I was filming some pickups for our Video Essay and cut together some clips of my girlfriend cooking and my housemate yelling on the phone. My cat has a weird tear duct and is crying all the time. This was a dramatic moment and I decided to immortalise it through the fabric and permanence of film.

The red lentil Dhal she made was bad and no one ate it and now it’s in the fridge. Taste.com lied and we knew what would happen.
But we trusted it anyway.

Two Teaspoons of Turmeric from rosie pavlovic on Vimeo.

I am trying so hard to be good at professionalism. I even took the pictures off my Facebook that my mum labelled ‘crude’ and ‘uncomfortable’.

Either way I’ve made a LinkedIn, marred by the shining Coles logo under current employment that I can’t remove without looking Jobless. I’ve even chosen a picture where I’m wearing a bra. This is corporate capitalism forcing me to fit the mould of the institution, working for the ‘man’. I’m somewhat joking here, but there’s honestly a part of me that’s not.

Also I saw that my old VCE Art teacher is a suggested connection. If you’re reading this I’m sorry I was so awful in year 12, I was just frustrated and very queer and unable to express that through my ~art~. If I could go back in time, I would be doing a performance piece where I “came out” to everyone to see societies reactions and hopefully get a gf.  Edgy, Deep, and a great way to test the waters before I actually came out. The waters were BAD. Lets be real.

Anyway add me on LinkedIn?
https://au.linkedin.com/in/rosie-pavlovic-8b9a2211a

The federal election is coming up and it’s time to head down to the booths and try to fix Australia!!! I was under 18 during the last federal election so I didn’t bother about enrolling. It was only until last night, 11 days before enrolment closes, that I realised I was not enrolled.

No, the government does not automatically enrol you, even though the technology is there. If you move from your electorate you must update your details. Please I can’t stress enough ow important the youth vote is in Australia. We have the power to change our government entirely, so please, even if you hate all the candidates, do not donkey vote or waste your democratic rights ‘making a stand’ by not voting. Look, if you genuinely don’t care, just pop down to your local primary school, number some boxes (ALL BOXES) and treat yourself to a Lamington. You’ve earned it kid.

this is truly an inspirational pic

2/3 voters support Labor or The Greens and yesterday I stood with Adam Bandt and Alex Bhatal at the education rally against university cuts, an issue directly affecting RMIT.

Enrolment closes at 8pm on the 23rd of May 2016.
You can add your name to roll, or you can check your enrolment details here: http://www.aec.gov.au/enrol/

This weeks lecture looked into Audiences in further depth. The part I will be analysing is specifically the Broadcast Era in which I’ve grown up. In this,  I want to address free to air television.
Through my personal experience I felt the end of the broadcast era in 2008. This is when I was 13 and my personal interest turned away from watching television with my family to seeking entertainment and information through other sources.
I no longer wanted to fit myself into the nuclear family, whom prime time television was aimed towards. However, now as an adult who no longer exhibits (as much) teen angst, I want to return to sitting with my family watching prime tv.

Unfortunately, during my distance from free to air, the media landscape shifted into the post broadcast era, and the chances I will be able to return are gone. Media has changed too much, and the power and routine of broadcast television is over.
I want to analyse how all the people growing up in a post broadcast era  have lost the ability to reconcile with free to air TV and thus turn to streaming. How media makers have less pressure to find that sought after 6.30 time slot. How audiences exist on two levels: those watching, and those who will watch later.

I have a strong nostalgia for being 13 and absorbing all the television I was shown, whether I wanted to see it or not. Those wasted hours watching tv until the show you set out to watch originally comes on. Waiting months for a “fast-tracked” episode of Gossip Girl, yet having to endure a re-run of Two and A Half Men. I don’t know if I loved it or hated it.

These days I find myself watching 3 different tv shows, none of them broadcast on television. The TV I bought in the living room is covered in a layer of dust. I like to put it on when I cook just for ambience. Broadcast media has lost it’s power, and I am intrigued to know why.

PS there is something about this aesthetic that I’m obsessed with. Like it’s a timepiece for my childhood. The longer the video goes, the more and more ‘2005’ it becomes.

We have launched into our 4th project brief with the news that it consists primarily on group work, and will be assessed on our ability to collaborate and participate with others in a productive way. This at first elicited a groan from me, but straight away I realised; I genuinely enjoy group work.
Some of the thing’s i’m most proud of were achieved in a group. There’s no way I could have done them alone.

My favourite experience was during a course called Shooting Short Productions. 5 scripts from the class were selected and we chose the script which we would like to collaborate. The hardest part was divvying up the tasks. Everyone wanted to edit. This time round I think it’s a much faster process to allocate one person to lead each task, but everyone has equal input and responsibility.

I ended up shooting for 3 days with the cast and crew,and it was nice. I ate a lot of kebabs. We bonded, and shared our favourite movies and film techniques. There was never any tension. I though the biggest learning curve was after 12 takes, I couldn’t time a shot right and be able to show enough coverage, so I swallowed my pride and handed over the camera to someone else. I was slowing down the momentum trying to be it all.

Anyway, on the last day of shooting, we shot at the house of the director. He had a sick vinyl on the wall from a band I was obsessed with at the time. I said hey sick record and he said thanks that’s my band. He flipped over the sleeve and there he was. (I took the vinyl home and never paid him sorry m8)

Anyway so here’s a successful piece of group work I made last year. EnjOÿ

Not at this Address from rosie pavlovic on Vimeo.

(This post has been written in a post-cyber aesthetic vernacular which aims to cut ties with retrospective affiliations of the “myspace-era” self expression on the internet.
This is in order to mimicry these outdated expressions, and establish myself on this platform as not a “normie” while also expressing my legitimate concerns about my p e r s o n a l i t y)

Q: Hi Rosie!
u probs know me as an extrovert if u are in class with me which is gross.
but I’m too extra at uni bc I’m having fun he he.
but when I’m working I’m like shy uwu bird smol birb tiny bird bone i wear my sweater sleeves clutched in me sweaty palms like an emo wearing a jay jays elmo jumper.
jks but not really.

rawr means i love u in dinosaur

1. my gf calls me “yep nup yep” which is an impression of me when i get frazzled taking orders at work. I get my y’s and n’s mixed up and i say things like yep, nup yep!.
   another great moment was me clearing a plate and an old man said the fish was great and instead of saying like, “glad to hear it!” or “i’ll let the chef know”, i tried to say AW YEAH ? : )))) (why)
   but instead i said awww REAHHH? which isn’t a word nor a sentence anyone would say ever.
   so yeah, i am a multi-faceted human being with a speech impediment. What are some tips for working in group me?
   – Rosie

   A: Hi Rosie,
   I AM In Class Right Now And Here Are Some Tips On Working With Other People Without Being A Control Freak/Too Weird and Egotistical

1. Prioritise the group’s goal
2. Close listening > deep listening
3. Aim for complete concentration
4. Be in Control without being a control freak!
5. Learn to manage blended egos (including ur own)
6. Allow  and strive for equal participation
7. someone may be more experienced with a problem, familiarity>problem solving
8. OPEN communication
9. moving it forward, make sure you’re being productive
10. prepare for the potential for failure 🙂

hope these help sweetie! good luck with the group assignment
– Rosie

I think a great example of noticing, marking and recording would be the writing of Larry David. A show like Seinfeld is dubbed “a show about nothing” when it should be a show about noticing. The characters are hyperaware of the most minuscule social conventions, such as a woman with “man hands”, or taking credit for a purchase when handing someone a salad, or even the way a person laughs. It’s qualms we filter out in our day to day life, yet David has capitalised on the sensation of noticing something, and letting it ruin the experience for you.

We are discussing empathy in class today and I think a real standout example of a fluid and demeaning story arc is in Christos Tsiolkas’ novel and tv adaptation of The Slap. The blurb for the novel states:

At a suburban barbecue, a man slaps a child who is not his own.
This event has a shocking ricochet effect on a group of people, mostly friends, who are directly or indirectly influenced by the slap.

The novel is told through each character’s perspective, as 8 key characters are given a chapter to further the narrative. Not to give spoilers, but the story begins in a suburban barbecue in Northcote, where we can already see the party of adults pushing social strains, with polite arguments between strangers and pressures on the friend group. As the night continues the tension in the party grows, and so does the attitude of the children attending. After a game of backyard cricket goes wrong, a member of the party slaps a disobedient child. The child was not his own.

From this we see a total division between the families involved, those on the side of the slapper, and those defending the child. However the more we see from each character’s perspective, the less we can empathise with anyone involved. The man who committed the act is found out to be a domestic abuser with a history of violence. The mother of the child, who subsequently sues the man, is portrayed as a manipulative attention seeker. However none ever asks the child if he is okay, or if he wants retribution.

This is a great example of a shifting protagonist, a varied story arc. It’s a story that makes you question your own morals, and by the end, the people you originally persecuted are the ones you are rooting for.

The Slap can be watched on Stan or ABC iView.