BrainStorming Artefacts

In todays tutorial we were able to get together and share our research.  For my articles I found that the programming of LBGT festivals to be a interesting because it showed how the organisation of the festivals could inform and define the collective “we” within in the audience. The article which can be found here  also includes missions statements an information about the film festivals, which is not only informative but provides us with an idea of how to start our research. Georgina also suggested how it was interesting to see if film festivals should be seen as a business or  something for the community which I feel also fits when looking at programming.

When braining storming for our artefact, Emily suggested doing a snappy news reel, that talks current film festivals about how programming is being used to capture each audience. We continued our brain storming coming up with ideas such as; podcasts of interviews, vlogs of our film festival experiences, a feature article, a program of the festival involving the same tongue and cheek tactics involved in the news reel.  We also considered establishing a hashtag on twitter where people can share there experience attending certain festivals exploring why they went and how they enjoyed it.

Overall we all really enjoyed the news reel idea and have decided to pursue it by Tuesday next week we are all expected to come up with a script and ideas surrounding a film festivals program and how their trying to capture audiences.

Mindmaping

Brainstorming done in todays tutorial about institutions.  We as a group started with the two institutions that interested us, Cinema and Network TV. We began to list different forms of cinema and tv and connect issues to them under: economical, political, cultural and social brackets. Some of the ideas and issues we came up with are:

– What are the benefits of watching movies at an institution?
– Censorship and cultural control
– How cinema is used to breach cultural gaps
– How cinema uses it’s practice to target it’s audience

From here after a discussion with Dan we were able to narrow down our focus and look at how Film Festivals as an institution capture a lot of the ideas we were toying with above. We as a group are looking at how Film Festivals are an institution and what role they play politically, culturally and socially. A good starting point for us, when looking for articles would looking at how film festivals are defined as institutions, what they afford and prohibit their audiences or a good case study of how film festivals are used in Melbourne to cover the four main issues we’ve identified.

To start we’re each going to look at least five articles around film festivals before we meet on Tuesday where we will then see what we’ve found and what we can add. Overall I’m pleased with how well we all worked as a group today and excited to continue our brief.