Todays tutorial was spent discussing our ideas and artefact for project brief 4. After finishing our annotated bibliographies, a long winded task that is now eventually finished, we shared what we had found – following on from our meeting that we had last week, realising again that we had three different areas of research integrated nicely. After much discussion and deliberation, we have seemingly come to a group decision that we would like to focus on programming of film festivals and how it is used to capture audiences. As a group, we are extremely interested in the manner programs are used to control and influence audiences, through advertising their films, usually in particular categories and genres.

With our artefact, we have decided that we are interested in creating a small news snippet type video, edgy and interesting, that links to the format of films in film festivals whilst almost reporting on the ins and outs of specific festivals. In this, we look to describe, analyse and recommend festivals, mainly based on the wants and needs of an audience. This taps into the field that I have researched greatly – the battle between the “business” model and “audience” model of film festivals.

Our other ideas consist of; a podcast, vlogs, a feature article or a program itself – this list is a work in progress, consisting of our other ideas of what we can execute. By our next meeting as a group we aim to have prototypes of scripts and ideas to get our work moving from the bland researching stage that its currently in.