Work Attachment Notes + Thoughts

WORK ATTACHMENT LECTURE NOTES

  • have a list of skills you already have and specific skills you would like to develop, approach employers with concrete plan
  • make a list of 6-12 work attachments: what is your ideal attachment? who will best suit the developmental needs you’ve listed?
  • must figure out ABC/SBS work attachments (2 year turnover so get on it THIS YEAR)
  • reply to emails!! And have compose an awesome, kickass email that you can just edit/personalise
  • letter of introduction, expression of interest (should be in body of email already, only resume as attachment) – put in what you need to say in 100 words or less
  • look at Career section in RMIT site

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I am so excited for these! Now I just need to start writing some kickass expressions of interests, spiffy up my resume, and then find some actual places to send them to.

My ideal attachments would be in the theatre, fashion, opera, dance, live performance, or literature industries assisting their marketing or PR departments in creating material to promote shows and other events.

S01EP23 Modern Warfare: Watching Community

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I am a recent convert to this show (thanks peer pressure!) and I never want to look back again. Part of this show’s charm is its unabashed self-referencing, self-conscious meta-ness. No one is safe, not the actors, writers, directors, or especially genre. Sure, that’s nothing new but the show does it with so much love and fun. It’s unpretentious comedy and in that it achieves quiet sophistication and very loud laughs.

The episode titled is from the first season and what many critics argue to be the best of the season. It was also awarded Comedy Episode of the Year at the Gold Derby Awards and came in third in its time slot during airing. As TIME critic James Poniewozik puts it, “a lot of sitcoms can make you laugh. It’s a rare one that can so fully share the sense of joy its cast, writers and crew have in making the show“. This episode satirises every beautiful cliche from the action genre, personal favourite moments including those between Jeff and Britta as the last-two-standing-with-unresolved-sexual-tension-and-witty-banter complete with the shirtless man being tended to by attractive female trope.

Stakes are high with this paintball game, Priority Registration (first pick at classes) as the prize. The paint-caked school grounds could rival that of any apocalyptic city and alliances are formed and broken – all delivered with a gloriously straight face because that’s how the Community cookie crumbles.

Workshop 11: Sound Essay rough cut needs more cut and less rough!

Brian’s Feedback:

  • move humorous/ridiculous underpants interview to the front – use it as an  “exemplary textual snippet” that will immediately draw listener in
  • need to be more interactive with each other, have a more playful tone/mix up our voices
  • fade in between scene dialogue and self talking (for variety and texturing) – maybe use some sound bite dialogue as background music (without intruding intruding)
  • make the researched reading information more engaging through discussion tone, can do with less

And it goes without saying: cut it shorter!! To quote the great Dolly Parton, 9 toooo 5 (minutes). Literally.

ACMI Scorsese Briefing

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ACMI’s big exhibition this winter season is on legendary filmmaker Martin Scorsese and tonight the ACMI volunteers had our exhibition briefing/training. I have to admit that save for a couple of his “greats” and some more minor films, I am not very familiar with his work. Maybe it’s because so much of his work feature male stories with women typically relegated to supporting roles. More on that another time when I binge his films with my unforgiving feminist eyes. But I’m sure such a well respected film director with sophisticated vision shouldn’t have to capitalize (much) on pointless objectification…I do sincerely look forward to watching his work.
ON ANOTHER NOTE, we’re building a themed bar so that’ll be awesome. New goal: Drink on my shift.