Angus Jones – 3658552

RMIT University | Bachelor of Communications (Media) 2020 | Climate Changing Media Assessment 4

 Prompt 10: Responding to Presentation Feedback

Firstly it was a huge honour to have on outside perspective into our media making projects from our guest panel for this presentation. Having access to professionally involved media and academic people I felt was really worthwhile, and this was reflected in their constructive feedback during our presentations.

The general feedback from the judging panel was that my hyperobject choice and the reasoning why I wanted to re-shape the current stigma surrounding the plastic bottles in contemporary media, they thought was good definitely a step in the correct direction.

Wendy in particular raised the idea of the connection that plastic bottles have with us, as human beings would be interesting to follow. Though she did say that my way of demonstrating that could be fleshed out a bit more; saying that climate media is never static, it’s always changing. She mentioned the piece about Huntley converting more people to the ‘alarmed’ concern towards the environment, and how currently thanks to events as COVID-19 and the Australian Bushfires that occurred earlier this year, people in Australia are already more ‘alarmed’ to these issues. I was thinking of focusing more on plastic bottles something that we are more familiar with and love, using that untouchable connection and explore that through use of a soundscape.

This also related to Amy’s advice on approaching the topic of plastic bottles and their connection to us. She mentioned Heather Davis’s The Queer Futurity of Plastic presentation in which she discusses the ethical responsibility that we have with plastic. She frames it in a way to suggest that plastic is like our next of kin, something that we are related too and we should be taking radical care of them. I thought Amy’s offered resource was really interesting to listen but also assisting me in my own project by showing content of a similar creation.

Cristina’s feedback as well was insightful as she offered up a lot of supportive comments and resources including a webpage which offered up multiple sound tracks which could be used, an article written in the Guardian with an attached podcast discussing the sudden obsession of using less plastic and a link to 2005’s best documentary The Wire episode 5: The Sound Around nominated by the Third Coast International Audio Festival. Cristina also offered constructive feedback highlighting that I should work out the specific of what story or message I want to send to the listeners.