Monday is always better with a sugar / caffeine rush. Alexia welcomed us back into class with boxes of Short Stop donuts (thank you again Alexia!) and a class discussion about the critical piece we were planning to produce. Not only did we get a taste about what will soon to be some of our final pieces for E.A.C studio, but also a valuable feedback session to guide us to a focal point in our pieces.

Knowing me, I couldn’t decide between 2 ideas that I had been tossing up in my head during the mid-semester break:

• Analysing the evolution of music videos. Since when did music videos become so cinematic?
• Is there such thing as a Melbourne sound / music scene? Does it come from the location of Melbourne itself or is representative of the people who listen to certain music?

At this stage, it seems that the music video idea would be an easier route to investigate. However, judging by the discussion in class, it seems that the Melbourne sound idea has more questions that are left to be answered (challenge accepted I guess). If were to develop this as either a writing piece of video essay, I’d mainly focus on artists that have unexpectedly found international success such as Courtney Barnett and King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard.

Wednesday’s grammar session focused on the common errors we made during project brief 3. We recapped on the difference between passive and active voices, the difference between a colon and a semicolon, effect vs. affect, its vs. it’s, and the different types of dashes. As someone who struggles with sentences structure, it provided me with clarification and the importance of simply reading your work out loud can really bring out the editor inside you.