Category Media 1

While undertaking the first semester of my media course I have learned many things, from beginning to use premiere pro, to the intricacies of pre-production, production and collaboration. In the first few projects I was given a bigger scope in… Continue Reading →

Our group was able to work cohesively in the planning and creation of our final media product named ‘The Power of Remix’, which we decided would be a remix of found footage and our own voice-overs creating a documentary/analysis style… Continue Reading →

Machines are becoming too intuitive/intelligent. Seriously, we’ve seen it in how many movies??? I could list hundreds, such as I-robot, Blade runner, Terminator, The Matrix and so on where they get the better of humanity. I’m not saying it’s around… Continue Reading →

In our final Media 1 workshop, my group uploaded the second half of the text excluding the conclusion(making up the second draft), which had a few changes including the addition of new footage and voice-over discussing the new era of… Continue Reading →

How do we know whether a film is a documentary? A documentary usually comes labelled as such. The filmmakers may also tell us through publicity, and press coverage reinforces the message as well. In turn, the labeling of something as… Continue Reading →

Following more research, my group and I decided to focus on ‘remixing’ itself in texts, rather than advertising, as we can incorporate a number of mediums and formats. We set to work on find material to mash-up and created voice… Continue Reading →

Following heavy brainstorming and discussions about our project based around the topic ‘texts’ in our first few meetings, my group for this assessment first decided to focus on advertising, and how these ‘texts’ show meaning and influence audiences. We planned… Continue Reading →

I thought I would take the time to discuss a brilliant actor and his achievements before I embark in watching a number of his films. In my last cinema studies screening, we watched Martin Scorsese’s Age of Innocence. The film… Continue Reading →

In one of this week’s readings (Jay Rosen (2006),’The People Formerly Known as the Audience’, PressThink blog, June 27), I was introduced to the idea that the audience of media texts have developed over time and are now not an… Continue Reading →

In the week 8 practical, groups began to brainstorm and research each of their individual topics further and discuss possible ways to creatively produce media regarding this. As I have been given the topic ‘texts’, I began assembling references to… Continue Reading →