Strategic Diary 6

One year is not a long time but not a short time as well. So I need to make a plan for the following year. Which can help me create a good goal which I can follow. The first important thing is finish my study and graduate from RMIT. However, during this, I need to start find a job. Because after my study, I will go back to my country. I will start to write my CV and send it to the companies which I am interested in. I am really want to do some work about game. In the last semester, I learned a concept is Machinima. It means people use the game energy to make the films. So if someone want to make a machinima, he just need to find a game energy and add the script in it. This is still new for me, so I still to learn more knowledge about it. My already have two target companies. They are all Chinese companies and they all do the game work which include living game, game video and game promotion. These all attract me. In the end of this year, I will have one month there is no any work for me. So I plan to make another video with my friend which we are all interested in. And this is an extra project for me and we will start to do it when we submitted the last assessment.

Community practice is also a big part for me. However, I am just a student. It is really hard to let me know the people who worked in the media job. I only know my classmates and my teachers. But RMIT always have a lot of social work opportunity for us. It is really a good way to help me to meet people. The other way to help my community practice is the inter opportunity. Although it is really hard to find a formal job here, it is really easy to find a volunteer or inter job here. So I will try my best to catch up these opportunity when I meet these.

Strategic Diary 5

Our project is a dancing show. So the first target audience is dancer. We invite the professional dancer into our project. When the other dancer have a look with our project, they will have interest to watch more of our project. Second our project is talking about a love story about a young couple. So the modern young people will be our target audience as well. They will find a young couple how to experience a love story from meeting to fighting and back to love. The third target audience is the people who interested in the stage show. Our project is a live show, two dancers will dance in a studio. We will decorate it and make it looks like a stage. It is a big work and we have a lot of budget in it.

We also need to think about the platforms which we need to upload. We all think Youtube and Youku is our best choice. These two platform is the most popular videos station in the world. Youtube is popular in the world except China. And Youku is popular in China. Both platforms are extremely inclusive. Any types of videos can be posted on it, and there will be a lot of viewers can see. Let them serve as judges and get many suggestions. We also make a website for our project. The website include a lot of details of our project such as behind the screen and working list. The Youtube and Youku link will also appear in the website. The website is the central of our social media platform and the rest two links are the support way to help us to do the promotion work.

Strategic Diary 3

I am Pengbo Wang(Terence). My bachelor degree was media as well. In my bachelor college, I learned a lot of skills of editing. Such as PR, PS, AE and AU. When I graduated from my college, I found I want to be a director in the future so I decided to learn a postgraduate of media in RMIT. For this I also found a part time job in a Chinese company. I was a inter of project producer. In this experience, I gained a lot of skills of director such as how to arrange actors and how to control the crew. I also learned a lot of skills of to be a good camera man. In the future, I want to be a inter to join a crew or find a company to be assistant of director. This is the first step to help me to gain the experience form big company and big crew. If I have chance, I really want to make a film by myself. Only this way can let me know which part is my weekness.

Strategic Diary 2

When we prepare the first assessment of this project, we do not have a good plan for it. Because we did not have a full script for it. That is the reason why when we do the presentation for this pitch, our teacher will confused about it. She noticed that the roles of us is unclear and we listed a lot of useless equipment such as drown. She also confused about our main topic of our project. These points we have a deep discuss after the class. Although we all have a role in this crew, we do not think about why I want to be this role. Will it help me in the future? The feedback from our teacher is very useful. After that we discuss again and replan our project and make every details are specific which adapt for our project. And we also list the different roles which will used in this project and which position need what kind of skills. Then we all find a position which we all want to be.

Strategic Diary 1

In the last semester, we a big plan and an overview for this project. Our project name is ‘Deja Vu’. Our director told his opinion of this project. This is talking about a dancing video. However, it is not a normal one. We also have a script to apply in this  show. This is a love story which is talking about two strangers from meeting to falling love. During this story, they encountered some problems. They fight and do not talk anymore. Finally they forgive each other. In this show, although actors need to act the script, there is no any line. So the only way to show this is dancing. This is a very difficult part in this project. If actors can not have a good body language to show the script, audiences will not understand the whole show. The next step of our project is to design some body language to present our show.

In this crew, my main position is camera man. In the last semester, I did a lot of camera work in the class and other groups. So my skill of camera is good and I have confidence to finish this work. Camera man is very important in a crew. I need to have a good communication withe director and have a good understanding of him. Then I could shoot some good frame for this project. All crew need a good camera man. Even in some small crew, director always be the camera man as well. Because camera man need to follow the director’s mind. In the future, I will do the media work as well. The skill of camera is a very important skill to find a good job.

In this crew, my second position is editor. I will do the support work to help our director to finish editing work. Director is the soul of this project. That means my main work for editor is not editing the video. It is to add some effects in the video. Our project is shooting in a studio so we can not have a good view from the environment. That is the reason why we need to add more effect in the video which can help the video have a good version. That will attract the attention from audience.