- Contribution and collaboration (HD 84)
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Role
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Human
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Description
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Production Manager
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Stephanie Winkler
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Overseeing pre-production and running of event, all information to Steering Committee proofed and checked, development of running sheet, standby questions for guests, release forms (signed and sent to Rachel), Host/MC briefed and ready.
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Key Contact
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Natali Lambevska
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Email template for guest invite (date, time, description), confirmation email to guests, key contact person on day of event, photography post production and sending to steering committee, emailing of relevant links to steering committee.
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Master of Ceremonies
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Rose Houghton
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MC event, development of questions appropriate to guests (with Steph, all), presentation of gifts to guests, audio edited and sent to steering committee.
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Publicity
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Til Heggie and Mia Besorio
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Publicity strategy, forwarding bio’s and relevant information to steering committee for website, generating publicity material, intro music/visuals (if relevant).
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Publicity/Technical
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Heath Garvey and Paddy Hassall
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Publicity plan (who is doing what, where, when), technical direction, camera operation/checks, video highlights edited and submitted to steering committee.
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Event Production
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Diana Conti
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Stage and furniture prep, ushering, audience handouts, refreshments and guest water, baked goods.
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Event Assistants
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Nico Chen and Katherine Wang
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Name tags printed (with correct spelling and titles), Powerpoint checked and working if relevant, thank you cards, checking that release forms have been sent to Rachel, video/photo/audio to steering committee etc.
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As our Role Description demonstrated, I make most contributions to the event section.
I know it seems event section is considerably relaxed and free to do it compared with the completely organised and professional technical parts. But I really try my best and make my every effort to set everything under my responsibility be perfect.
To be more specifically, in the early time, I’ve actively made my contribution to the idea of our seminar. Based on my background, I’m mostly interested in the international area rather than the local culture. So a very basic idea coming in my mind is that, we can concentrate on diverse radio industries, which means making a comparison and contrast among these three kinds of radio station: a. community radio station includes 3RRR, b. international radio station includes SBS, 3cw, c. local and commercial radio station includes ABC, 3JJJ, so that our audiences could have a better understanding on the radio industry, in order to give some effective advice to the radio students and make more people obtain a sort of rethinking on the radio aspect. Obviously, people commonly suppose that radio as a kind of traditional media has become less competitive fighting with the film and TV industry with visual screens. Therefore, our radio seminar gonna to break up that and rethink that radio is ALIVE, surviving the death of traditional media in the modern time.
Particularly, I’ve also made my contribution to the event preparation itself. I’ve designed the very different name tags for our guests which is tightly relevant to the zombie picking up the brain, though they haven’t been utilized in the seminar. Also the thank you cards. I took much time on looking for the fantastic and different thank you cards for our sweet guests.
Totally speaking, our collaborative process is greatly wonderful and runs very well, everyone is responsible for their distributions. I guess the only problem or issue is the process of finding and locking down our guests in the end. We got too many options from the local commercial radio stations such as BBC, ABC 3JJJ, Nova etc, being quite controversial on the guest list then. But finally, we’ve decided the Lauren, newsreader and presenter for Nova FM; May, producer for SBS; Jennifer, freelancer for ABC/BBC/Radio National and Damon, producer for Triple J Unearthed just according to the diverse radio systems and different areas in the radio station. The other thing is the seminar questions. That’s the key part under a whole seminar, should be interesting of course, and catch the typical points that we wanna mostly show to people to be more understandable on the radio. Lu and me, our focus is May Hu, who is a producer from SBS because we are quite familiar with the international part. For example, what is the cultural importance of the Mandarin show to the Mandarin community within Australia, and internationally? Or how important do you believe radio is as a means of global communication? And eventually, all of us set the seminar questions like from very basic aspect (like why you are always interested in radio) to the very potential and inside aspect (like any advice for the radio students, future of the radio and something in the technical and digital elements).
The interviews are great with interesting and diverse group of guests.Happy ending with the Lurch & Chief live performance!
- Proactive Learning (HD 82)
Yes, absolutely. Most of my group members are from our radio course last year, we’ve worked together a lot.
Actually, I usually do the sound design or technical stuff in a group, that’s what I’m good at. But it is a great opportunity for me touch something else, more on the event preparation and production behind the technical things. In another word, it would be another skill improvement for me in a group.
You cant decide by yourself only, team work doesn’t allow that happen ever never. I personally suppose that event area needs a quite long waiting. Just be patient!
Looking at the radio seminar, I’ve got double or triple contents on radio. To be honest, I still get some regrets after I’ve done a year of radio studying in my second year in the university. The reason why I’ve selected the radio is due to my ridiculous thoughts, I think radio would be much easier to control rather than the film and TV. One is focus on audio only, the other is focus on both audio and video, then I got the radio. What’s worse, it seems that the future of radio is not that bright compared with the modern film and TV industry nowadays. However, I changed my mind after this radio seminar. Either of film, TV or radio industry, they are equally competitive today under the media industry, and radio is undergoing a digital revolution. The only thing you need is the interest and experience, the more the better. Further, thinking about what you want to do and where you want to do it. There are always hundreds or thousands of applications for any job in radio, we need to have strong and relevant experience, so that to get a chance to come in.
- Participation (HD 87)
Yes, I’ve attended all the group meetings.
Just as my previous mentioned, I’ve made the contribution to the idea brainstorm.
The structure is below:
Radio
Community Radio International Radio Commercial Radio
(3RRR) (SBS/3cw) (ABC/BBC/Triple J)
Just due to some reason, we’ve cancelled the COMMUNITY one, just dividing into two parts, the international and commercial one finally, to explore their programs further.
And also have a contribution to the style of the intro recording to the guests, as well as the Powerpoint making. We all love the intro videos come from the TV seminar, so we do some changes, making them tightly relate to our radio theme, the intro is quite fabulous anyway.
- Connections & intersections (HD 89)
The six seminar series are Film 1, Film 2, TV, Radio, Events and Digital Media. All of them are always around with the media industry and closely connect each other. All the seminar series provide us media students the damn useful and effective advice for our future, looking for jobs after we graduated in terms of the debate from those producers, directors, writers, creators, presenters, managers…
The other thing is the spirit of team work. We have group task in every course every semester every year, quite evident to see the importance of the team work. Working with international students is much easier and relaxed than working with local students. Because most international students get the very similar background (mostly with the Asian cultures). I usually feel quite equal and free in terms of the skills, abilities and professions. However, I sometimes feel much upset and disappointed when I’m working with those great local students, and feel less confident to organize something as usual I did among the international groups. Anyway, that is the situation when I was in my first or second year in the university study. I feel much confident to work with the local students right now. They are so nice and encourage me to show my ideas, my thoughts, my viewpoints on a topic that we discussed in the group.
Because of the course “Media Industries 1 & 2″ and “Production Project 1 & 2″, I also feel much confident and free to talk with some professionals not in the RMIT and get the relevant internships to rich my experiences before I graduated in the end of this year.
Finally, I give myself HD (86) for my Media Industries 2. I think I did quite well and practice a lot no matter as a group or as an individual.
