Noticing

Reflective practice is one of the main methodologies of the media discipline. For those who are in a practical based occupation, reflective practice allows us to understand how to build something creatively and why we’ve chosen the elements used. This supports the developments of your professional expertise as it helps int he development of your professional identity. Within the media program at RMIT, our media self identity is set up through blogging through day 1, representing the interrelationships between expertise, identity and satisfaction. This usually results in a change of nature in your practice symbolising both practical and creative growth.

How to do it:

Noticing — media is everywhere, can you even see it?
Week 2 media audit is an example of this identification of media. “As multi-sensate beings, we are inundated with sense impressions all the time” – attempt to bring into consciousness ‘the intentional’. Conscious noticing vs. Disciplined noticing.

How to reflect on the light bulb learning moments
DIEP. Describe objectively ONE thing you’ve learned, Interpret the insight, Evaluate the iffiness and usefulness

Narrative

Key elements of narrative/story

Controlling idea

Character

Conflict (competing goals)

Structure (progression)

Character change/ growth

Mistaken for Strangers, 2013, Dir. Tom Berninger

All stories need an inciting incident, which for this documentary is the popularity of The National.

We have a first act turning point where they the protagonist going on an ‘adventure’.

Narrative Codes

Story telling is the creative demonstration of truth. A story is the living proof of an idea, the conversion of idea into action. A story’s event structure is the means by which you first express and then prove your idea” Robert McKee STORY (1999)

How do you prove  your controlling idea? 

Protagonist is the person who changes the most.