MPAA + Audiences
Audiences, Institutions, Power. The MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America), the film rating board in the US represents all of these things. In high school I watched the documentary, This Film Is Not Yet Rated which explores the history of the…
Edward Snowden
http://i1024.photobucket.com/albums/y306/Hannah_Tepoorten/Screen%20Shot%202016-05-23%20at%203.49.04%20PM_zpsjbnbhv1f.png Last night I went to Think Inc’s An Evening With Edward Snowden. Obviously, Snowden could not be there in person but arrived by controlling a screen and rolling out onto the stage. Not much of the content discussed was…
Twitter As A Medium For Activism
The reading for Mediums goes into great length about the different affordances a medium can have. I wanted to explore Twitter and how Twitters affordances get used for activism. The reading gives an example of printing and how its affordances…
PB4: Interview at the ABC
Yesterday (MAH BDAY YASSS), my group headed to The ABC’s offices in Elsternwick to interview reporter, Kerri Ritchie. I feel the interview went really well. Kerri was very generous to us with time and how open she was to answering…
PB4: VOX POP
After the lecture yesterday, it was time for my group to do some Vox Pops. We organized some questions to ask and had our zoom mic. We struggled to print out our release forms – printing at RMIT is HARD…
Work Attachments
In the lectorial today, we were introduced to work attachments. A work attachment being 80 hours of supervised experience within the field of media by semester 6. This task is (seemingly) simple and 80 hours really isn’t much. I am…
Flashback to Week 1
In week 1 we read a couple passages by Cal Newport about Passion. In the Articles and the video Newport Discusses ‘The Passion Trap’ 1 as well as the idea that we are able to find passion in many career…
Trigger Warnings + PC Culture.
In last week’s workshop about audiences, the subject of Trigger Warning’s came up. Specifically about recent events at American Universities. One of the groups in class is doing this as the subject of their PB4 and interviewed me about…
Tailor Made Media: Pro’s/Con’s
In this past workshop- while discussing PB4- the concept of how audiences control the media they consume was brought up. I personally use the app Flipboard to curate my news. I am able to subscribe to different ‘magazines’ that publish news…
The Jungle Book Review
Tonight, I went and saw Jon Favreau’s The Jungle Book. I felt all the feels. I laughed, I cried, and everything in between. It was certainly worth the $18 to see it in theatres. while watching I was even slightly…
