Editing is both the last and one of the most powerful opportunities the producer has to influence whether a program will communicate the information it was meant to convey successfully, and whether it will affect the emotions and moods of… Continue Reading
Factual programming Drama vs documentary binary Both conventions use narrative storytelling techniques – characters, conflict, climax, emotional identification All fiction emerges from non-fiction The special relationship to truth Factual information is one kind of truth Personal or ‘subjective’ truth Content… Continue Reading
Broadcast media is a subset of mass media (not magazines, internet, newspapers). It is also a transmission of signals from a central source received by dispersed receivers over a large geographical area. Television – exploits the fact there is a… Continue Reading
When we perform textual analysis on a text, we make an educated guess at some of the most likely interpretations that might be made of that text Textual analysis is a methodology: a way of gathering and analysing information in… Continue Reading
Production is like improvised performance.. it’s demanding, exciting, challenging, and terrifying… a dance over the gap between your expectations of what will happen – and what actually transpires Things you are thinking about in field= Participants (talent/subject) Location The technology… Continue Reading
Here i am going to discuss 5 blog posts i have made in semester 1 of media 1 which show my engagement in the course. Firstly, this course is a course which changes each lectorial, so there have been several different… Continue Reading
The lecture today made me think about how media affects our brains after Dan asked the question; Does technology dictate society and culture? Or are we as humans in charge of how technology progresses? This video is pretty interesting:
Humanity is in charge of its own future, we can dictate how fast we want technology and media to go because we create it. If we want to have a world which is obsessed with media and not authentic, we… Continue Reading
Todays lecture by Dan discussed technology, technique and culture. Here are some of the most interesting notes i wrote down from todays lecture = Culture: Identifying subgroups within population The world as culture, humankind Art, theatre, cinema: creative expression Culture is… Continue Reading
Extracts from A. Murphy and J. Potts (2002), Culture and Technology (Palgrave MacMillan) What is technology? The current range of meanings of the word ‘technology’ arose in the modern era. ‘Technology’was used sparingly in the seventeenth and eighteenth centurires, referring to a… Continue Reading