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Month March 2017

Project Brief 2: Self-portrait

I named my video as “Me, Myself and I” because it straightforwardly tells my audience this video is about my life. I split the video into 4 parts. The first 3 parts are basically showing my 3 biggest hobbies, and… Continue Reading →

How I got passionate to photography

  We discussed about Cal Newport “Follow your passion is bad” in both lecture and workshop this week. He said we should think about what we should do after we get going instead of how are we going to start…. Continue Reading →

Learn from others and gain more knowledge

In this week’s workshop, we shared our final cut (or nearly final cut) within our groups. However this time we didn’t just give each other feedbacks, we also shared our experience making this video. For example where did we find… Continue Reading →

Follow your passion…….?

In the beginning of the video, Cal Newport mentioned an idea of “follow your passion” will get you to love what you do for living, but he denied this statement right after he mentioned it because it is wrong. In my… Continue Reading →

Do more than what’s required

During the week 3 workshop, we looked at a few examples of project brief 2 done by other students. I realized one thing. They all had more footage than me. The requirement of our project brief 2 assessment was to… Continue Reading →

The importance of “closure”

In this week’s reading, we read a comic about “closure”, it talked about how its used and the definition of it, and it got me thinking about its importance in media. According to Scott McCloud, ‘Blood In The Gutter’ closure is… Continue Reading →

Feedbacks can really help you to improve

In this week’s workshop, we shared our ideas and rough-cut of PB2 assessment within our groups after our teacher showed us examples of other students’ PB2 video. I found the examples look quite different with my rough cut, because they… Continue Reading →

My Haiku exercise

Creating is more powerful than writing/saying

David Gauntlett, ‘Introduction‘ to Making Media Studies “It’s about being hands-on, which means it’s still about ideas and critical engagement, but expressed through making things rather than just writing arguments. (We can still write too, of course, but the writing might… Continue Reading →

What makes a self-portrait?

Self-portrait can be made of many different things. It can be a selfie, a painted portrait, or different elements that makes you who you are. This week we shared our self-portrait assessment with our group members. The diversity of self-portrait… Continue Reading →

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