Introduction to MC50
https://vimeo.com/162511567 Working in groups of three students should record enough shots with the Sony MC50 to put together a brief interview segment for a program with the following theme. “A survival guide to your first six weeks of University” This…
Legally Blonde: Heroine and The Three Act Structure
“Oh, I like your outfit too, except when I dress up as a frigid bitch, I try not to look so constipated.” – (Legally Blonde, 2001) After finishing the first reading, Dramatic Development, Time, and Story Structure by Michael Rabiger, I thought…
PB3 So Far: After the Interview
Yesterday I filmed my initial interview with my subject, Conor. The interview lasted about 25 minutes and I am very pleased with the amount of content I have to work with. Conor answered all of my questions in great detail…
Semiotics
I mentioned in my previous post on this weeks reading on my struggle to understand semiotics and one of the readings for this week. I was happy to learn that others also thought that the reading had been fairly dense….
Week 4 Sound Exercise: Audio Reflection
In the week 4 exercise, we were given about 20 minutes to take the sound recorders and record a short audio interview as well as sounds with-in the environment to accompany it. This exercise was quite a bit of a…
Lecture Week 5: Interviews
Before class today, I realized that we only had the next two weeks to do PB3 and the only thing I had done for it was speaking with my subject and make sure they were into the idea. With this…
My Favorite Interview : James Lipton // Dave Chapelle
On my way to the Media 1 lecture today I was listening to WTF with Marc Maron, an interview with Broad City’s Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson. listening to interviews is one of my favourite things. Whether it be a…
Textual Analysis Reading
Week 5 Media 1 Reading: Textual Analysis I just finished the Textual Analysis Reading. I got off to a rough start by not knowing the meaning to ‘Lacuna’ 1 or ‘axiom’ 2 but after the first page is smooth sailing. I…
Evolution of Twitter.
In the last Media 1 tutorial, we discussed different forms of media we use and how we use them. When were asked to raise our hands if we used twitter , only a few hands raised. I personally don’t use…
David Gauntlett’s Twin(?) Peaks
In Week 3 included in our readings was a Video of David Gauntlett. Gauntlett in the video was going over the main points of his book Making Media Studies. David Gauntlett makes his points and opinion on how Courses can…
