THE UNDERGROUND

After reading the risks of Copy Right and the benefits of Creative Commons, it made me think of the risks involved and the cautious steps i should be taking whilst producing this blog.

I have come to understand that every paragraph, every sentence and every word that I write can be and will be scrutinised by the general population, and what I post can affect or offend anyone in the public domain.

Prior to viewing this weeks reading, I understood the risks involved in creating a blog that will be read by members of the public. Yet the reading opened my eyes to the things i can and can’t do, and that everything that i write can have some sought of implication involved.

Like anyone, I want to form my own ideas and thoughts and sometimes with the help of experts, public figures and leaders in todays world, but I now comprehend that there are boundaries that should not and cannot be broken.

One of the more curious elements of Adrian’s lecture was his discussion with a colleague of what “defines” a story. He used the analogy of our own lives as being somewhat ‘a story in the making’ rather than a tale with a start, middle and end. Adrian had come to the conclusion that a life of a human being is not a story because an ending remains to be written, thus the same can be said for narratives.

SO does that mean a story should always have a beginning and than a conclusion?

But what about the stories that remain ambiguous right to the last second? The stories that end without that ‘demanded’ closure. Are they not a narrative because they leave viewers or readers wanting more and searching for answers?

I just finished watching Richard Linklater’s “Before Sunrise” (1995) and if I was watching the movie in 1995, I think I would’ve gone mental over the ending of that film. Do they get back together? Does one of them get left waiting at the platform? Or are they both unwilling to take a chance and rekindle what they once had? All these questions would have been running throguh the minds of thousands of viewers including me. Yet is this not a story because we don’t know what happens next? Linklater teases us even more in the sequal “Before Sunset” (2004) and again in “Before Midnight” (2013), as the trilogy constantly leaves us guessing of which path the duos lives are going down.

My point is that I disagree of how anyone can truly define what a story is. Its ambiguity leaves us guessing and its ending provides us with a certain closure that most people crave. In essence, I believe a story is anything and anyone…thats the beauty of telling one.

My name is Julian Di Nezza and I am a first year media student at RMIT university.

The Underground is a blog created due to the following reasons:

One, to open they eyes of readers to the bigger picture – stories that have not been shared nor told, ideas that have been contemplated but not yet fully scrutinised, and people who have been hidden  underground away from the public eye.

And two… well RMIT are kinda forcing me to do it..

Yet nevertheless, The Underground will provide readers with the told and the untold tales that are circling our everyday lives in the attempt to underline the people who matter most – you.