I started the Haiku (which I realized I should’ve done earlier), and I’ve had to start re-familiarizing myself with Adobe Premiere. After figuring out the basics, I was able to create a small draft which consisted of the structure of the video. I was then…

Marking the end of the third week of my second first year, I finished off the the Media 1 seminar. Now that the ice was completely broken, things were starting to get real. We started off with a relatively detailed discussion about the readings for…

For this weeks Cinema screenings, we watched a series of French and Australian Experimental films. I’m not really a fan of the whole experimental film scene, and so this weeks watch was a little bit tough for me, but I understand the appeal and the…

After watching David Gauntlett’s short video on Media from a different point of view, I had a better understanding of Media being a network. Gauntlett described how we need to look at media differently due to the media revolution. In the 1980s, media studies focused…

In our Media 1 Practical, we were split up into groups where we each showed each other parts of our self portraits we made over the week. Each person was assigned a hat from four of Edward De Bono’s thinking hats: Yellow: positivity and optimism…

Scott McCloud’s Blood in the Gutter was definitely not the comic I was expecting.  It really made me think about how much we rely on something called closure. McCloud describes closure as observing fragments of a particular something, but being able to perceive the complete…

https://www.flickr.com/photos/139205167@N03/shares/k7s483 One thing that people tend to comment on about me is my taste in various music genres. https://www.flickr.com/photos/139205167@N03/shares/jaK2G1 I tend to just buy poster whenever I see them being sold. Now I have more than I know what to do with. Each poster reminds…

After watching Leo Carax’s Holy Motors for the first time, I thought to myself, “this is it, the first movie I’ve watched that I can’t find any sort of meaning to”. It was truly an odd piece of work. But I later went on to…

I’ve always been fascinated at how films don’t just rely on the characters to progress the story. As a big movie buff, for me, the editing is one of the main things that makes or breaks the film. I’ve sat through movies where the concept…

Even though I did find Cal Newport’s research interesting, I struggled to relate to anything he said. I feel like he spoke too generally, as if everyone has an identical brain structure to him (and Steve Jobs). Personally, his advice on working on something until…