In this self portrait of mine every single picture, footage and sound recording even down to the video transitions they all resemble a part of me whether it is my favourite thing to eat, to do or just my characteristics, i tried to make it as personal as possible. Although without reading the brief, by just watching the video, it might not make sense at all and just seem a little wacky but it’s perfect because that’s me.

The photos i used in the order of its appearance were 1. a picture of a polaroid of myself pretty exposed. Actually a before photo for my  fitness journey that only begun recently. 2. People from church praying 3.My first ever camcorder 4.Underwater in swimming pool 5. Ice-cream Sundae

Video footages in the order of appearance: 1. Birthday cake of my best friends 21st 2. myself rolling my eyes 3.mirrorball 4brushing my teeth 5. singing 6. running on treadmill

Sound recording in the order on appearance: 1. Myself saying Hi in Korean 2. Myself playing the keyboard 3. Sound of rummaging through the fridge

Text: Love never fails 

I wanted to set my tone of the self portrait very light hearted and fun. I just collected all the photos and documents of myself that were taken in the past few weeks and compiled it together in a way it was aesthetically pleasing but also had an interesting twist to it. I made a lot of effort to sync the images going on and off or video transitions to match with the beat of the sound which created nice rhythms in some parts.

The video can be divided into 2.  The 2parts can be distinguished by the background music. The first part reflects more of my interior self and my natural state very calming and the other part reflects a different side of a more cheery and energetic outgoing self. The colour scheme is glitter, hot pink and black.

The most successful part would be the opening sequence. The birthday cake and us singing happy birthday till the candles are blown out then i say hello in Korean, The birthday concept symbolises a new beginning and the most unsuccessful part would be the first image because as it is zoomed in during edit the quality is truly bad and theres so much of myself i could’ve showed some more of other things that is not my face.

Ok Gilmore Girls is way too good. I am officially hooked. Everyone like the whole town’s so cute and friendly and the whole mother and daughter relationship is just adoring. I love them so much i want to name my daughter Lorelai. I love how Rory’s best friend Lane is Korean considering how old that show came out i think they did a really good job with creating diversity within the show. Their friendship is just so heart warming to watch and i bet it encourages kids who watch the show to be non racist and just nice to each other. I think it’s the show that has the most realistic but funny script  and i think the writer is freakishly talented. I love each and every character in the show but my favourite will be Paris. She’s so damn competitive but she owns it and i sympathise a lot with her when it comes to being a bit self-conscious next to such a perfect friend like Rory. I can’t wait to see their friendship grow and I already know that Luke and Lorelai gets together but it’s just so fun to watch them flirt and pretend like their just friends and all… Someday i would like to create media that will be as heart warming and entertain like the Gilmore Girls 🙂

D I E P

Reflecting on the light bulb learning moments

D – Describe objectively one thing you  learn (What did i learn?)

I – Interpret the insight  (Why is this important to the course?/Professional development)

E – Evaluate the usefulness and effectiveness of the learning (How useful is this new understanding that i learned?

P – Plan how this information will be useful to you (How might this learning apply to me in the future?)

Reflecting on todays morning Rhetoric and Politics tutorial

D – I have learnt today that democracy, theoretically means that we have freedom we are free to speak free to vote who we want but it is actually more of an institutional arrangement. The balance between freedom and responsibility is very important.

I -Democracy is important to understand no more like crucial when studying this course because we live in a democratic society and i think it’s important to understand our society’s politics as it is deeply related to everything

E – It is very useful as from now when i watch the news about new legislations and proposals i can evaluate whether as the democracy society we live in it would benefit us or restrain us?

P – I will apply this in my future by further studying it and i can take the information about democracy into consideration when i vote.

Honestly because i haven’t gone very deep into the learning of democracy but that was the most memorable learning as i have always thought ourselves to be enjoying our freedom but turns out there are all these laws that restrict us from our freedom but that are there to protect us.

This weeks reading – The clarity of the Craftsman

The two different approaches on thinking about your working life

Passion mindset – focusing on what the world can offer, swamp of ambiguous and unanswerable questions

Craft mans mindset– focusing on what you can offer the world, offers clarity

What kind of mindset do i have right now and which of those two mindsets do i want to have? From reading the story about the guitarist and all, the craft mans mindset does seem more preferable. Digging one thing that you love so much you become an expert at it. However If by having a crafts man mindset i’d receive clarity and i won’t be looking at any other options past opportunities to explore something other than whatever i’m mastering then I don’t think i’d want to. How do you just choose one thing and decide to love it? Because even when you do think you love it you might not and you might change your mind so i think its good to be open to what the world offers as well as doing what you love to do.

Passion mindset or craft mans mindset. Whichever mindset it doesn’t matter to me  as long as i can

‘create something meaningful and presenting it to the world’

Because this is exactly what I’d like to do and what I’d like to learn how to do! So i’ll practice really hard and then i’ll be..

so good that they can’t ignore you

https://youtu.be/omJPf6AqtPU

Directed a 2min short ad for a church camp. The purpose of it was to inform our church members about the camp that is happening over the Easter holidays and inviting them all to come along. The language is in Korean. The opening title says ‘Life of Miss A’ and starts off with shots of  hard working ‘miss A’at her workplace a clothes alteration store. The second scene is when she gets back from work  out in her balcony, staring out into the night sky she says to herself how she needs to take a rest from her busy life.  Then comes the camp logos (sHim) on top of pictures of the camp site and information about the camp. The Logo which means ‘to rest’ in English pronounced as ‘shim’ contains the word Him in it which refers to God which is why the H is a capital hence the overall meaning being ‘to rest within God’. There’s also a snippet of the guest speaker man telling us how excited he is to be preaching us at the camp. At the end it goes back to ‘miss A’ out in the balcony with a caption that says ‘Yeah i should go to the camp’ then comes inside with a light hearted joke. I had fun making it and I definitely got to practise a lot of my editing skills.

Blood in the gutter – Scotland mccloud

Categories of panel to panel transitions in comics

1. Moment to moment
2. Action to action (good for connected series of event and shows it in a concise and efficient way)
3. Subject to subject
4. Scene to scene (same as 2.)
5. Aspect to aspect (nothing happens, rarely seen in Western comics)
6. Non sequitur (Often used to set up a certain mood or a sense of place)

Western art and literature

• doesn’t wander much as for the goal oriented culture

East

• Cyclical and labyrinthine works of art
• Emphasise on being there over getting there

The more intense the closure between the panels become the more flexible the readers interpretation becomes. The closure can create

A Haiku poem: Japanese poem that consists of 3 sentences with a 5-7-5 syllables structure.

Sometimes slowing down

is okay but just don’t stop

and ready set go 

This was my attempt at the haiku poem but didn’t really turn out to be a poem more like one sentence broken up into three parts. The 5-7-5 syllable structure’s definitely there though.

I used music provided by Brian from the shared google doc folder and credited it at the end. The opening title ‘Haiku’ positioned vertically resembles the Japanese feel of a Haiku poem since traditional Japanese literature were written vertically.

The poem was inspired by the footage of the traffic lights turning red, orange and green. The rest of the footages of the buildings were cut short and assembled that way to create rhythm and add variety. I also tried to composite the texts and footages as interesting as possible and at the same time to sync to the music.

However overall one thing I wish I could better would be the quality of the video. I think because during the process of scaling up some of the the framesizes of the footages, the resolution just failed.

The Australian: Bill Leak

http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/programs/hack/why-i-took-bill-leak-cartoon-to-the-human-rights-commission/8030268

In my Rhetorics and Politics class we had a look at this article about un upset 25year old indigenous student named Melissa Denisson. How she took the cartoon shown above which portrays an Aboriginal man with a beer can not remembering his son’s name, to the Human Rights Commission as it made her feel degraded and humiliated, to the point she couldn’t eat or sleep. Then the National chief correspondent of the Australian, Hedley Thomas though an interview with ‘Hack’ expressed his thoughts on her response to the cartoon as grossly exaggerated.

Originally the reason why we had a look at this media piece (the cartoon) was to discuss whether it was a logos, pathos or an ethos. In my opinion it is strongly pathos as my first response to this cartoon was anger and sadness. As coming from the Northern Territory i subconsciously got to observe and experience the culture and lifestyle of the indigenous community which is why perhaps i felt more strongly against the cartoon. So was Melissa’s action and feelings a gross exaggeration as Hedley Thomas has said? Or could he  say that because he has no relations to the Indigenous Australians and therefore is impossible for him to feel any sort of empathy towards the misfortunes they have gone through and still experiences till this day.

The cartoon was definitely successful in creating a controversy looking at how many complaints it has received (over 700) by the Australian press council and i guess that is what every mediated text wishes for these days to grab more of the publics attention. I understand that it raises awareness of Australia’s current affairs in a flavourful way but in this case i think that the somehow attacking satirical criticism was perhaps aimed at the wrong target. As for all i know the Indigenous Australian fathers are not the ones who condoned or directly set up such unsafe and deprived environment of the Northern Territory Youth detention centre, so it seems to me that the Australians have abused their authority in disguise of delivering a satirical point which was heavily subjective to make the audience blame the wrong target; then when people got offended and opposed to their ‘humour’, instead of trying to understand where they are coming from and politely excuse themselves they just made them seem like a bunch of drama queens.

Our group of 5 Andy, Andrew, Rebekah, Bridie and i were designated to go to Southbank to observe and record all mediated interactions we come across.

These are the results

UP high:

• Advertising for Moomba festival up on a flag post

Mid-ground:

• Charity Organisation Oxfam handing out flyers with their information and asking to signup on their iPads.
• Busker on street with a handmade like me on Facebook cardboard sign

Foreground:

• Free stress test stall to advertise their anxiety book

Background:

• Promotion magnet/sticker on a fridge at the river bar we had our break at.
• Huge iPad looking monitor at Mcdonalds with motion graphics advertisement
• Southbank newspaper at Mcdonalds

In our hand

• access to Facebook, Instagram on our phones approximately 32 times as a group

The sound recording of the fridge door opening and shutting resembles my huge appetite for food, the keyboard playing was myself playing the keyboard and it shows my love for practising music and lastly the Korean speaking voice was again myself introducing myself in Korean as it reflects my background and my heritage.

The videos were of my best friend and i just goofing around with snapchat filters, my mum in the dress room while getting ready for her wedding and a footage i took as i got on a plane to Sydney. These videos show the important people in my life who are the biggest part of me and also my life of travelling.

The images are a collection of my hobby, favourite destinations, a portrayal of my characteristics of being adventurous but also like to relax and almost always late for something.

The text encapsulates my religion and beliefs and my interest in hiphop culture.