Amelia Walkley (a.k.a. write_typer) interviews a Vibewire Media Makers mentor Matt Clayfield and participant Michelle Woods through two social media platforms, Twitter and Facebook.

‘m’ alliteration abounds and through the two sites, two different sides of the one story are told.

How do you harness the present to instigate change for the future? What’s in store for you and your community? The Digital Stories workshop, run by Bea Harrison and Janine Cahill, discussed future trends, technologies, and social & cultural changes that will shape the future. The participants developed stories about the kind of future they want to create for themselves, their organisations, and their communities.
Watch these powerful stories of futures imagined by the Media Makers:
Efrosini: Diversity
Jack’s Awesome Thing
Omar’s Digital Story
Jade: Disposable
Richard: Espionage Poetry

Tuesday 16th March 2010: 3rd Meeting with my mentor
I met with Matt for the third time today, at Badde Manors cafe in Glebe – a totally ace joint, complete with yummy food and wait-staff I can most accurately classify as ‘eye-candy’ (this adds a whole ‘nother level to my enthusiasm for our meetings).
Matt is a completely freakin’ ace mentor – helpful advice, entertaining (and useful) links, as well as heaps of support and ideas. He’s also particularly good at keeping my procrastination in check – meaning that I typically rush …

Ideas amplifying my social issue of stigma connected to Schizophrenia. Pounding my brain for imaginative creativity that would show people what it is like for people to have a Mental illness. Composing a creative, yet learning experience, to be produced in a short film, article, opinion piece and photographs. All seem to be generated so fast with the help of Vibewire.
With a mind spinning over how much to get through with almost no experience in digital media. The mentor kindly calms me down, helping me sort through the disharmony by …

Hello Reader,
Welcome to my first blog. Sure it may be three weeks over due but hey, it’s here.
I’m really not sure what else to say so… Three weeks ago myself along with seven other wonderful individuals, started on the Vibewire multi-media road. The road began with a get to know each other and your mentor’s day. After which we went straight into the wide world of multi-media, in the hopes of being better able to adapt our own unique creations.
The first lesson taken was in writing for visual media. Not …

So I’ve finally gotten round to posting a blog for the Media Makers program.
Back in the day (senior highschool) I was crazy about creative writing. I was pretty keen on serious journalistic articles – I think this enthusiasm was driven by the 9/11 terrorists attacks, the war in iraq and the Cronulla Riots.
My project for media makers stems from these issues and looks at the (widening?) gap between eastern and western cultures in Australia. Specifically Australian Muslims in Sydney. I’ve decided to convey this in a couple of ways; an …