petrie dish.

Male narrator: RMIT’s research is considered above world standard.

VISUAL: Fade to black.

VISUAL: A person in a white lab coat and white gloves holds dried plant material with their right hand and lets it fall out of their hand.

Male narrator: in 19 disciplines.

VISUAL: Fade to black.

VISUAL: The camera moves forward inbetween two black columns into the courtyard of RMIT Design Hub.

Female narrator: Architecture.

VISUAL: A beaker half filled with a swirling vortex of green liquid.

Female narrator: Clinical Sciences.

VISUAL: The camera zooms out of a human face and torso that is painted to represent the nervous and circularory systems. The person stands in front of a black background.

Female narrator: and Human Movement and Sports Science Research is considered “well above world standard”.

VISUAL: Fade to black.

VISUAL: Three male students are sitting at a desk facing the camera, looking at and discussing their study papers on the desk.

Male narrator: But, most importantly, it’s the people who make RMIT.

VISUAL: RMIT staff in academic gowns walk past an RMIT Melbourne City campus building.

Male narrator: More than 50% of RMIT’s academics were born outside Australia.

VISUAL: A round red ballon with a white RMIT logo sits in the centre of screen in front of a blue sky background.

Female narrator: Creating long lasting global networks that continue to foster a unique array of strong industry connections and research partnerships.

VISUAL: Fade to black.

VISUAL: Camera at street level shows the feet and legs of students dressed for graduation walking from left to right of screen.

Female narrator: RMIT is also 79th in the world for employer reputation. 

VISUAL: RMIT graduating students walk along Swanston Street.

Female narrator: Our 300,000 strong alumni community is testament to that.

VISUAL: Aerial camera moves along top of RMIT Bundoora building.

Female narrator: It’s RMIT’s innovation, industry connections and research opportunities that make it stand out as a global university of technology and design. 

VISUAL: In the centre of the screen on a white background: RMIT University. And underneath that: www.rmit.edu.au (both are written in blacktext). In tiny black text at the bottom of the screen: The video features the track "Momentum" by Peter McIsaac Music, used with permission.

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