Week 2 – Digital Director

During Week 2 we learnt about how to become better at pitching our ideas. Mark played us a ‘Talks at Google’ video starring Stephanie Palmer, giving a speech called “Good in a Room”. The video was a step-by-step guide on selling an idea quickly and confidently. I personally struggle with maintaining focus on the audience and not on my script (a fairly common issue) but something that I’ve always wanted to work on. Stephanie’s video showed me a good example of how to be confident. I didn’t notice her once look down at any sort of script or notes that suggests her level of professionalism.

We watched this video as an introduction to our unofficial first assignment that wasn’t assessed but was to create a pitch for Screen Australia. The guidelines for that were more specific than what was required for an actual submission. On the website it stated that “We are looking for pitches that grab our attention, that evidence a story concept that will generate and sustain the dramatic structure of a feature film, online and interactive drama or virtual reality drama installation and one that knows its audience.”. We were also required to submit a cover letter. This weekend I’m planning my idea and will talk more about that in next week’s blog post.