the mid semester critique:

This week’s class was very much focussed on the conception of our idea for the final assignment. I think what was interesting about this class was being able to listen to everyone’s ideas and trying to imagine how we were going to stitch all of them together to create a cohesive 30 minute comedy news program.

I think it’s worth considering having the show structured loosely on how breakfast TV shows ( or even celebrity talk shows like The Ellen Show ) get structured- having a main desk with main hosts but then moving the camera around to different sections of the studio where there are other corresspondants present to convey other news topics. If you look at The Ellen Show for instance, she often has a sit down set up where most of her interviews take place but brings the audience to the bigger side of the studio where she has her games segment or where all the musicians perform when they come on the show. That area is also where she does her introductory monologue. Having the opportunity to utilise the bigger studio space at RMIT, it would be best if we maximise and structure our show with that big studio space in mind.

With regards to the content of the show, we’ve got a few sports related topics that could be spoken about together and I think it’s worth creating a segment entirely about sports.