With a packet of Red Rock Delt Salt and Vinegar chips in hand, I set out for a night of catching up on my favourite reality shows. If you didn’t know by now, hip-hop music, salt and vinegar chips and reality TV are my 3 favourite things in life. Given the option of losing Survivor […]
Read more "blog #47: These Are A Few of My Favourite Things"Today’s lecture was all about copyright, sampling and originality. Dan, today’s lecturer, played some very interesting videos to keep us all engaged, intertwining it with some academic research. He then gave us an activity, to listen to Girl Talk’s song This Is The Remix and then to list as many song samples that we could find. I […]
Read more "blog #46: sampling samples"Tonight was the premiere of Channel 9’s brand new show, adopted from the American version, called Married at First Sight. The show’s loose concept is that 3 relationship experts match couples out of a pool of around 20. The couple is then “married” in a normal ceremony, however it has now been made clear that it […]
Read more "blog #45: (nearly) married at first sight"Sunday night was spent being an emotional wreck finally tuning into something I’ve wanted to for a long time now. I can not believe what these people had to endure, it must be in our nature to rise to occasions when we are pressured to. For those that have not seen this before, Liz Hurley does […]
Read more "blog #44: #illridewithyou"Today I went out for breakfast with my best mate from Adelaide, he’s in town for the day for his auntie’s 50th and to see me so was really great to catch up! After brekky finished, I dropped by the newsagent to pick up my copy of TIME Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People. People that […]
Read more "blog #43: no other ye"1 month and 10 days until I’m boarding a plane to Guatemala via Los Angeles! I’m so excited for my journey from Guatemala, through Honduras and Nicaragua and finishing in Costa Rica – as well as a sneaky trip to LA for a few days. I’m going on this trip solo and am aiming to […]
Read more "blog #42: hola"Taking a break from the usual piss-up and loud music, I’ve decided to focus my attention over this weekend to cleaning up some university work and tying up some loose ends. I was able to finish off my Popular Culture bibliography for our presentation, as well as generating a logo for “GAME SCOPE” – Team Forte’s Brief 4 […]
Read more "blog #41: saturday night done right"Today each individual group had to present their prototype or a rough outcome idea for their Brief 4 presentation. Everyone’s outcomes are coming along really nicely, it was good to see what others were doing as well to provide a little inspiration and motivation for my group, Team Forte’s, final media artefact. My group, after […]
Read more "blog #40: final cut"I really just want to reiterate to every single person that will ever read my blog posts that I DO NOT LIKE VIDEO EDITING. I will always put in 100% into every single piece of work I do, however I have to admit that my motivation levels have dropped significantly whenever I realise a video […]
Read more "blog #39: 99 problems and editing is one"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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