For our lectorial this week, we each individually received a beating for not writing enough blog posts. Just kidding, but we were given a serious talk about having to write more. It was helpful because they then explained the rules we have to follow, and…

Hello my fellow film people! I just thought I’d share some YouTube channels with you that have really helped me with short films in the past. https://www.youtube.com/user/filmriot/videos – If you can get past the super lame humor, then Film Riot can be really helpful. They…

Problem  1: Don’t you just hate it when the interviewee has joined their ‘ums’/’uhhs’ to the end of their previous word? I know it’s just a natural thing we do, but-aarrrgh, it’s just frustrating to work with. At least my subject didn’t really do it…

The topic we just studied in Introduction to Cinema studies was on ‘Cinematography’. And who better to study than David Fincher? So we were made to watch Zodiac, which, I had seen before, but happily watched again anyway. Now, I can’t say that this is…

Last weeks seminar was pretty much the usual, we discussed the readings, and were given a small project to work on. We were, however given a serious talk about how we need to up our game with these blog posts. They say ‘minimum four per…

I think I got my readings mixed up. Although the title of this is ‘Week 5 Reading 2’, this is indeed about Reading 1 (I have already written about Reading 2). But anyway, I’ll keep this one short and sweet, as we pretty much discussed…

This weeks lectorial was about textual analysis. The main discussion was about what aspects we have to look at when analyzing a text. Basically, the key aspects are: Sign/signifier/signified – can be visual, linguistic, aural, or a combination of all Denotation – the literal meaning…

They say, “a picture paints a thousand words”. According to Victor Burgin, a picture can also assist in conveying the message from a thousand words. This week’s reading, and excerpt from Burgin’s Thinking Photography, explains how images convey a message through symbolism. While this reading…

So, for our Media 1 seminar, we were given a small task that involved the use of H2N Recorders. The task was to record an interview on a choice of three topics: What I like about RMIT City Campus RMIT Library – different spaces and…

So, in our Media 1 seminar this week, we watched each others self portraits.Looking around the room, I noticed that everyone had the exact same reactions as each other when their own video came up. Personally, I thought they were all well done, even though…