So on Thursday last week we were pushed into our groups to kickstart the creative process for our final studio presentation. I was first with my set/props/costume/beauty group the first creative decision we had to make was which desk. However I couldn’t stay for majority of the group discussion as I was also part of another group which is the marketing team. We discussed our social media strategy which was each of us advertising on a particular social media platform such as Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook  and Twitter. I am also on finding the audience duty. We then discussed if we are going to do posters etc. which still needs to be clarified and then also had ideas of asking rusu and other rmit student groups to give our production social media accounts a shout out. I was also on the weekly update so i had to go around filming other classmates within their groups and just analysing everything that was happening within the class that i could discuss in the weekly update.

Nakita xx

So the studio last week was the initial start up of our final projects. Our project Blood Donation made it into the top stories which will be covered in the segment, the other ones that made it was Special Religious Education and War on Porn. We also discussed possibly included MS paint also. We were also given our production roles, I am part of the Marketing team aswell as the set, props, makeup, hair, costume team. The class consisted of a discussion of back and forth discussion of possibilities and excitement towards this final project. We were also visited by a guest speaker Matt Parkinson who has worked on the Chase, Full Frontal and Comedy Central. Is was interesting to see how he started off as a wannabe actor from Perth to a comedy news writer in Melbourne. He taught us three different ways in going about writing a comedy news script and told us that it takes time and determination to make it into the media world, particularly comedy.

Nakita xx

The studio class was set up very differently this week compared to other weeks. We spent the full four hours in the discussion studio space in building 9. The first two hours consisted of presenting our briefs to our lecturers and the rest of the class. Our presentation did very well, each of us explaining different areas of our project, some important facts, bits of the scripts, creative opportunities and why this topic is important and good for a comedy news segment. The lecturers were very impressed by our work and so were the students as when the polls started our idea was one of the highly popular ideas, meaning ours could be used for the final project. We then spent the rest of the session discussing the reading and Leo also told us that we need to vote which role we wanted in the final project. This week made me really excited for whats to come in the last few weeks of this studio.

Nakita xx