blog #60: reflecting

Brief 4 was a collaborative piece in which each group was given a topic that they had to research, and then eventually produce a media artefact that creatively responded to one of the conceptual ideas central to Media. Once divided into our groups we were set on our way to research this topic. My group, […]

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blog #55: director’s cut

This is Ali’s first cut for Brief 4. I have to say that I really am loving it so far. Aside from a few sound issues and things of that nature, which will all be ironed out by the end of it, it’s actually come up really well so far! The coverage and cuts are […]

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blog #52: correlation nation

Working with Sandy and Ali has been a really interesting and fun experience! Here are links to both Ali and Sandy’s blogs where they both discuss over a few blog posts the key ideas and their thoughts on the Brief 4 planning, meetings and filming. Ali: http://www.mediafactory.org.au/ali-bucha/ Sandy: http://www.mediafactory.org.au/alexander-jones/ Take a look!

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blog #51: camera roll

A panorama shot taken from the day of filming. Highlighting our hiring of lighting equipment, 3 cameras showing different angles, LCD TV screens displaying graphics that correlate the script, and a really trendy and cool set!

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blog #49: that’s a wrap!

What a great day! Today’s tute was dedicated to filming our Game Scope segment for Brief 4… and what a success it was. Ali really nailed the camera set up and whole production and Sandy’s acting was perfect. The group really came together to produce a successful, and quite professional, short piece! I’m so proud of […]

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blog #48: D-DAY

Tomorrow is the big day, filming my final assignment! I’ve completed my set jobs, which were the researching of sound as a medium, as well as completing the script and getting the graphics done for Game Scope and Head to Head. Overall I’m really happy with the direction that our assignment has taken, Brief 4 […]

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blog #38: scripted

The past couple of days has been totally dedicated towards scripting our media artefact, the talk show called Game Scope. I am a creative writer, it is what I love to do, so to be able to have the freedom to move away from the constant solo video making, I can now take on a role […]

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blog #37: prototypical

Today, my group met up for a fairly extensive meeting to discuss the filming, script and production of our final piece: Brief 4. What we know so far is that it’ll be a talk show like concept, discussing 2 particular texts and how mediums are used in each. Here is a prototype for it:

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blog #36: two become one

Thursday afternoon was an entire tutorial dedicated towards our Brief 4, where each group were able to share their own ideas, as well as being able to receive some much needed advice and a bit of a push in the right direction from our tutor, Rachel. This tutorial really helped my group, Team Forte, as […]

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blog #35: meet me halfway

Today, at 3.30, my group had a replacement meeting for our usual Monday time as Sandy had fallen ill. It was a relative quick and succinct meeting, basically running over how we had all gone in the annotated bibliography, as well as talking about research, any issues we had and our final media artefact. Everything […]

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