Week 6’s workshop was an interesting one. After receiving our marks (something I want to improve for this second project, yet something I am starting to worry could be tricky) — we were asked to fill out a set of… Continue Reading →
This week’s Media 1 content links me back to week two of Film Studies — where we discussed the idea of a film’s form – that is – the structure implemented by a director upon the way a film unfolds. It also covered… Continue Reading →
This semester, I am taking the introductory course for the Popular Culture stream – COMM2633 (Pop Culture in Everyday Life). As part of the assessment for this course, we are required to create video blogs (aka “vlogs”) related to our… Continue Reading →
THIS POST CONTAINS LARGE AMOUNTS OF SPOILERS FOR CHRISTOPHER NOLAN’S ‘MEMENTO’. This film explores the idea of telling a narrative in a disjointed manner, and is certainly worth a watch for any fan of psychological thrillers. For this reason — if… Continue Reading →
It’s interesting to reflect upon this exercise. The first noticeable thing for me is how much brighter I sound once I get a coffee into me! After that, I realise how tricky it is to get a good… Continue Reading →
“You are not blogging enough” Awk. Yep. You got me. Perhaps it’s no excuse, but I was of the impression that my fellow students would find no interest in the strange things I find on Youtube at the wee hours… Continue Reading →
With all this talk about interviews for the PB3 assignment, it’s actually caused me to cast my mind back a few years. The year is 2013. Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines” is dominating radio airways. Most of my peers are in… Continue Reading →
Wow, are we meant to have our interviewees ready? Mine lives an hour away and is about to head in for surgery #PrayForGallBladder This weeks workshop was – once again – a little bit of sitting in class; a little… Continue Reading →
Week 5 brought us to the idea of textual analysis — that is, the idea of interpreting the meanings of a media ‘text’. This is not unlike the textual analysis I was forced to slave away at during the latter… Continue Reading →
So thinking back to week four (seeing as I’m a slacker who has allowed myself to get this far behind) — we were talking about sound. At the time I was struggling to get good case connections, but I think… Continue Reading →
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