Week 2 Workshop

My first workshop (as illness prevented me from going to the first one) and I’m starting to understand just how practical an RMIT degree structure is. A ton of discussion, brainstorming, filming, editing and collaboration.

In the workshop, whilst deliberating on the introduction of David Gauntlett’s Making Media Studies, we discussed how some implications could be involved in media practice, such as the fact that we should expect to find the most relevant ideas and knowledge in different places. Therefore, collaboration between creators with different insights about media is necessary, and though this is only my first media workshop, I found this whole idea of collaboration within the classroom to be extremely advantageous as it provides a whole range of different interpretations and past experiences that can be useful to your work.

As I hadn’t completed Project Brief 1 when I arrived at our Week 2 Workshop, I couldn’t receive any feedback on what I had done, but instead observe others’ and try and provide some sort of positive or negative reaction. While I find it difficult to present any critical feedback of other student’s work, I think I need to remember it is one important part of collaboration and is sometimes necessary in order to improve.