Two recent Curtin graduates have been rewarded for their initiative by taking out a community television award in Melbourne last month.<\/p>\n
Kirk Goodsell and Melanie Dimmitt’s lifestyle talk show The Red Room<\/em> was judged Most Outstanding Personal Development Program<\/em> at the Melbourne Antenna Awards, and also picked up a nomination for Outstanding Young Person’s Program<\/em>.<\/p>\n ‘It was fantastic,’ Kirk said.<\/p>\n ‘It was nice just to get nominated for the two categories because there are so many shows on Channel 31 in Melbourne.’<\/p>\n The pair made the move east in 2007 after graduating from Curtin with communications degrees in the hope of breaking into the Australian television industry.<\/p>\n The Red Room<\/em> came about when Kirk and Mel decided to take matters into their own hands in regards to getting them noticed in the industry.<\/p>\n ‘We thought instead of sitting around waiting for our agents to call us with something, we’d go out and create our own show,’ Kirk says.<\/p>\n The duo put their heads together to come up with The Red Room’s<\/em> magazine\/lifestyle-show-for-teenagers premise and made a pilot of the show. Channel 31 bosses were impressed enough to pick up the show for a season which screened in September 2008.<\/p>\n Kirk, who also produced as well as presented the show, said he had learned many crucial lessons over the course of the program’s first season on air.<\/p>\n ‘Presenting and being in front of the camera is one thing, but producing as well is a whole other thing. I had to learn to coordinate things like the technical department with the scriptwriting department, learning things like that was invaluable.’<\/p>\n The show appears to have achieved its goal of promoting its hosts, with Kirk scoring a guest role in an episode in Channel 7 drama City Homicide<\/em>. He said it was a great experience to be on a professional set.<\/p>\n ‘Just to see the equipment, I mean we had to make The Red Room<\/em> on a budget of $3000. I could hold the camera we used in my hand; the Channel 7 camera was bigger than me… and I’m 6’1′ he laughed.<\/p>\n Season two of The Red Room<\/em> is currently on hold due to Melanie being overseas; however Kirk is planning a new show, similar in format to The Red Room<\/em> but aimed at Melbourne’s gay population. Kirk is hopeful the new show may reach a greater audience than his previous show.<\/p>\n ‘Melbourne has quite a prominent gay community. There are lots of gay magazines and a gay radio station. So we’re going to try and use all that as support to hopefully get the new show on a commercial network.’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Curtin graduates have been rewarded for their initiative by taking out a community television award in Melbourne last month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_research-areas":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"research-areas":[],"class_list":["post-4586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-and-global-community"],"acf":{"post_options":{"":null,"additional_content":{"title":"","content":"","image":false},"related_courses":false,"credits":{"author":"","photographer":"","media":false},"display_author":true,"banner":{"image":false}}},"featured_image":false,"author_meta":{"first_name":"Jarrad","last_name":"Long","display_name":"Jarrad Long"},"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-24 10:57:28","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4586"},{"taxonomy":"research-areas","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research-areas?post=4586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}