Joan of Arts Seminar Week!

During the week of and leading up to our seminar, I was posting videos and images to Instagram and three separate Facebook pages (RMIT Adventure page, Joan of Arts page, seminar page). Other than just posting videos/photos I carefully composed captions and tags for each post.

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An example of one of my FB posts.Screen Shot 2015-09-14 at 7.45.49 pmStarting from the most recent, the 1st, 4th, 5th, 7th, 8th, 9th posts in these screengrabs of the Instagram were posted by me. 
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On the day of the seminar I helped to set up by getting equipment from Building 9 and transporting it with Sarah and Maree to the seminar room in Building 80. There I helped to set up, specifically by getting the cameras working, getting tripods and stands for lighting/audio stuff up and running, carrying things, pinning black fabric to the chairs, finding people and making phone calls to find people. Here’s a pic of me when we were getting the seminar room ready:

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During the seminar I took photos and videos of our speakers and audience. After the seminar I helped to pack down everything, by carrying a blue chair and pot plant at once to Building 5, the lift wasn’t working so we had to carry them up the stairs, putting the seminar photo and video data onto a computer, taking down and packing equipment, doing a check to ensure everything was there, doing a quick rubbish check and eating left over cookies.

A day after the seminar I made a final post to the Instagram.

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And I will be helping with the editing of photos and videos in the week after the seminar.

Women in Media, what’s new this week (5)

As I am in the video group, along with Sarah and Matt and our group leader Mollie, we have come up with the concept for our promotional video and have set up a time and roles for the day. As I am a videographer in my work outside of uni, I will be DoP for the film, and I’ll also be bringing in a camera, tripod and recording equipment for the day. We’ve planned the structure of the film and decided that as our MC, Prani will star in it. We will shoot the film on the Friday of week 6, and Sarah and I will edit the film. I have also contributed to the social media page, where we are discussing content. This week has mostly been contributing ideas for discussion and making decisions with the group, but with the video and with social media, the two aspects of promotion that I will be helping with, we have had a productive week.

Women in Media, Week 5

This week I contributed by:

  • Suggesting that we divide our to-do list into sections and a group to each one

We were getting dogged down in the decision making process as it was so hard for everyone to meet regularly to discuss our option and the Facebook page often left people out. I suggested this move so that the different groups could make proposals to the whole group, to be approved, to get things moving a bit quicker as we have only three weeks to go.

  • Signed up to be a part of the social media group

The social media group will be in charge of the Facebook and Twitter pages, and Instagram content. We are currently doing research to find information on our guests that we can use to promote the event and have started throwing out ideas for content so that we can get those pages started straight away.

  • Volunteered to be in the video group with one other person

As a videographer with professional equipment it makes sense for me to volunteer for this position, where along with Sarah we will be in charge of creating the vide promo, intro to the seminar (if the group decides we need one) and recording the seminar.

  • Began brainstorming for the video promo

Women in Media (Week 4)

Unfortunately I was unable to attend the meeting this week as I was sick with the flu that everyone has been coming down with. However, I continued to discuss with our group members and our team leader via the Facebook group and volunteered for the role of managing the Facebook page, as well as contributing ideas for publicity content of the Instagram.

I created a mock up image based on our discussions as a temporary profile image for the Instagram and Facebook while we wait for the proper logo and background images to be designed:

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Women in Media, Week 3

I attended the group meeting this week and we voted on three definite speakers who we would contact and a back up speaker if one was not able to attend. We also discussed poster design and the over all aesthetic of our seminar publicity. We’ve decided to have a Facebook and an Instagram, as well as physical posters, to advertise the event.

We got dogged down in the speakers and the aesthetic a bit too much and didn’t have much time to discuss anything else in the meeting. However, on Facebook we have mentioned the other things that we need to discuss very soon:

– Actual design of the poster

– Video promo

– Stage design

– Format of the event

– MC

– Catering

Women in Media, Week 2 (The first week)

Well, I’ve chosen to become a part of a group, and our topic, women in the media industry, is something that I’m very interested in and something that is obviously very relevant to me as a woman going into the media industry.

Our group has created a Facebook page and people are proposing names for potential speakers. I proposed Jannine Barnes, Producer of the Australian feature film, Downriver, who over saw my internship. I’ve also supported the proposals of other people in my group and made suggestions as to which speakers would be most relevant to our topic.

At the moment that’s about all that is happening. When we meet we will discuss more about the other things that need to be done.