Week 2: My group is running the TV seminar.
It’s a group of 12 people which is the biggest group for a collaborative work piece that I’ve ever had before.
I’m the communication point between the Steering Committee and our group – which is great. I think it’ll probably mean I do a lot of the delegating and managing within the group which is fine by me.
There are some interesting things we could explore in the seminar – my particular interests center around:
- commercial v government v community tv stations
- working with external production companies – the ties and connections between production houses and networks (how does one move between the two?)
- getting into the commercial industry
- commissioning ads and ad time on tv
- attention economies and the shift towards hyper attention on the medium screen – how has this reframed the work that you do?
- Sponsorship and the industry — where does the majority of the money actually come from?
I think that a really interesting question to ask our guests would be: when you were younger, what did you want to do with your life? I’m always interested in seeing if people followed a similar trail or if they have flitted between disciplines.
To make sure our group stays on track I’ve:
- started this doodle poll to see when everyone is free to meetup (face to face or via skype/phone)
- started a Facebook group for general discussion and voting on title of the seminar (except one of our group members doesn’t have facebook so I’m going to create a Trello board for us to use to assign tasks and follow up on what is getting done)
- made a contact details spreadsheet on google drive for everyone to fill in
- created a shared google drive folder and downloaded most of the information on blackboard regarding the seminar into it
- emailed the group outlining the things they should do (join fb group, fill out details, vote on title)