SUCCESS! As hectic as today was I felt it was a great success. I gained valuable knowledge from Clayton Jacobson, Alicia Gleeson and Julian Lucas.

The day started off at 2.30 where the team met at building 9. James, Nat and I needed the candy bar table in building 80 so we lugged the wheeled table across buildings and into the seminar room. I spent the next half an hour just unpacking all the lollies and decorating the candy bar. Luckily Caley brought a mass amount of chocolate so as to fill up the white space with chocolate bars that were aligned based on their type (as you’d see in a regular candy bar at the movies). Caley also brought a range of red bull drinks that her friend had kindly donated from his work so we poured ice into a bucket and put all the drinks in. Unfortunately we turned the popcorn machine on too late to do all 10 packets so Linh and I searched the building for microwaves to pop them. Thankfully we found some on level 9 and popped all the popcorn in time to run downstairs and pour them all into the popcorn cups.

My job was then to be a ‘candy bar lady’ and hand out the popcorn cups during intermission.

I went out and bought everything on my list. I made sure to be conscious of the prices and chose lollies that came in ‘2 for 1’ deals, as I did with the popcorn bags. The total cost came to $35. As discussed earlier with James he would spend $12 on the popcorn machine and $7 on the popcorn cups. This took us up to $54, leaving us with $16 for the gift voucher. This obviously causes a problem so James and I decided it was appropriate to purchase a Cinema Nova membership for $13. This membership has benefits of:

• $11.50 entry for members to opening day sessions (Thursdays) of every new film (excludes advance screenings)
• $15.50 admission to all other sessions of any film ($17 for 3D)
• $16.50 adult admission Saturday night after 5pm
• Exclusive member screening invitations (email address necessary)
• Concession prices for film festivals and special event screenings
• Monthly paid preview screenings.
• $12.50 tickets for students and seniors ($16.50 Sat night, $13 3D)

I decided it was pointless to purchase the lolly jars when we had very little money left so instead I contacted James, Caley and Nat to bring any lolly jars they had at home.

Today the promo vid team shot our film (3pm Building 9). We decided to go with Dominic’s idea:

A theatrical trailer in the style as a typical Hollywood blockbuster. Lot of shots fading to/from black, ominous voiceover being all like “This summer…(except it would be like, this September or whenever the seminar is)”, as well as epic music, possibly even the Star Wars theme or something similar. Visuals can be shots of RMIT campus, shots from films by the guests, behind-the-scenes footage of the guests on set, maybe even media students “learning” how to use camera/sound equipment (like how Luke trains with his light saber). It’s all very fast paced and epic, might even be funny if it ends up looking like a parody of proper trailers.

We struggled a little because there weren’t any empty rooms to film in (our pre requisites were simply (we needed a black wall and space enough to fit the camera, tripod and c stand for the light). Once we settled in however, things smoothly progressed. We filmed close up shots of the camera, of Jim rotating in his chair, of the lights being turned on etc. The rest will be stock footage

Today the promo vid team shot our film (3pm Building 9). We decided to go with Dominic’s idea:

A theatrical trailer in the style as a typical Hollywood blockbuster. Lot of shots fading to/from black, ominous voiceover being all like “This summer…(except it would be like, this September or whenever the seminar is)”, as well as epic music, possibly even the Star Wars theme or something similar. Visuals can be shots of RMIT campus, shots from films by the guests, behind-the-scenes footage of the guests on set, maybe even media students “learning” how to use camera/sound equipment (like how Luke trains with his light saber). It’s all very fast paced and epic, might even be funny if it ends up looking like a parody of proper trailers.

We struggled a little because there weren’t any empty rooms to film in (our pre requisites were simply (we needed a black wall and space enough to fit the camera, tripod and c stand for the light). Once we settled in however, things smoothly progressed. We filmed close up shots of the camera, of Jim rotating in his chair, of the lights being turned on etc. The rest will be stock footage.

We decided on our first guest Anna McLeish, whom James contacted.

After she agreed it was my job to research a little about her and update our Facebook page which will be entitled Media IV – A New Hope. I did some research on Anna’s work history and came up with the following facebook post:

Anna comes from a distribution background and has previously held positions at Walt Disney Pictures and Madman Entertainment where she managed the theatrical division and acquisition, managing release campaigns including Warp Films ‘ This is England’. She launched her development and production company Warp Films, which produced the Cannes award-winning ‘Snowtown’. She was also an executive producer of two chapters in Robert Connolly’s Tim Winton’s ‘The Turning’ and the feature film, ‘Partisan’ featuring Vincent Cassel.

In today’s session we decided I would be in responsible for catering. We discussed foods that would make sense with our ‘film’ theme. We finally came to the conclusion that we ought to create a candy bar with a popcorn machine and chocolates/lollies. It was then my responsibility throughout the week to create a budget. I decided 5 dollars from each individual –which would equate to 70 – would be sufficient enough for:

• 10 x popcorn bag (100g)
• 2 x packet of licorice bullets
• 4 x packets of assorted lollies
• 2 x packet of Jaffers
• White table cloth
• 75 x popcorn cup
• 2 x packets of scoopers (4 in 1)
• Popcorn machine (James’ suggestion) – $12
• Nat to bring fruit platter

I informed the group of the five dollars they each needed to transfer so that I may go and buy everything.

Unfortunately I was in America the past two weeks (4+5)… so

We spent this week discussing ideas for the promotional vid. So Dom, Tan, Chris and I decided we’d create a Google folder for this particular video. Here we posted our ideas and each through their two cents in.

Session 1 (Week 3)

Soooo we were asked to choose a group in which we will work for the rest of the semester to create a seminar featuring members of that particular industry! We had options but let’s be honest, I was dying to pick Film given it was my major and the field I am most interested in. We were shuffled over into groups based on our choice of field and luckily we decided to present in week 9 of this semester, so that meant we had a decent amount of time to prepare. The first step we as a team decided: MAKE A FACEBOOK GROUP.

Our entire course theme was the ‘journey’ so we spoke about the notion of how, often many industry members shift from job to job with different requirements in the industry (say producer, turned director, who was once a boom mic holder).

The idea here is that we have a single communicative platform so that we stay united and can liaise with other team members. We then decided to allocate some responsibility and I jumped on the film promo video for the seminar. At this point we hadn’t establish many of the jobs so we all slotted ourselves into broader categories until we delved more into the project and new jobs cam up.