Dear future self, 7 things I want to achieve in Media 6 is: To feel comfortable with a camera, all the settings, functions and what lenses are good for a certain style. To be able to use all Adobe Applications without fault To know exactly what I want to get out of this degree To […]
In our workshop, we were asked the question of what is our favourite media moment. Once I heard that, I instantly was thinking what part of the course did we enjoy and what was our favourite. But my class interpreted it as in, what was your favourite moment when you watched a movie, or a […]
In our workshop we briefly talked about an artist that had called “rape” art. In that, she got a stranger to come into her room and rape her. She videoed it and then posted it all over social media, and her explanation was to dismantle male power, and she says “Central to this work is […]
In our workshop today we had to show a rough edit of our video essay. I felt that it was coming along slowly, but still had enough elements to show Louise where we were […]
When they gave us this worksheet I was unaware of where to start! All I know that when I started the practical and conceptual both weren’t in the positive. Since I hadn’t come to terms with the amount of talent I needed to get good grades, and the amount of readings/blogs […]
Studios = initiate, innovate, adapt and evaluate Studios sound awesome! We choose what we want to do, kinda like what we want to specialise in. With 5 hours of classes a week with students from all years (1, 2, or 3). That means we can learn from others that have higher knowledge and different […]
In our workshop today, we showed Louise our audio essay rough cut. You could defiantly call it a “rough cut”, since we had some parts on my computer in Audition and then other parts on Sylvia’s Audition file. I had the intro and music on mine and then Sylvia had the interview and little sound […]
I watched Ivan Sen’s 2013 film “Mystery Road” and found that it had many aspects that follow narrative form, with the help of its technical aspects of camera, lighting and editing. We can consider a narrative to be a chain of events linked by cause and effect and occurring in time and space. Mystery […]
Joshua Meyrowitz (2009), ‘Medium Theory: An Alternative to the Dominant Paradigm of Media Effects’ in The Sage Handbook of Media Processes and Effects, Ed. R. L Nabi and M. B. Oliver (Sage). This reading I did a couple weeks back because our topic for Project Brief 4 is on mediums and media technologies, so I read […]
“The medium is the message” is a phrase coined by Marshall McLuhan meaning that the form of a medium embeds itself in the message, creating a symbiotic relationship by which the medium influences how the message is perceived. A video that we watched in our lectorial highlighted this phrase and showed it through the medium […]
