Yesterday I was meant to go to class to try and sort out the annotated bibliography parts with the boys. It would’ve been the first time we’d met as a group in a few weeks. Unfortunately for me, I was feeling quite ill, and the lesson was quite the reverse of last week in that the others were this time and I wasn’t. I felt really bad.
That said, I messaged Dylan and asked him to update me on what was happening. I must say, he did so brilliantly, a few minutes after my first message stating:
“We’re talking about our findings, and hopefully by the end of the day we’ll have some direction in what we want to do with this project. Rachel wants a ‘prototype’ of our media artefact by next week, so we really need to figure out a bare bones structure for this.”
I think the communication in our group has made up for the lack of meetings, although we’re going to need to start grounding our project in more research otherwise our topic will really lack substance.
By the end of the day, Dylan and Ariff came up with the idea of creating a website to display all our information on. I believe they’ll be using the media factory host site for which this blog is located on. Dylan said this in his email.
“After careful consideration, we’ve decided to place the emphasis on Ariff’s case study, so this means a change in setup and focus.
We will now be looking at a comparison of Malaysian and Australian (or Western) news. The Malaysian culture still uses a conceptually broadcast era media format to present their news, with the vast majority of news being told through a single, Government run news program once a night, broadcasting to a mass audience. We can compare this to the post-broadcast western culture, which has many different news programs available for very specific demographics, as well as a higher level of reliance on internet based news.
To go with this, the new format of the site will scrap a lot of the ideas based on audience theory. However, it will allow us to expand upon ideas of the mass audience in Malaysia against the highly individualised media that Western culture has. We can also briefly talk about censorship and the wider range of content available to Western audiences, as this forms much of the media-audience relationship that we have. A large emphasis will be placed on this comparison on the ‘broadcast vs. post-broadcast’ era.
The character bio element at this point will most likely stay, we’ll decide what we want to include in this in the future.
Due to the change, I’ll wait out on making the project timeline, and we can discuss all of this further in our meeting Tuesday. The one focus will allow us to find a more fitting visual style to the site (which apparently must be through media factory).
That’s it for today guys, make sure you put your annotated bibliographies in the dropbox by tomorrow night at the very latest. Have a think and maybe do some research before our meeting next week.”
Sounds like a plan. Until next week.