The End of Water Cooler Television
“The new forms of electronic broadcasting, such as radio and television, introduced a further new dimension as their audiences now consumed the same messages at exactly the same time. Thus broadcast schedules played a significant part in creating a shared…
Lecture Week 9: Copyright
In the workshop today, we discussed copyright at length and were able to ask questions. I probably have 50 million more questions on topic due to my lack of previous knowledge and high amount interest in the topic (Who knew…
Bright World
Tonight I went with a friend to see Bright World written by and starring Elise Hearst and Andrea James at Theatre Works in St. Kilda. “1938 Europe Burns. Young Jewish couple Hans and Alice Herskovics mount a dangerous escape from Nazi-Occupied…
The Institution of Late Night Talk
While collecting references for my annotated bibliography I came across a thesis entitled The Evolution of Mediatized Stand-Up Comedy: Investigating Para-Performances on Television, Film, and YouTube by Mirali Almaula. The thesis explores Stand Up Comedy performances and the effects that new…
Workshop 8: Elements of Sound in Podcasts
In this week’s workshop, we listened to an episode of radio lab that explored the basic question: why do we sleep? I personally had a hard time maintaining focus while listening to this episode. I found it slow in pace,…
The Institution of PBS and Sesame Street
As I began to think about my topic for project 4 ‘Institutions’ I decided I would start by simply reading some current news articles that focus on institutions and the challenges some may be facing. I came across ‘There Goes…
No(n) Narratives.
With the past couple weeks having focused around storytelling, protagonists, character development, and non-narrative I thought I would take a moment to explore pieces of media that break the rules of storytelling and narratives. Clerks is a perfect example of…
Non-Narrative Forms
In last week’s reading, we were exposed to the different forms of non-narrative storytelling. Non- Narrative being, in my opinion, the absence of character growth focused around ideas rather than having a tried and true plot. This is most commonly…
Group Genius + Flow
We briefly discussed group flow and the reading Group Genius: The creative power of collaboration by Keith Sawyer in this past week’s workshop. Since then I have actually done the reading (whoops, but better late than never). After I finished I immediately…
What Makes Me a ‘Creative’
In this past workshops class, we discussed what characteristics make a someone a creative. After this discussion, I started thinking about what the traits within me that make me want to create/ continue to drive me to create/ or simply lend…
