Here we are in Week 4 and things are slowly moving along…
Today’s meeting in class was productive but a little harder than usual as almost half the group was away sick but I’ve kept them informed on what they missed out on.
Our first news is that unfortunately we have had our first rejection from a potential guest. Sue Maslin will be fly to the toronto film festival the day of our seminar! Which is such a shame but she did say that our theme was very important and she wished she could have been there….oh well back to the drawing board.
I put it out to the group who they wanted as a backup for Sue and everyone insisted on contacting Natalie Tran. For those who do not know Natalie, she is a very well known Australian Vlogger. The reason we spoke out to her is because she represents a newer media landscape (online video production) and also she is a freelancer in her work! So that is an interesting field that would be cool to have a representative from! She is also hilarious and a fantastic speaker. If Natalie cannot make it, our next backup will be Corrie Chen! She’s great because she’s a former student in the RMIT Media course, who went onto VCA and now is a filmmaker!
We are still yet to hear from Clementine Ford but fingers crossed we get a reply from Clementine soon, if she cannot do the seminar, we have decided for Clementine’s backup be Celeste Liddle! She is a journalist and a blogger and her work seems very interesting. A great representative for the journalists/professional writer kind of field in the Media Industry.
I am unsure how to approach the social media aspect for the seminar so I put it to the group who was there today, that may be interested in taking on the role of a different social media page for Heroines in Media and didn’t get a great response so I’ll go over that next meeting.
We are still also waiting on mock designs for our poster and again we didn’t get to really discuss other important elements to the seminar such as stage setup and food so I think thats something we really need to get onto next week as we soon will start running out of time….
Lets see how we go next week….