Monthly Archives: April 2016

First of all, I really appreciate Billy, the actor of this video, to take part in my video. When I know I the content of project brief three, the first question came to my mind was who is most fun and attractive guy around me. Then, Billy, a young fashion designer student jumped into my mind.

He was my classmate when we studied in REW together. Now, after graduated from REW, we have become good friend.

For me, fashion design is a new area that I never get into, and I think most people around us would prefer to see that how fashion clothes we can see everyone be designed and made. That is why I choose this as my topic.

Review the controlling idea that Professor Louise had mentioned in the workshop on Wednesday, I think the controlling idea of mine is that introduce the process of designing clothes and Billy’s understanding of fashion.

There are three scenes in the video, one is Billy walked on the street in Brunswick in order to find out some materials for making clothes, one is he sited in the studio and talked something, and the other one is the process he made clothes.

Because I think it is so troublesome to download a music via asking the permission, since the first video I made in this semester, all the music is made by me with a software named Garage band.

This time, I hope this video can be marked higher score.

This week, an amazing new attracts almost the net friends, to be concrete, is almost all the users of a social media called Weibo. The amazing new is that the Stephen Hawking has his own account in the biggest social platform, chatting with Chinese net friends with both of Chinese and English. Almost everyone knows Stephen Hawking, a famous physical and cosmology scientist from the UK, was putting forward a theory that is the universe may have no region and boundaries. Hs is disabled, however it does not destroy him, he kept learning and researching for several years. His inspirational story and experience impressed numerous, he has become the idol in some people’s heart.

Because he is English and disabled, Chinese never think about he would have a Chinese account.

This week, Professor Brian Morris gave us four articles as reading. I know that these readings are very helpful for our professional skills, however, there are lots of pages of each reading, and I could not spend too much time so I chose the hyper attention.

For this post, I chose the article named Casablanca: Cult Movies and Intersexual Collage to post my critical reflection. Author Umberto Eco allocates this passage in five parts that are cult, the making of “Casablanca”, stop by stop, the archetypes hold a reunion and cult culture. Honestly, I never see this movie before, even never hear it, after the reading, I will find it out on the Internet and enjoy it. .

According to Umberto, Casablanca is an example of cinematic discourse, a palimpsest for the future students of twenty centuries religiosity, and a paramount laboratory for the semiotic research in textual strategies. The Casablanca likes a cult movie, and many people would ask how to transfer a book or movie into a cult object. Author Umberto gave us three ways, the work must be loved, and there is a completely furnished. The third one should build on the other two ways, which is becoming catalyzer of collective memories. This is talking about the story/structure, and for the text, the text need to attractive and impressive although the text is unhinged, broke out and took in a part.

Then, Umberto presents a special point that different from other movies, which is about the archetypes. Every story plays upon one or more archetypes, on the contrast, the Casablanca uses all of them. Regarding to this situation, Umberto argues that a best deconstructive reading should be made upon unhinged text.

This is a very professional article, and I support you guys go to read this attentively.

Since last week, I was waiting for the result of the project brief two, and I almost could not get that because of some problems of the enrollment. Thanks to Sylvia told me about the result, I found out the problem and solved this after class with Professor Louise. I have to say that I felt really nervous when I check the result, all in all, this is the first assessment I got in the university. According to critique from Professor Rachel, my blog post and video are not bad. Actually, I am not satisfied with this result, however, I know this academic score is worthy to the works I have done.

Now, in this blog post, I will talk about almost all the deficiency of my blog and video, in order to improve them next time.

At first, it is about the video that is the self-profile. Reviewing my video, I do think this is rubbish, it is really awful. No concrete story, no structure, almost all the footages were recorded in my apartment. Comparing with other video that made by my classmates, my video is more official, like a resume. A good self-profile should not be impressed as a self-profile, but a film about someone. For example, the video I made should be a film, and I am the protagonist without any antagonist. If I have a chance, I will compile a story for introducing myself. My idea is that I am a student who wants to take part in an organization, and I am going to have a interview with the manager of the organization. I would start to add a long video about who I am while the manager asks me to introduce myself. At the end, I would switch the scene back to the interview, ending with a word that is that is me.

Now, in this post, I do appreciate to the professional dedication of Louise and Rachel. I feel so lucky because all the professors in media one are kind and nice, they all have the sense of personality.

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Network drama, becoming popular with the development of Internet, is a little different with teleplay. Actually, I find out there are two different points, comparing with the teleplay.

The first different point is medium. As we all know, teleplay is played on television, since television born out. Day by day, cinema comes out, and the movie has a special place to be played. Now, internet has become the third medium to play drama, living with television and cinema in the communication area. The network drama is only played on Internet, but the teleplay can be played on both of the television and Internet. For the reason why network drama can be only played on Internet, we can turn to the second point.

The second point is content; one of the factors that decide the network drama can be only played on the Internet. Teleplay has a longer development history than network drama, has more audience than that too. So it is no doubt that there is a more mature and completed management system for organizing the order in television area. For example, in China, the government stipulates that all the teleplay need to be censored by a special department, and each TV station can only play the teleplay that has passed the censorship system. Internet is a free platform for each user, and the system for organizing the rules is not completed. So there are less rules and powerful organization to manage the Internet. Therefore, some dramas that do not pass the television censorship would be played on Internet, facing to everyone; especially some dramas have the plot of salacity, violence and drug taking. Moreover, for drama producer, it is saving time and money to put drama on the Internet because it economizes a list of process.

Network drama will become more popular, and has more audience. The value of network drama would become bigger and important.

The two articles for this week are quiet longer than before, and all of them are theoretical knowledge, that makes me spend lots of time to read these. Lots of information in these two articles so I will talk about some ideas that I think are interesting and worthy to be discussed.

To approach media text, there are two methods, semiotic and content analysis. In the explore 1.1, I do remember and agree with a sentence that is narrative text is a weaving together of different strands and processes. Normally, most stories use the format that is narrative. An attractive story has lots of factors to attract reader, making a good impression to readers. For example, the cartoon movie named zootopia narrates a typical story. A rabbit from village to city is for her dream that is to be a police, but lots of challenges is on the way to make the dream come true. Completed the task, rabbit has became a police, and fallen into a love with a fox who helped her during the time for task. It is a simple and small story, actually, but this film earns numerous amount of money.  This success not only because the best developed technology but also the meaning that weave in the story. The racism is the main topic across the whole movie, making audience to feel the deep meaning in this small story.

Because I am still not understand the content analysis, the only topic I could discuss there is semiotics. Saussure thinks that sign is combined with physical signifier and immaterial signified, and sign is a social product. Indeed, all the signs we use in life now are based on the society, which means culture creates sign. To be more concrete, sign is a cultural creation. In the long history, human experience their life and different record different experience, in this way, numerous signs come out.

http://www.mediafactory.org.au/2016-media-one/files/2016/04/2016-Week-5_Textual-Analysis_Brian-210tzhu.pdf

This week, we turn to the textual analysis and interview, a new and important element of media. Before we start the new topic, Professor Louise Turley was talking about the interview which is connected with sound.

For interviewing, there are five W’s can help interviewing. First of all, is who. As a interviewer, we need to choose good interviewees when we are going to interview someone. Consider who has stories to say. The next one is what, what questions we need to ask them. For the questions, there are many skills in it. The question interviewee asks need to be open ended, leading interviewee to tell more information and stories that interview want to know and record. Then, the location for interviewing is very important. Good and quiet surroundings for interviewing can make audio, sound and video better, making sure that audience can hear the recording voice and understand the emotion of interviewee. In the end, interviewer needs to ask themselves for finding what can be improved next time.

Turn to Professor Brian Morris, he mainly presented the textual analysis. I remember that the reason for textual analysis is to find out what were and what the reasonable sense-making practices of cultures are rather than just repeating our own interpretations and calling it reality. I think this is right because people would not understand why someone would like to research and find out the meaning and emotions in the words, most people think that only the author knows the meaning and emotion that they put in the article. All the explanations that readers get from the book is affected by the reader themselves. Indeed, someone says that One thousand people read Shakespeare will have one thousand Shakespeare. However, who’s understanding that is the most right one is not necessary, but the ways for reader to understand.

This Sunday, I have seen the movie that is superman vs. batman. This is a famous film and lots of people look forward to see it before it plays. However, many people who have seen this film think that it is not quite good as their expecting. Firstly, this film is quite long, 151 minutes totally. Secondly, the storyline for foreshadowing the climax is too long and complex, that makes people think it is a little boring. In my opinion, the technology of making film is developed and fantastic and the story need to be more perfect.

This story talks about that superman fight with batman because of some misunderstanding caused by an evil man, finally they forgive each other, and cooperate with each other to defeat the horrible monster.

Indeed, the story that hero fight with hero is very attractive, but it seems like that people just looks forward to the fighting visual not why they tussle. I can understand why the director chose to spend a great part of time to speak story for foreshadowing, because the political issue is the main topic the director want to express.

From my point of view, this time, this film is more oppressive. It is not a simple, heroism, the public that superman save can hurt and defeat superman. This story is end by the death of superman, and also public understand superman until the hero die. It is quite cynical.

Moreover, the music is another good point that needs to be mentioned.