Semester 1 was an exciting and new experience i will never forget in my university years. My studio i took was ‘the festival experience’ where myself and twenty classmates staged a film festival in around 12 weeks. In this festival i was one of the head programmers for the ‘Debut International Film Festival’ (DIFF) where we celebrated new and current film makers and their debut films into cinema. We opened our festival on Wednesday the 31st of May at ‘The Capitol’ theatre in which we screened Tony Scott’s ‘The Hunger’ in which we grew a crowd we did not expect at all. I think the big thing we did well was the selection of the program which included what we aimed for which was a diverse and somewhat unknown showcase, we didn’t want just white Americans, we wanted global directors whether they were male or female. Another success i think we had was committing to a role, i think everyone in our festival did their job they were assigned especially us programmers in which we split the team into shorts and feature films. I think with the shortcomings and the things we troubled with in our festival comes down to two things which were communication and advertising. I feel that we did use discord as a platform to its best abilities but our ‘entire’ team never really communicated well which may have been to a language barrier but we still managed to stage a festival to our best ability. The other issue we had was advertising, we ran out of time, we needed to advertise our festivals program at least weeks before its showcase instead of less than a week, our social media team could have tried better to advertise to the world throughout various social media applications and putting up posters a day before was also not the best experience. The readings throughout this studio helped me gain all my knowledge of film festivals and have now intrigued me into my future whether its now attending festivals or even promoting new ones. Firstly, the reading ‘Setting up a Human Rights Film Festival, vol 2′ helped myself understand the creations of a film festival and was used as a cookbook for us which showcased recipes on different ways onto how to create a film festival in any way shape or form no matter the genre of the festival is focusing on. Another reading that was very interesting to me was Mark Cousins’ ‘Film Festival Form: A Manifesto’ which gave myself the opportunity to read the do’s and don’ts of film festival in a persuasive and intriguing way which permits the terrible parts of festivals that are either overdone or just don’t sit right for this festival expert. Another reading that helped maintain my knowledge of film festivals were Senses of Cinema articles explaining attending festivals especially our lecturer Cerise Howard’s viewing of festivals and her language she uses on her pros and cons of her experience at festivals under pressure. Either than this, my research entered outside of class into myself watching several YouTube videos and supporting and realising film festivals all around the world are popular and i didn’t even know about them which leads me into future support and attendance of them. Moving on, at the end of the semester i entered another studio exhibition which was ‘Ready Camera One’. In this exhibition i watched various game show adaptions whether it was comedic or just interesting, i really enjoyed my time and was intrigued by the creativity each students created but the standout was hosted by Jamie Miller in his ‘Improv Games’. The parts that stood out to me was the ability of the contestants and the host to completely do as the title says was pretty fascinating and impressive and i felt with the ability of RMIT and its special multi cam RMITV studios, the media piece felt realistic and professionally made due to this. Another thing that stood out to me was the use of green screen at the start which was not only amusing but created in a way that sits the show in its vibe and creates that comedic element.