In our workshop today, based on individual interests, the room was divided into potential seminar groups and topics. Personally, being interested in the online and digital aspects of the media industry, I headed to the section of the space titled social media. Unfortunately, with the majority of the course population drifting towards film, television and documentary the survival of “social media” as a seminar topic was initially looking quite bleak…

However, slowly through a combination of nominating absent friends and convincing a few to switch from their first chosen group we were able to get our group numbers up enough to ensure we remained. Our celebrations were somewhat short-lived though, as minutes later we discovered that we would be leading the way and that Social Media would be the first seminar to take place.  After a vote, a theme for all of the seminar’s was also established this being “Epic Adventure”, which then formed the steering committees’ page of RMIT Adventure – the title of the entire seminar series.

Having a seminar topic of social media, a theme of epic adventure, an almost secured group of 13 people and a mere 3 weeks before out seminar date we spent the last part of class frantically brainstorming. We made both a Facebook group and a google doc in order to communicate outside of class, looked at potential people to contact over the next week in order to lock in our required three guest speakers and also began discussing in depth the requirements of the task and the different individual roles that would be needed.