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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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….
Project 1 – #StruggleBus
First class, first assignment, first sign of struggle. The first project brief for Media 1 is to create media components that will contribute to a self portrait. Anytime I hear/see the words “self-portrait” I only think one thing, “Crap!”. It’s…
