Firstly, I’d like to express how thrilled I am to be back at uni (note: this is not sarcasm). My mind was not being exercised enough over my break, and I was beginning to feel like I was going a little bit crazy. I did begin working on an experimental film project with a few friends from my hometown (one who was visiting, and some who have moved here, but intends on moving here in the near future). It was good to get the ball rolling with this, we began brainstorming about a month back and actually managed to get around 2/3 of the proposed shoots done. In doing that, I felt like I was able to ease myself back into my media-mind again! Now here I am, back at RMIT for my final year and lunging into a studio focused on something other than film this time round, a studio all about radio!

Radio had been something I had veered away from while practicing media because I have always thought about how anxious I’d be on air! However, after being selected for this studio, and listening to radio more while at work and over the holidays I realised it would actually be really fun to get involved. As well as understanding the enjoyable aspect in hosting, today I also factored in how there were other roles in this Triple R based radio studio – such as producing! I want to attempt to get a feel of as many aspects in radio during this studio, that’s an ideal situation.

Knowing that this is not the first time that this studio has run and seeing our tutor, Bruce Berryman, is exuberant in nature, passionate about radio and has been in the industry for several years – all of these aspects combined have piled up to cause me to have… a BRILLIANT feeling about this class. I’m really excited and I’ve also had a few friends who have done the studio who came out of it really pleased with what they’d learnt and produced.

For next week’s class we’re required to come up with a few interview ideas for a demo tape we’d make with a group of around 5. We’ve been asked to think of some interesting subjects we may know and try to stray from bands, as they’re often interviewed on Triple R. We’ve got to mix it up some more and create content people will be keen to tune in to! I’m yet to brainstorm, but you’ll see a brainstorming post in the next few days!