We watched a few video portraits this week in class; was great to see the content that others had decided to discuss.
The subjects ranged from gender fluidity to doctorates in biology, farming and pop culture.
What people chose to discuss was interesting and I paid close attention to sound. Most were really great in terms of quality and I later found out in the lecture that I had obviously missed out on a workshop that covered the technical aspects to creating a clean sound pattern, minimal noise and interference.

I had a giggle to myself at the thought of my film being played and hearing the jarring effects that I’d created.
Maybe I should have written that it was deliberate..
Next time.

Groups were assigned and aforementioned fears of group work were quashed as the people in my circle were actually reasonable people and we all took to figuring out what we wanted to discuss.
Media. What is it?
How does it grab our attention?
We swashed the word around, taking to a brainstorm and settled on television and more specifically, Game of Thrones.
How does Game of Thrones captivate us?
What is it about the show that engages us and keeps our attention?

We divided the topics surrounding the aspects that come together that create a piece of media and decided to take off and find what information we could.
Our game plan was to find what we could the earlier we could, in the off-chance that we couldn’t find any information and needed to re-think things.

So far so good!