I took some pictures and videos to record what I noticed. In this process, I found that I can not record images or continuously screen without electronic equipment. But if we can not use mobile phone or camera in some limited area. How to record the information that we see? Back to the last century, the electronic equipment is simply expensive. People can not afford it so they just write on the paper or draw a picture what they saw. Obviously, pictures and texts are lacking certain evidence to prove its truth. But continuously screen and photos can make up this shortcoming and help us to collect more information that we may miss. Like I took a picture in the state of the library, there is massive information in it. The statue is located
in the middle of the ground, people talking in the grass, some of them are tourists, some of them are students, people of different ages are playing chess, also there are many pigeons and seagulls around them. A picture includes various details. For a media student, we should develop the sensibility, to find that ordinary person can not find things.

After the winter vacation, we all happy to have a new semester. This semester I will explore this topic – ‘see the unseen.’ When I see this studio name at first, I have no idea about it because it sounds a little bit abstract. When I looking back the word again, the first thinking in my mind that is noticing everything around us. Since we were born in the world, we have accepted the different images, sound from outside. To see and learn the human body language, to live in the colorful world. This week reading,’Forms of noticing’, to explain what is noticing and how it works, even analyze the essence of noticing.

The author points out the difference between the ordinary-noticing and perceiving. Ordinary-noticing is easily lost from accessible memory. I believe it is possible and sometimes inevitable. For example, I across the Melbourne central station every day to have a class, but if someone asks me what the painting on the wall is. Maybe I can not remind the images. Actually, people always notice their interests, so they will ignore something around them. So marking and recording are really important to help us to remember something so that we could collect more details to create better works.

For our group’s questions. What is the Account 6 “Why” mean?
From my perspective, I reckon this is a kind of strategy to ask questions. The aim is to trigger audience’ attention. To get the sufficient information from the audience and work with them.

The PB4 requires us to edit 7-8 minutes audio work; this is different with the previous work we did. The group is randomly assigned, I think it is a good opportunity to develop my communication and collaboration skills. For the audio work, first we believe of it should contain a topic, and then we discuss it and add more details that we search for academic essay and news article around the topic. Actually, we found three topics and each one completed one of them. However, after we meet up and discuss all of the topics, we realized that this audio work should be one topic because we need to demonstrate our research. If we have completed each one job, we can’t work together and mix three audio works to one. Therefore, we change minds, we selected one topic and explored it together.

To be honestly, I’m second language learner. My English is not so good. Thus, sometimes I can’t understand the professional words and slang. In the lecture class, I maybe miss some important points that would influence my understanding to the future knowledge, but I will review the lecture slides and ask mates if I got some problems. Maybe it would cost too many time, but I think it worth. Also, when we group meet up to discuss more around topic what they think of, I can not immediately understand what they say, and I need to think about changing the language in my brain, and expressing my thoughts and thoughts. Sometimes when I got a good idea, but I can not organize word to express, that is annoying to me. Luckily, my group is assigned to each one different work; I can complete my part of the list. Besides, the lecture reading is also my hardest part of the study. At the beginning of study, the reading is too long that I can’t read it too fast, I just read it slowly. But a few weeks later, I found the reading is not so hard to understand for me, and I improve my reading speed. That makes me happy.

For our audio work, I think it is successful. We always make a plan when we start another assignment, and we finished in time. We consider the relationship between the sound effect and interview, how to make them be smooth. Before I did it, I thought it was someone speaking and record his voice, to tell the audience what the story is, what we want to express. But in fact, I was wrong. To make a good audio, you should establish a topic, that we did, but the more important thing that is searched more information to support your topic, to demonstrate the reason this topic should be attention. According copyright problem, we also add some interview of people thinking. We collect some parts of celebrity section to reflect on this issue. The influence of celebrity is great, and the influence of celebrity effect can explain the seriousness of things, it is worth our attention. But I found a problem; it is difficult to combine the sound effects and voice. After the feedback, the instructor’s advice is indeed a great help to us, and when people speak, they need to slow down the rhythm of the narrative, leaving the audience enough space to think. Rather than the sound effects on the human voice, this will cause the fuss.

I learned through these experiences, learned a lot of professional skills, from the original how to edit video, interviews, audio clips. After the team is to learn to cooperate. Discuss how to complete an audio job, we need to make a script, what should be done in each period, we are very clear what is the final result. Video and audio is the biggest difference between the screen, how to use the voice to attract the attention of the audience, this is the most important point, is the most difficult. Video can use the screen instead of the author want to express the content, because the picture is vivid, but the audio is only the sound, the only thing we can do is to make the best efforts to collect useful information, the orderly combination of this information, so the audience have an interest in the sound. We not only do the speech, but it also need to be more personalized. And the recording is supposed to close to our life. Also, we use some special sound effect of many aspects to show audio.

For me, this experience is very meaningful. He let me know more about the media, how to do the media, as well as in the future career planning, to use a rational and objective point of view to analyze the media news. Of course, the media is not a personal task, it needs everyone’s effort and pays. Similar to the film industry, that there are directors, deputy director, lighting, screenwriter, make-up artist and so on. A lens requires many people’s efforts to achieve. This is like an audio work, not a person can decide, but also need everyone in the team different ideas, brainstorming, and finally to discuss the final results. I believe that after filtering the idea is the best. Indeed, it is significant for a group to have a plan. Furthermore, I will improve my English skills on the vacation， which will be useful for the next semester.

Finally, we finished the rough cut, and then we go through the final cut.
Attention is a really good topic for our media students because we should make the video and make sure people will watch it. So how to attract people to watch it, that is a point. I consider this issue and I found a video on Youtube that is helpful to our work.

This is the last lecture in the first semester. We got the reflection for myself.

In terms of media, I think first is make the film, but since I learn some classes and listen to the lecture, I change my mind. The media contains great information, which is also divided into different directions. Such as the television industry and film and television industry. The television industry is divided into several categories, the film industry is divided into scripts, equipment, film basic theory, lighting and so on. In short, the media is not a word or one thing can explain.
On the device technology, I learned from a novice what is the editing software and familiar with the use of it, understand the name of some equipment, different devices have different purposes. These are what I did not understand before. Of course, I still need to work harder to learn the technology I have not yet mastered.
The first semester I may do not so good, but these are the basis for future knowledge, I think there are many places can be improved. In short, I hope I can do it better in the next semester.

I have watched a lot of interesting Thailand advertisements that better than other countries advertisements. The nucleus of Thailand advertisements is innovation. As an audience, you don’t know what happened with the next plot.

Economy alone, Thailand can only be considered a developing country, but its advertising creative level ranks the forefront of the world, sensational when people can tears, funny people can make people laugh, exaggerated when people can get rid of Chin … Thai people “easygoing” character, so that they can accept a variety of styles of advertising with the inclusive, even some “large scale” advertising. Many people in the advertising industry in Thailand have received education and training in the West, but unlike the West, they rarely use the stars to advertise, like to use ordinary people to interpret civilian life. This kind of grounding of the civilians of the route closer to the distance between advertising and ordinary people, supplemented by fascinating story, more likely to cause people to resonate.

The most important part of the advertisements that is narrative. They often make misconception to the audience and they don’t put the product where people can easily see. The audience will focus on what the story is, what the story express. Also, they make a good script to make people curious.

Can I have your attention please?
In this workshop we make a plan that someone’s leg was broken, and she asked Siri how to do, rather than calling emergency service.

This work spent about 20 minutes, but we just editing for 1-2 minutes. So I remind the project brief 4, it should be 7-8 minutes. Perhaps it would be a huge job. It seems so complicated.
Also, we use the other professional software which called ‘Audition’ to edit our record voice.
It looks similar to the premiere and easy to operation.

There are some problems need to be attention.
The background music annoying is really hard to eliminate, if I do that, I will delete all sound includes my sound. I think the Audition has more areas that I need to explore, maybe later I will find the ways of how to eliminate the annoying.

In this week’s lecture, we have a guest teacher. The whole class we discussed how fast the social media changing and why people make these changes. There are many TV ecologies, like Netflix, which creates the new digital and business model. Perhaps Netflix had controlled the most part of the market and they require more business opportunities. However, Netflix didn’t enter into China market. China has the most population in the world and the market should be valuable for them.

I’m really grateful this course is realistic about the state of media industries and let students recognize the media, try to think the future position what they want to do and how to do after graduating.

To be honestly, I don’t listen to many broadcasts because I think it is very boring. In the 20 years ago, people often use CD to record their voice when they becoming old they can listen. Or they require the news from the broadcast. Nowadays, people stand for the advanced technology and they like to watch the video because it made by images and audio. In addition, the video can easily trigger audience’s attention.

However, I found that radio also has a different classification. Such as documentary, history, culture, entertainment, movies and so on. I like the history of radio because the content is very easy to attract me, the narrative structure and sound effects are very good together. So that the audience will create a sense of picture and thus have a full understanding of the story. I believe it can be used for our audio work, to think how to mix the interview and sound effect together.

This week’s workshop we have done the rough cut for the project brief 4. It roughly 1 minutes and we got a good start at the beginning of the audio work. It includes some celebrities section and mixes their sound together, which could trigger the audience attention. Besides, we have to make some improvements. For instance, the sound effect can be changed in some way. After Alex speaking, the sound effect will follow her speaking, it would make horrible to the audience. Also, we need slow down the sound and add more spaces for the audience to think more in their minds. For the narrative, we focus on the agenda setting function of new media influence the public attention towards climate change in Australia. And we’ve communicated our idea through a hybrid radio talk show. That’s all good. Unfortunately, we need to incorporating silence, sound effect and music to help work breathe.

We also have to finish the final cut, because of it just a rough cut. And we still need to add some details to complete it better.

This course is very useful, the teacher listens to our audio and gives us feedbacks that would evaluate our work and we try to think what we express to the audience. To reassess the direction of our pieces.