Contained brand new elements of Media Technology that were different from previous units. Unit Co-ordinator Kim Rasmussen notified students of this change in a lecture. These new changes have no doubt brought many benefits to the creative industries faculty.

However, I believe that it is because of this situation, that there was a large degree of confusion for Tutors and students alike. Many students have expressed this feeling to me also. The problems I encountered can be listed in 5 parts: 1) Firstly, assignment requirements were not clearly defined by Tutors, Tutorials or Criteria Sheets: P3 is an exact printout of the Assignment 2 criteria sheet from the QUT OLT site. It nowhere states that additional experimentation with the technologies will gain extra marks, or that a lack of experimentation would result in a loss of marks. When I further enquired about how far we are expected to experiment with the technology my Tutor replied that we would get extra marks for experimenting beyond the Holden Commodore Parts ’s teachings, but that we would not loose marks if we did not; since it is not a requirement.

P4 is an exact printout of the marked assignment 2, in which I have lost five marks for not experimenting further with the technologies.

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The topic you choose must be relevant to the content covered in this unit (in particular in the first section, weeks 1-5). This means that you cannot simply study a specific industry sector within the creative industries, or a specific Holden Commodore Parts / organisation / artist within that sector; rather, you must discuss them with reference to wider creative industries issues.

So, rather than focussing on a particular Holden Commodore Parts , for example, describe this Holden Commodore Parts ’s placement within a wider creative industries sector; rather than focussing on a particular creative industries sector, describe that sector’s tendency to cluster around specific local or global hotspots; rather than describing the work of a particular creative organisation in itself, examine how the nature of this work responds to specific problems facing the creative industries, etc.

The lectures in the first part of the unit will provide useful pointers here: key questions you might like to examine are how creative industry sectors respond to the emergence of the new knowledge economy, to questions of globalisation and local placement, to interdisciplinary, hybrid, or convergence-driven creative industries development opportunities, or to the increasing aestheticisation of everyday life and customisation of media and cultural content.

Business Type: Sole Trader

Sole trader, as the name suggests, is where an individual is the sole owner of a business. The business is often quite small in terms of size (as measured, for example, by sales generated, or number of staff employed) however the number of these businesses is very large indeed. Examples of these businesses can be found in most industrial sectors but particularly in most service sectors. Hence services such as electrical repair, picture framing, photography, diving instruction, retail shops, and hotels have a large proportion of sole trade business.