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2021 :: SPRING SEMESTER :: STUDIO EXHIBITION SITES
It is with great pleasure AGAIN that we can share with you the exhibition sites from the Spring Semester Media Studios. This semester sometimes goes unrecognised but always produces great work as is evidenced here in each studio’s site:
DIRECTING PERFORMANCE
Investigating acting performance as a core component on screen
POETIC VIDEO
Listing the everyday
2 classes, 2 sites:
1 DECONSTRUCTING/RECONSTRUCTING GENRE
2 DECONSTRUCTING/RECONSTRUCTING GENRE
Filmic explorations in the implosion of genre
Studios described here Media Studio Descriptions Book – 2021 Spring Flex
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2021 :: Semester Two :: Studio EXHIBITION Sites
A CAPITOL IDEA!
Arts-based placemaking and filmmaking
ALTERNATIVE MOBILE MEDIA
Exploring alternative media technology through analysis and making experiments
CANON FODDER
Creating media manifestos that interrogate cinema canons
COLLECTING EMBODIMENT
Making media collections through, with and about the sensing body
COOKING UP A STORM
Food and food culture on the small screen (Links to an external site.)
DELIBERATE FILM
The learning of filmmaking guided by prompts and constraints
DESIGNING DRAMA
The practice of narrative film production
EXPERIMENT.SCREEN.SENSATION
Screen art and film workshop
INFINITE LISTS
Poetic approaches to media production
INSTAGRAM VIDEO
Designing and producing Instagram video for art galleries
OK ZOOMER
Podcast production foregrounding Gen Z voices
REAL TO REEL
Self directed non-fiction project
SCREEN LAB
Educating and engaging through cinematic experiments
SOCIAL SCRIPTWRITING
Writing narrative scripts in collaboration
THE NEWS IS A JOKE
Investigating news satire and parody in a post-broadcast era
Studios described here (broken into online and face to face although all had to be online):
ONLINE Media studios sem 2_2021
ON CAMPUS Media studios sem 2_2021
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2021 :: Semester One :: Studio EXHIBITION Sites
Studio Descriptions ONLINE ONLY studios & ON CAMPUS studios
COLLECTING EMBODIMENT
Making media collections through, with and about the sensing body
DELIBERATE FILM
The learning of filmmaking inspired by prompts and guided with constraints
FACT CHECK
Investigating the impact of ‘Fake News’
FUTURE MACHINA
Creating contemporary futurology with film, video, audio & immersive art
FUTURE PLAY
Exploring the potential of games and playful media for social innovation and change
IT’S NOT ROCKET SURGERY
Communicating complex ideas
MAKING SENSE OF SOCIAL MEDIA
Exploring social media as a space for research and creative media making. Linkedin news!
MISS FISHER AND THE PROBLEM OF THE PREQUEL PODCAST
Working in a writers room to adapt content between formats and producing cinematic audio drama
PLATFORM VIDEO
Social media video content for McClelland Sculpture Park + Gallery
Site coming soon
REAL TO REEL
Self-directed non-fiction project
ROOM WITH A VIEW
Broadcast radio as a collaborative space and enduring audio medium
SEEING THE UNSEEN
Media and the environment
SIX MODES OF DOCUMENTARY
Drawing on the “six modes’ to develop distinctive documentary voices
THE FESTIVAL EXPERIENCE
Conceiving and mounting a film festival
THE SCENE IN CINEMA
Studies in camera coverage
UNRAVELLING THE REAL
Experiments in documentary
WOMEN BESIDE THE SCREEN
Gender and film production
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2020 :: Spring Semester :: Studio EXHIBITION Sites
It is with great pleasure AGAIN that we can share with you the exhibition sites from the Spring Semester Media Studios. This semester sometimes goes unrecognised but always produces great work as is evidenced here in each studio’s site. Check it:
DECONSTRUCTING/RECONSTRUCTING GENRE
Filmic explorations in the implosion of genre
Studio Leader: Cassandra Tytler
FUTURE PLAY
Exploring the potential of games and playful media for social innovation and change
Studio Leader: Ingrid Richardson
REAL TO REEL
Self directed non-fiction project
Studio Leader: Rohan Spong
USES OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Rethinking our visual literacy through photographic practice
Studio Leader: Brian Morris
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2020 :: Spring Semester Two :: Studio EXHIBITION Sites
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2020 :: Semester Two :: Studio EXHIBITION Sites
Students and studio leaders alike rose to the occasion and in many ways surpassed this year’s difficult situation. Multiple times a week we heard about new ways of making films, recording podcasts, developing social media and building careers out of adversity. Ingenious methods of teaching, research and collaboration were developed by staff and students that will stay with us well beyond the pandemic.
Please enjoy engaging with the studio’s exhibition sites from semester 2 and below that from semester 1
RMIT VIRTUAL SHOWCASE – CAPITOL THEATRE
ALTERNATIVE MOBILE MEDIA
Exploring alternative media technology through analysis and making experiments
CANON FODDER
Creating media manifestos that interrogate cinema canons
GETTING INTO CHARACTER
Generating characters through writing and filming.
COLLABORATIONS: SOFT CHOREOGRAPHY
Poetry + Essay; Word + Moving Image
DEMAGOGUES, DOUBTERS AND DOUCHEBAGS
The voice-over in documentary film
EXPERIMENT. SCREEN. SENSATION.
Screen art and film workshop
INFINITE LISTS
Poetic approaches to media production
MAKING EMBODIMENT
Media making through, with and about the sensing body
PLATFORM VIDEO no site (commercial on confidence)
Social media video content produced in partnership with McClelland Sculpture Park + Gallery.
REAL TO REEL
Self directed non-fiction project
SCREEN LAB
Educating and engaging through cinematic experiments
SOCIAL MEDIA FOR SOCIAL CHANGE
Educating, informing, influencing and rallying on social media
TELLING STORIES WITH SOUND
Podcasting and audio storytelling
THE NEWS IS A JOKE
Investigating news satire and parody in a post-broadcast era
TRANSLATING OBSERVATION
Experiments in actuality, subjectivity & film form
UNRAVELLING THE REAL
Experiments in Documentary
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2020 :: Semester One :: Studio EXHIBITION Sites
CLIMATE CHANGING MEDIA
The Political and Poetic Possibilities of Climate Change Communications
DELIBERATE FILM
The learning of filmmaking inspired by prompts and guided with constraints.
DELIBERATE FILM2
The learning of filmmaking inspired by prompts and guided with constraints.
DEMAGOGUES, DOUBTERS AND DOUCHEBAGS
The voice-over in documentary film
DOCUMENTING THE ENVIRONMENT
Imaging New Futures
EXPERIMENT. SCREEN. SENSATION.
Screen Art and Film Workshop
FACT CHECK
Investigating ‘fake news’ in a post-truth world
THE FESTIVAL EXPERIENCE
Conceiving and mounting a film festival
FROM SCREEN TO STREET
A video collaboration with HRAFF
FUTURE MACHINA
Creating Contemporary Futurology with Film, Video, Audio & Immersive Art
GREEN MEDIA
Media making in partnership with Friends of the Earth’s ‘Act on Climate’ campaign
INFINITE LISTS
Poetic Approaches to Media Production
MAKING EMBODIMENT
Media making through, with and about the sensing body
MAKING SENSE OF SOCIAL MEDIA
Exploring social media as a space for research and creative media making
REEL TO REAL
Self directed non-fiction project
ROOM WITH A VIEW
Live to air radio as a site for collaborative production and distribution
THE SCENE IN CINEMA
Studies in camera coverage
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2019 :: Spring-Flex (Nov-Dec) Semester :: Studio EXHIBITION Sites
Studio Outcomes and Reflections:
CONNECTING CITIES-studio [link coming soon]
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2019 :: Semester Two :: Studio EXHIBITION Sites
Studio Descriptions Booklet | Sem 2 2019
Studio Outcomes and Reflections:
MATERIAL-CHOREOGRAPHIES-studio
ALTERNATIVE-MOBILE-MEDIA-studio
DECONSTRUCTING-RECONSTRUCTING-GENRE-studio
EXPERIMENT.SCREEN.SENSATION-studio
MEMORY-IDENTITY-NEIGHBOURHOODS-studio
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2019 :: Semester One :: Studio EXHIBITION Sites
Studio Description Booklet Sem 1 2019
Studio Outcomes and Reflections:
BATTLE OF THE SKETCHES – Smashing the patriarchy one LOL at a time
THE CAPITOL – Reconstructing the Magic
DEMAGOGUES, DOUBTERS AND DOUCHEBAGS – The voice-over in documentary film
ENTANGLED MEDIA – An exploration of storytelling using multiple modalities
FOOD ON FILM – Culture, aesthetics and politics
THE FESTIVAL EXPERIENCE – Conceiving and mounting a film festival
LIGHTS, CAMERA, (INTER)ACTION – Exploring the creation of interactive media art with sound and video
NOW, THIS – Fake news and fact checks
REAL TO REEL – Self-directed non-fiction project
ROOM WITH A VIEW – Live to air radio as a site for collaborative production and distribution
SCREENING FASHION – Figuring fashion within the moving image and vice versa
SMALL THINGS – The learning of filmmaking inspired by prompts and guided with constraints
TRANSLATING OBSERVATION – Experiments in actuality, subjectivity and film form
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2018 :: Semester Two :: Studio EXHIBITION Sites
Studio Descriptions Booklet | Sem 2 2018
Studio Outcomes and Reflections
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2018 :: Semester One :: Studio EXHIBITION Sites
Studio Descriptions Booklet | Sem 1 2018
- Film Light
An exploration of lighting in and for film - Memory, Identity & Neighbourhoods
Representation and poetics of the neighbourhoods that we live in - Picture This!
Visual storytelling for screenwriters - Ready Camera One
Multi-camera studio production - Room With A View
Live to air radio as a site for collaborative production and distribution - Sacred Place
Exploring creative media practice, from the secluded to the social - The Art of Persuasion
Poetics & politics in documentary - They Film People, Don’t They?
Ethics and the Documentary Interview - Thinking in Fragments
Screen production for online spaces - Uses of Photography V2.0
Rethinking visual literacies through photographic practice
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2017 :: Semester Two
Studio Descriptions Booklet | Sem 2 2017
- http://www.mediafactory.org.au/2017-seeing-the-unseen-studio/
- http://www.mediafactory.org.au/2017-documentary-as-action-studio/
- http://www.mediafactory.org.au/2017-everyones-a-critic-studio/
- http://www.mediafactory.org.au/2017-its-not-rocket-surgery-studio/
- http://www.mediafactory.org.au/2017-the-news-is-a-joke-studio/
- http://www.mediafactory.org.au/2017-podcast-studio/
- http://www.mediafactory.org.au/2017-the-mechanics-of-immersion-studio/
- http://www.mediafactory.org.au/2017-this-is-serial-studio/
- http://www.mediafactory.org.au/2017-box-studio/
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2017 :: Semester One
Studio Descriptions Booklet | Sem 1 2017
- http://www.mediafactory.org.au/2017-another-world-studio/
- http://www.mediafactory.org.au/2017-ecologies-of-noticing/
- http://www.mediafactory.org.au/2017-its-alive-studio/
- http://www.mediafactory.org.au/2017-lentara-studio/
- http://www.mediafactory.org.au/2017-more-than-fabric-studio/
- http://www.mediafactory.org.au/2017-olds-cool-studio/
- http://www.mediafactory.org.au/2017-room-with-a-view-studio/
- http://www.mediafactory.org.au/2017-true-to-form-studio/
- http://www.mediafactory.org.au/2017-the-uses-of-photography-studio/
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2016 :: Semester Two
Studio Descriptions Booklet | Sem 2 2016
- Capturing Creativity: The Video Portrait (Louise Turley)
- Documentary Design (Seth Keen)
- Exploding Genre (Dan Binns)
- Good Form: Producing a Comedy Web Series (Jeremy Bowtell, Stayci Taylor)
- ‘Go Out in To the World and Do Great Things’: Experiments in Participatory Documentary (Kim Munro)
- Transgression Stories (Catherine Gough-Brady)
- Translating Observation (Robin Plunkett)
- The News is a Joke: The Rise of TV Comedy News (Leo Berkeley)
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2016 :: Semester One
Studio Descriptions Booklet | Sem 1 2016
- The Art of Persuasion: poetics & politics in documentary (Studio Leader: Liam Ward)
- The Digital Director (Mark Poole)
- Finding the Ear: developing short film drama (James Thompson)
- It’s Alive (Leo Berkeley)
- Lentara: nonfiction design (Seth Keen, Peter West)
- Room With A View: multi-platform radio as a site for collaborative production & distribution (Bruce Berryman)
- The Scene in Cinema (Robin Plunkett)
- The Shot vs The Cut (Nick Moore)
- The Story Lab (Daniel Binns)
- The Story, the Source and the Documentary (Lisa Horler)
- Ways of Making: an alternative approach to film production (Paul Ritchard)
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2016 :: Summer Semester Intensive
Studio Description Booklet | Summer (Jan-Feb) 2016
- The Great Belgian Egg Hunt: Music Video Production (Studio Leader: Rohan Spong)
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2015 :: Semester Two
Studio Descriptions Booklet | Sem 2 2015
- Character (Studio Leader: Catherine Gough-Brady)
- Film 3: contrasting fiction & non-fiction methodologies (Robin Plunkett, Paul Ritchard)
- ‘It’s Not Rocket Surgery’: communicating complex ideas (Liam Ward)
- New Documentary: i-doc design & production (Seth Keen)
- On the Frame (Daniel Binns)
- Radio’s ‘New Wave’ (hello,not goodbye) (Kyla Brettle)
- Specific to Site: media responses to (non-)places (Robbie Rowlands)
- The Video Micro-Essay (Nick Moore)
- Writing for Film, Filming for Writing (Jasmine Roth, Paul Ritchard, Stayci Taylor)
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2015 :: Semester One
Studio Descriptions Booklet | Sem 1 2015
- The Art of Persuasion: poetics & politics in documentary (Studio Leader: Liam Ward)
- Documentary Ontography: nonfiction stories, lists and things (Adrian Miles)
- Ghosts and Space: Mediating Place (Rachel Wilson)
- It’s Alive (Leo Berkeley)
- Online Video Experiments (Seth Keen)
- Room With A View: multi-platform radio as a site for collaborative production & distribution (Bruce Berryman)
- The Scene in Cinema (Paul Ritchard, Robin Plunkett)
- The Story Lab: no limits narrative (Daniel Binns)