Sufjan Stevens and Sound
I have never thought much about sound. I enjoy sound. I love podcasts. I enjoy listening to storytellers. I enjoy music. I love musicals. Yet have never thought deeply about it. From a technical perspective, I know very little about…
Sounds I hate v. Sounds I love
In this week’s lecture and reading the topic was sound. One of the suggested blog entries was to talk about the sounds we hate and why we hate them. As well as the ones we love. While thinking about this I…
PB2: Media Self Portrait
https://vimeo.com/159785607 For this self-portrait, I decided to veer away from the artefacts I used previously in PB1. I chose not to use them as I feel like they would not have been able to form a cohesive concept. I also…
SXSW: President Obama on Media and the Government.
SXSW (South By Southwest) for those who don’t know is a yearly media orientated festival in Austin, Texas. This year the keynote speaker at the festival was President Barack Obama (watch the video HERE). The President spoke about many of…
Haiku Exercise
Last week in Media 1 we were given an exercise to create a video. In the video we were to use video clips we had taken in class, a piece of music provided, and a haiku either written within the…
Lecture Week 2: The Edit
As we did not have a lecture today I thought I’d reflect on last week’s lecture. The first part of the lecture focused on the edit, the history of and the purpose of. The lecture took us through a couple…
Authenticity in Social Media
Media 1: Week 2: Lecture 2 During the lecture this week the idea of authenticity with in media came up. In particular, authenticity within Social Media .One specific question on this topic was asked “Are the friends you have on…
Put on Your Thinking Cap!
While presenting our Self Portrait pieces in the Media 1 workshop today we were instructed to put on a specific hat to critique each other. The 4 hats we wore were: Yellow – Positive/optimistic, discuss what works well Red –…
Project 1: Self Portrait
The following pieces of Media are artifacts I have collected for Project 1 in Media 1. I chose each of these artifacts to specifically show how I identify and label my self. There is a brief explanation below each piece….
All around us – Media 1 Lecture 2
Melbourne Central from Hannah Tepoorten on Vimeo. At the end of the lecture today we, the class, were tasked with going to different areas of Melbourne and recording what kinds and how much of media we encountered there. The group…
