Sorry the posts are a bit light-on this week (slimmed down a better buzzword perhaps?), but it’s assessment time and I’m neck-deep in powerpoints about Airplane!, essays about financial rhetoric and, of course, the media one team assessment.

As I posted last week, so far I’ve done my article, and I’m hoping to complement it later this week with a twitter feed or blog roll that will hammer home our message of interactivity.

The big news since last update is that we’ve recorded our opening vlog. It hasn’t been uploaded yet (I’ll link it here when it is), but I think that it went well. The three of us (Dusty, Jac and I) recorded ourselves introducing our blog, and plan to insert video annotations to demonstrate the interactivity audiences have when looking at our site. We spoke to camera vlog-style, as we wanted to emulate the techniques of online video producers whose examples of interactive media we are exploring. It was a bit difficult to talk to camera without laughing or getting embarrassed, but we ended up with a video in which each of us took turns explaining the overall idea of the blog and what we’ve been doing individually.

Speaking of which, Dusty managed to score a cool interview with a popular instagram user that you can check out here. I’ll keep you posted for more updates; look forward to Jac’s photo essay on social media and some more interviews from Dusty.