What I’ve personally established over the course of Media 1 in the first Tutorial and Practical. 

I’ve now been through my first lecture in Media at RMIT. We discussed a course outline, what we wanted to take away from the course and the degree, and discussed a extract from N. Katherine Hayles, regarding the modern day society shift from Deep Attention studying and learning to Hyper Attention.

The Extract discussed different ways that people think, Deep attention being focused on one particular topic at a time, and hyper attention focusing on multiple stimuli simultaneously. Hyper Attention Study is recently.

The course outline is predominantly found here But the synopsis of each week is located below.

• Week 1 (1 Mar) – ‘media’: a home for your practice
• Week 2 (8 Mar) – what is ‘media’?
• Week 3 (15 Mar) – the edit
• Week 4 (22 Mar) – how do we learn to become media practitioners?
• Week 5 (29 Mar) – interviewing and documentary form
• Week 6 (5 Apr) – being a media operator – ethics and privacy
• Week 7 (12 Apr) – why, where and how do we look? (textual attention)
• Week 8 (26 Apr) – considering fandom – too much attention?
• Week 9 (3 May) – doing research and collaboration
• Week 10 (10 May) – paying attention to sound
• Week 11 (17 May) – the attention industries
• Week 12 (24 May) – the wrap: looking ahead to the media studios
• Week 13 Non-teaching period (aka ‘SWOT vac’ week)
• Week 14 (Thurs. 8 Jun.) – media program studio presentations + sem 2, 2017 pitch +ballot session

I’ve also been given a piece of paper which outlines the Learning Blog, which can also be found on the workshop. It’s a pretty good outline of everything that needs to be done, and I’m not going to just copy the whole thing onto this blog, so here’s the link: Learning Blog. But most importantly from the blog is the three posts per week listed below.

Over the course of the semester you need to be blogging every week. -We expect THREE posts per week that cover the following bases:

1. At least one post relating to the lectorial and any reading/s set for that week (it must directly comment on core issues discussed in that class and reading)
2. At least one post documenting and reflecting upon a key activity/exercise undertaken in the workshop for that week
3.  At least one ‘initiative’ post connecting an idea encountered in this week’s classes with a media text/production exercise/event/experience of specific interest to you but that hasn’t been specifically mentioned in the course.

Our teacher or lecturer or whatever you call them in University insisted that we make small posts about very particular topics, rather than large posts covering a lot.

Lastly, following up on when we were asked what we’d like to take from this course and this degree overall, here are the notes I took on the day.

5 things I’d like to learn and take away from this course and by the the end of the degree

1. I’d like to know how to edit videos efficiently and effectively.
2. I’d like to produce videos regarding topics I’m interested in, telling interesting information and a story.
3. I want to learn the influence the media has in everyday life, and the control the people actually have over the media
4. I would like to practice skills of discussing ideas in an interesting way
5. I want to be prepared for the careers and opportunities that Communication and Media can bestow onto me

Looking forward to making some more blog submissions. 🙂