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3.No part of this assessment has been written for me/us by any other person except where such collaboration has been authorised by the lecturer/teacher concerned.

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I understand that:

• Plagiarism is the presentation of the work, idea or creation of another person as though it is your own. It is a form of cheating and is a very serious academic offence that may lead to exclusion from the University. Plagiarised material can be drawn from, and presented in, written, graphic and visual form, including electronic data and oral presentations. Plagiarism occurs when the origin of the material used is not appropriately cited.
• Plagiarism includes the act of assisting or allowing another person to plagiarise or to copy my work.

I agree and acknowledge that:

1. I have read and understood the Declaration and Statement of Authorship above.
2. I accept that use of my RMIT account to electronically submit this assessment constitutes my agreement to the Declaration and Statement of Authorship
3. If I do not agree to the Declaration and Statement of Authorship in this context, the assessment outcome is not valid for assessment purposes and cannot be included in my aggregate score for this course.

Further information relating to the penalties for plagiarism, which range from a notation on your student file to expulsion from the University, is contained in Regulation 6.1.1 Student Discipline and Plagiarism Policy which are available on the Policies and procedures website.

Declaration and statement of authorship

1.I have not impersonated, or allowed myself to be impersonated by any person for the purposes of this assessment.

2.This assessment is my/our original work and no part of it has been copied from any other source except where due acknowledgement is made.

3.No part of this assessment has been written for me/us by any other person except where such collaboration has been authorised by the lecturer/teacher concerned.

4.I have not previously submitted this work for this or any other course/unit.

5.I give permission for my assessment response to be reproduced, communicated compared and archived for the purposes of detecting plagiarism.

6.I give permission for a copy of my assessment to be retained by the university for review and comparison, including review by external examiners.

I understand that:

• Plagiarism is the presentation of the work, idea or creation of another person as though it is your own. It is a form of cheating and is a very serious academic offence that may lead to exclusion from the University. Plagiarised material can be drawn from, and presented in, written, graphic and visual form, including electronic data and oral presentations. Plagiarism occurs when the origin of the material used is not appropriately cited.
• Plagiarism includes the act of assisting or allowing another person to plagiarise or to copy my work.

I agree and acknowledge that:

1. I have read and understood the Declaration and Statement of Authorship above.
2. I accept that use of my RMIT account to electronically submit this assessment constitutes my agreement to the Declaration and Statement of Authorship
3. If I do not agree to the Declaration and Statement of Authorship in this context, the assessment outcome is not valid for assessment purposes and cannot be included in my aggregate score for this course.

Further information relating to the penalties for plagiarism, which range from a notation on your student file to expulsion from the University, is contained in Regulation 6.1.1 Student Discipline and Plagiarism Policy which are available on the Policies and procedures website.

BRYDAN MEREDITH, s3547569

A big shift in my learning occurred this year as I moved from the Secondary School paradigm, to a new, freer, more independently driven university environment. In Media 1 there were many different opportunities to learn in versatile and unique ways. In terms of media making, a big learning curve occurred from Project Brief 2 to Project Brief 3. I began to understand that good media making is about communicating specific ideas in abstract, interesting yet comprehensible ways. My first two projects were very straight laced, straight forward; whereas my third project didn’t hand feed the audience meaning, in order for them to read it in a narrow, specific way. I instead embedded meaning less explicitly in my ambiguous yet purposeful work. This shift demonstrates that I learn effectively from experience, from creating.

I found that the theoretical work gave me scope that informed my creative work. A question that bothered me early in the course was ‘What is media?’ It’s such a broad term that’s difficult to pin a set definition on. As I did the various readings such as Scott Mcloud’s ‘Blood in the Gutter’ and Jay Rosens ‘The people formerly known as the audience’ I developed a broader understanding of not only Medias place in the world, but what constitutes Media. After doing the readings weekly I began to understand the importance of noticing, and why we did it so early on in the course. It gave me a broad scope in which to view media. The fact that media is not only in our hands, homes and pockets but in the ‘outside’ environment, emphasised just how broad and important media is in today’s society, even in the physical design of our world. For me, this was not so much of a light-bulb moment but a culmination of the readings and lectorials, which weekly delved into the effects media, has (and has had) in various, diverse aspects of the world.

A key challenge I had was picking out meanings from various readings and looking at how they applied to Media 1. It’s very easy to do a reading and not search for its relevance or understand its context in the course. However towards the end of this semester, I began to see how the readings all fitted in together- that Eduardo Navas’s article on remix culture is strongly correlated to Joshua Meyrowitz’s article ‘Medium Theory: An Alternative to the Dominant Paradigm of Media Effects’. They both relate to the evolution of media and how it has been individualised and streamlined creating the post-broadcast era.

Converting ideas into a media artefact was also a challenge, it’s easy to explicitly write down ideas, but the actual application of the idea (in a creative way) was harder. I found that in terms of my own creative practice, it is best to experiment with the medium I am producing my work in and see what works whilst in the process of creation (instead of umming and arrrring) over how to go about conveying the idea pre-production.

My 5 Blog Posts

Number 1: http://www.mediafactory.org.au/brydan-meredith/2015/05/20/week-11-the-reading/

Number 2: http://www.mediafactory.org.au/brydan-meredith/2015/05/20/week-10-institutions-reading/

Number 3: http://www.mediafactory.org.au/brydan-meredith/2015/05/20/week-8-the-lectorial/

Number 4: http://www.mediafactory.org.au/brydan-meredith/2015/04/13/week-3-blog-reading-tagged-case-study/

Number 5: http://www.mediafactory.org.au/brydan-meredith/2015/04/13/media-lectorial-2/

My Learning Graph

1 is green, 2 is purple, 3 is red and 4 is yellow.