For half of week nine I was actually in London and flew back into Australia at the end of the week! Before I left London I really wanted to get in an interview for my online magazine (genzine.com) and through Instagram connected with Jasmine Dunne, a London based photographer. We met in Shoreditch and walked around getting to know each…
LECTURE/ READING WEEK NINE
This week’s lecture was by Dr. Rachel Wilson getting us hyped and ready for our group project – Project Brief 4! I’m really looking forward to working with audio rather than video as I want to learn a range of skills throughout this degree. It was interesting to see what group work can give to us individually. It’s easy to…
WEEK 8 READING/ LECTURE
According to this week’s lecture, ‘Fandoms’ are perceived as cultural ‘others’ and are usually seen as freakish, obsessed, hysterical and infantile. (M. Hills 2007). This stereotype has existed for years; from teenage girls screaming at The Beatles in the 60’s to generations dressing up and going to watch The Star Wars films, we all know a fandom of some sort.…
WEEK 8 INITIATIVE
There are so many conventions for fandoms being held around the country and Melbourne is one of Australia’s largest pop-culture hubs. It is a huge industry and as I am not a part of a fandom myself, for this week’s initiative I decided to pick the brains of someone who is… Dylan Arkoshy is a 21 year old living in…
REFLECTION
Although the interview with my Grandad hasn’t turned out the way I thought it would in my head, I am overall happy with the outcome and the progress I have made in just two months of beginning Media One. My Grandad is a humble man and it took him about fifteen to twenty minutes of talking before he got into…
PB3 – Interview with Philip Pass
Final Version for Vimeo Passie Film from Jasmine on Vimeo. A moment of reflection from a ‘family man’s’ past; father, husband and Grandfather, Philip Pass filmed in his backyard in the city of Melbourne.
WEEK 7 WORKSHOP
I was absent for this week’s workshop so have decided to write another initiative post on week 7’s reading. I found an interesting article titled, ‘”Do Animals on the Big Screen Promote Conservation on the Ground?” http://www.conservationmagazine.org/2014/03/do-animated-animals-promote-conservation/ It seems that every year, Disney and Pixar release an animal blockbuster that drives pet sales. Remember when ‘Finding Nemo’ came out and…
WEEK 8 WORKSHOP
I’ve been away for the past two weeks so haven’t been able to compare edits on PB3 with my peers however I have compared with close friends to see how each other is doing and send feedback via Facebook (one benefit of social media when on the other side of the world). Although I couldn’t physically partake in this week’s…
WEEK 7 – READING (Cancelled Lecture)
The other day my friend Lizzie said to me, “Have you read this week’s reading?!?” I replied that I hadn’t “Oh my god, I do NOT get it, it’s about animals? Like… animals in the Zoo… what does this have to do with Media!” I figured that there must be some connecting link but Lizzie was right. As I began…
WEEK 7 INITIATIVE
Week 7’s reading made me really think and as an initiative I decided to look into the topic more. Why is it that zoos have only been around for the last two hundred or so years? Why were they created in the first place? Think about how often we see animals in Media and on screens than in the wild.…