The Pitching Party -Wk 7

Monday Mid-day Pitch session!

It was made into a real life pitch sesh (mmhmm I went there) because Alexia brought with her donuts! She did promise this to happen however in my head I was thinking sure; I’ll happily accept your classic Coles cinnamon style circle donuts. Delicious! But no no no, we were throwing back gourmet true Melbourne style over achieving donuts. There were green ones, crunchy ones, iced ones and misshaped ones. It was fab.

Anyway, in other news. we also pitched our ideas for a piece we would contribute to in the final publication! Hooray. We went around the circle and gave a quick synopsis. Among the myriad ideas such as critically looking at a range of films, film genres, TV series, music, pop culture trends, food and much more.

 

My idea is to follow the Acai berry. The oh so trendy and oh so expensive delectable berry that is not only a super food (this word will possibly be discussed) but it’s also a tool for Instagram success if photographed right. Food porn is as popular as ever and the Acai berry is getting dragged into peoples feeds everywhere. Perhaps looking at places in Melbourne and if you want to travel abroad, where to get it overseas aswell.

Wednesday’s class saw us working on our grammar again. We looked at the common grammatical errors in our Project Brief assessment tasks.
The topics we covered were:

  • Passive and active voices
  • The difference between colons and semicolons
  • The different types of dashes (hyphen, en-dash, em-dash)
  • It’s versus its
  • Effect versus affect

Alexia introduced the class with the simple activity of reading out sentences by switching from a passive voice (filled with film references) to an active voice. This made us realise how important it is to maintain an active voice in a critical review and how easy it is to fall into the passive voice again.

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