Our workshop this week began by looking into other classmates blogs and commenting on them. This was really interesting to see where other people are at and gave me inspiration to push my ideas more and use there blogs to guide me to improve mine.
In this week’s reading, when discussing hypertexts Landow suggests his students “fall in through the living-room ceiling rather than entering through the front door.” (p 111). This “discusses how navigation and orientation devices that will give readers some idea of where they have landed – and perhaps encourage the to keep reading”, basically this discusses how when we interact and navigate our way around the internet and hypertexts, we often don’t come in so to speak at the start. For example with blogs we may see the most recent posts or may be linked to a random post as opposed to starting from the first blog. Blog posts whilst often all in relation to each other, there may be different sections and themes that a reader may come across. But this doesn’t necessarily matter, we are no longer in this era of just books where we must read from start to end to take ideas from this text. Now we can choose what to read and when and we will still take a meaningful message from it. It is quite rare I find that we actually look at a hypertext or blog that we go in through the home page, websites and such are slightly different as the when we google a certain topic and get onto a website the homepage is what grounds us and from there we can navigate. Otherwise links, pages and tags are how we “fall through the ceiling” and from there we use other pages, tags and links to find out about the site and navigate the site, finding other posts and in turn discover more about the site and what its about. On Facebook as an example often we see stories and links to certain posts which when we click on them are links to a certain reading or post of something, and the website that we are on we generally don’t know of but have just entered the site through a random post that interests us. everyday on Facebook, people have liked a page such as something from Buzz feed where an article on how to make a burger cake and this link I click on and read, which then once you start reading you find other links on the page to different cake posts and then other buzzed videos, which we can then navigate to their youtube channel.
We then set up a Hootsuite account that allowed us to coordinate, control and use multiple social media platforms at once, as my blog is not a WordPress I couldn’t add mine to the tool. However I added my Instagram, Facebook and twitter account added and is a really simple way to look at all the streams on the same page.
Finding things that relate to our blog idea and see where we end up …
I google behind the scene film set and came across 100 pictures from famous movies that were behind the scenes http://www.rsvlts.com/2015/03/27/100-behind-the-scenes-movies/
then this linked me to a blog that whilst slightly unrelated but looks interesting http://www.rsvlts.com/2016/04/06/modern-movie-vhs-art/, this was about a man who gave modern movies VHS. This sort of came to a dead end and I was no longer interested in this so I went back to google and clicked on a mans blog who posts video and posts about making movies and how he does it, this then took me to Vimeo where I watched a few of his videos on how he uses equipment. Through my exploration I then ended up googling a specific camera which linked me to youtube and from there I ended up watching heaps of new movie trailers. There was one trailer which linked to a review in the comments http://screenrant.com/the-witch-movie-2016-reviews/. I then found this blog which linked me to a website screen rant where it shows all news and updates of Film and TV.
This showed me how the internet has lots of interactive components and the numerous different links, led me to comments, different sites, blogs, new articles and youtube. All of which allowed me to engage in broader knowledge of the topic I originally researched but this ended in me looking at something completely different.