Tuesday- 26th April

First meeting: 1 hour

• First look at the collaborative contract
• Talked about all of us gathering information about audiences- bringing it back on Thursday and we can see if we have differences to talk about for each form of essay: audio and video
• Research what an audio essay is
• Research what a video essay is
• We looked at our collaborative contract and had a discussion on what we wanted to achieve within our essays
• Diary= yourself as an audience – there is always an audience
• “If a tree falls in the woods and no one is around to hear it, did it still make a noise?”
• We wrote out our goals in our collaborative contract
• Borrow appropriate equipment from RMIT – by week 11
• Decided to assign some tasks for this week:

Research audio/ video essays- Compile 3 sources on each (with notes)- for annotated bibliography-  write 500 words on audience for each video/audio essay

• We all work on the same information- evenly collaborating and on our Thursday meeting bring all of our research together and compile it into something cohesive
• Audience doesn’t have to be entertainment – phones require audience

Constraints-

Audio Essay:

• Atmospheric sounds (found footage)
• Voice over (created footage)
• Radio (found footage)
• Spot sounds of the computer and texting on phone etc (created footage)
• Copyright free music (found footage)

Quoted footage (found footage)

Video Essay:

• Voice over (created footage)
• Old fashion footage (found footage)
• Different types of audience (found footage)
• Technology (created footage)
• Old fashion count down on film reel (found footage)
• Recorded video (created footage
• Sound (found and created footage)

* By Thursday- decide on what we want to focus on in each essay i.e. what aspect of audience