Being someone who loves reality television, the focus for week 10 was reality television with a specific focus on shows such as The Bachelor, Unreal and Candid Camera. Reality television can best be described as “the ‘entertaining real’… ‘authentic’ personalities, situations, and narratives is considered to be reality TV’s primary distinction… and also its primary […]
Read more "blog #68: part one, the bachelor & dating shows"Transnational television can best be described as a concept, program or idea that takes different forms (Chalaby, 2005). Many existing formats have gone transnational and have worked: for example, cross-border satellite TV channels, international and regional news channels and joint ventures. Chalaby also infers that transnational television takes different forms (Chalaby, 2005) including the international […]
Read more "blog #67: part two, transnational programs"If someone was to ask me to record my television habits before commencing my Television Cultures course at the start of this semester, I would have given them a weird look and asked them why it was important I had done that. What I hadn’t put much thought into, which turns out to be the […]
Read more "blog #66: part three, my television habits"So after my amazing 3 week holiday to North and Central America, I’m back in gloomy old Melbourne – where the sun never shines and rain is aplenty. My first day of semester 2 at RMIT consisted of a session for my studio class Character as well as a lecture for The Spectacle of Music Video which were […]
Read more "blog #63: homecoming"This curtain call will be my final post curating my top 5 blog posts, as well as talking about my learning graph and reflecting on the semester that has just passed. Above is my learning graph that we were asked to complete in class, I found this exercise to be extremely fascinating as it […]
Read more "blog #62: curtain call for semester 1"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, […]
Read more "blog #60: reflecting"Week 12’s lecture, today, was all about media materialism! Dan took over this lecture again and presented the 2 hour seminar in a really engaging and comprehensible way. I especially loved the way that all the media terms were discussed and defined explicitly. The terms ‘Holocene’ and ‘Anthropocene’ were terms I struggled with but once […]
Read more "blog #58: dusty roads ahead"As I got on the train today for work, it’s so hard not to now observe every part of media that is consumed on a train. This course has taught me a lot about everyday media, so I now catch myself tallying in my head each individual piece of media around me. Just alone, on […]
Read more "blog #57: sit back and observe"As the end of the first semester wraps up, there are a few more assignments to be submitted before we all are free from university for a while. Tomorrow, I have my final test for Music in Popular Culture and I really need to do well in this one to bump up my grade from my […]
Read more "blog #56: testing 1, 2"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 […]
Read more "blog #55: director’s cut"