In our tutorial yesterday, we looked at each group’s second draft for project brief 4. It was great to finally see what everyone else had been working on after being so caught up in our own work. A couple of the artefacts that really stood out to me were the following:

Elise and Jack

• Institutions
• Gave a clear explanation of what an institution was, then honed in on their topic of classification (connecting to the classification board of Australia)
• Presented their work as a short 10 minute film explaining the intricacies of the classification system
  • How it works
  • What the different ratings are
  • Challenges facing film-makers today
• I thought this was a very well executed media artefact that did well integrating academic information, whilst also being creative and interesting

Maggie, Jac and Dusty

• Audiences
• Focused on how audiences now interact with the content they watch, and the effect this then has on the media content produced
• Presented their work in the form of a website, but also created Youtube videos to demonstrate linking to other sources and created an app to view the website easily from a mobile device
  • I thought these ideas were particularly creative because they were highly relevant to their content
  • Teaching about interactivity by creating something interactive

I also liked Gloria, Patrick and Bianca’s work. They created a sound recording with information and interviews with experts in their topic. It was the first assignment presented as a sound recording, and it really changed the way we experienced the artefact, requiring more attention because there was no visual component. Though this work still needed to be edited, I thought it was a really interesting response to the brief.