Despite having Labour Day and making us miss our Monday class, it wouldn’t really be uni if we still didn’t get homework over the long weekend. This time, we were tasked with finding parts of films, TV shows, etc. that didn’t use dialogue to tell the story. The example that we were given was a […]
Read more "Don’t Say Anything"Since this studio is about making a web series, then I think it’s only right that I talk about what a web series is. So here’s my spiel on what a web series is to me and other things that may or may not be related to the topic. When I hear those words, my […]
Read more "Who, What, Web"3 prompts to make 3 prompt videos equals a viewing party with commentary after the screening. We basically started the lesson with watching the 3 prompt videos – action, dialogue and location – and discussed our thoughts on each. Without going into too much detail on each video, let’s just say that we hope they […]
Read more "A, B, C, D…SLR?"A new week calls for a new beginning. And for us, that’s finally knowing what exactly it is we’re going to do from here on out and actually starting something. It’s been decided that the Screenwriters will work together on a single serial project and we should have a full script from them (hopefully) by […]
Read more "So Where Are We Going?"During our third week into this studio, we watched a series of short films made by a Sydney student way back when. The first one was of a man doing yoga. What makes this short film different, and the rest alike made by the student, is that it shows what the man is doing but […]
Read more "Let’s Talk"Should we consider the friends we meet on social media like the friends we see on a day-to-day basis? Not really — to some extent. I say ‘not really’ instead of ‘no’ because I feel like that’s too strong and definitive as an answer. And I can already feel that I’m going to write an […]
Read more "Let’s Catch Up"In our Cinema Studies screening this week, we were introduced to experimental films. For a person who has never watched experimental films before and has always been into narrative films, this was all so new and weird to me. The first film we watched was Ballet Mecanique and about halfway through it, I literally said […]
Read more "Try This"In this week’s workshop, we discussed an array of things, but of course, all still relating to media. We began by watching a short video of UK academic, David Gauntlett as he discusses his new book, Making Media Studies: The Creativity Turn in Media and Cultural Studies. He makes points about making media to describe […]
Read more "Tell Me About It"For this week’s reading, we were asked to read blog posts by UK academic, David Gauntlett, where he introduces the key topics of his new book Making Media Studies: The Creativity Turn in Media and Cultural Studies and the knowledge about media that is currently essential. In his Introduction, Gauntlett explains how media studies can […]
Read more "It’s Not Just Me(dia), It’s You Too"