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Institutions – Week 10 Reading

Social media is saturating our everyday lives.  We use it for entertainment, debates, sourcing information and many more.  Social media has changed the way social institutions are utilised through news coverage, journalism and politics.  It is changing the world particularly in terms… Continue Reading →

Revisiting Hypertext – Week 10 Reading

Audience – a valued member of any form of production or media.  This seems like a common theme throughout all of my readings at the moment.  How an audience is seemingly more important than the creator.  How an audiences’ vision… Continue Reading →

Improvised Collaboration- Week 7 Reading

I feel like this reading was prescribed this week to get us to start thinking about the essence of team work and the importance that developing these skills will have on the rest of our career. The reading speaks about… Continue Reading →

Non-Narrative- Week 7 Reading

The vast majority of documentaries are structured in the form of a narrative.  Narrative is generally quite easy to follow and is what most of us have been raised reading or watching e.g. Disney fairytales.  Although, there are other types… Continue Reading →

“Social Media and the Future of Political Narrative.” Week 7

The World Wide Web is a tool for global communication.  This actually links to my pop culture topic that I’m studying at the moment– globalisation and how the world’s reduction in size due to transport and communication has created global… Continue Reading →

The Discipline of Noticing

I love that noticing is such a mundane and everyday act that we are unintentionally trained to do since being born through cognitive development, but it is also such a complex act that maybe we actually have no idea how to… Continue Reading →

Directing the Documentary

Today is been a day of structure.  We  spent our Lectorial learning about the structure of narrative and story telling and this weeks reading was also (unsurprisingly) based on the structure of stories.  Particularly, we are looking at documentary and how… Continue Reading →

A Beginner’s Guide to Textual Analysis- Week 5 Reading

What is textual analysis?  Okay, this is not going to be a straightforward discussion.  I have a feeling (by briefly skimming the text) that this is going to be a deeper and more informative reading than I could have imagined as a… Continue Reading →

Hypertext- Week 5 Reading- NetMed

“We must write with an awareness that we are writing in the presence of other texts.” -Landow, George P. Hypertext 3.0: Critical Theory and New Media in an Era of Globalization. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2006. Print. It’s like… Continue Reading →

Dynamic or Condenser? Week 4 Reading- Media 1

For week 4 and 5 we have been looking into sound.  Sound has come across as a more fundamental and important element to film and video production than I could ever have imagined.  Microphones are everywhere.  Picking up sound for… Continue Reading →

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