LECTORIAL AKA HOW TO CARRY AROUND EXPENSIVE EQUIPMENT AND FEEL LUSH AND PROFESH

Unfortunately Julia and I didn’t make it to this weeks Lectorial as we were very busy feeling super professional and caring a lot about the camera and tripod we had borrowed from RMIT.

^Here is a picture of me being ~professional~ during PB3, just to give you an idea^

Yesterday we had our first interview with Jess Junor from RMITV. We filmed in the one of the lower ground edit suites at Building 9 and things went really well. Julia had contacted Jess throughout last week and sent her through a copy of our questions and organised the location and time of filming. Jess was lovely and had some really great answers to our questions. The interview went by swimmingly and she even commented on how well we did with the use of the cameras, saying that she was never that confident in her first few weeks at uni using the equipment ~ and look at her now! What can I say Jess, Jasmine taught us!

Earlier today we trekked in the relentless rain, brandishing crap umbrellas all the way to Classic Comics, hidden away somewhere near Pellegrini’s (and trust me, my stomach was rumbling). Alex had organised with the guys from CC to come in for the interview via emails last week. The questions Alex had crafted for the guys were slightly different from the ones Jess had been asked, and although they were tailored to the comic book industry, they still endeavoured to answer the overarching question of our research which is,

What external and internal restrictions influence media institutions, and how does this affect the media they create and the audience they engage?

Both Guiseppe and Jarrod of Classic Comics answered Alex’s questions and I found their input to be pretty interesting, especially for someone who knows absolutely nothing about comic books.

And as if our day hadn’t been ACTION PACKED enough, Julia, Alex and I then loaded up our gear and trekked across to the Standard Hotel in Fitzroy to carry out our next interview with Mark O’Toole, regular flat white drinker at my work and screen writer and producer for the ABC (we’re more concerned with the latter). After arriving and having a celebratory drink for making it unscathed through 3 interviews, Mark met us and we headed up to his office, above the bar. The office was full of memorabilia and the kinds of things a writer would collect in a room, above a ramshackle pub, that he’d been writing in for 15 years.. you could imagine.

This interview went particularly well and Mark had some really interesting things to say about his involvement writing within and for huge media institutions like the ABC. I guess you’ll just have to watch this space to see what he said….