Week 10 – Tutorial ‘Audio Essay Plan’
A project brief four update; of course as this project is our final statement piece for the semester this tutorial was spent giving notes and feedback about our topics the way we will be going about the essay. The idea we have on forming our essay is to take brief summary notes from our annotated bibliography and turn it into a dialectic script. This would mean we won’t have to spend time researching beyond the information we have already collected thus we can spend more time on the construction of the Audio essay (which will eventually lead to the construction of the film essay). The three topics we will be focusing on is smart wearable devices and the pros and cons they bring to modern society as well as security from Location Bases Services (LBS) and applications proximity settings (including dating apps and facebook) as well as possible radio frequencies and long term danger these devices could possibly have.
Week 9 – In Class Group Collaboration
As project brief four consists of multiple tasks (including a developmental process) more time was given during this week’s tutorial to focus on our topics. Group discussions and feedback was formed in order for our tutor and fellow peers to evaluate and remark on any aspects they think we were able to improve on. It is interesting to see how our personal intrigues into the subject material (mediums and technology; wearable devices) reflects on what we choose for our annotated bibliography. Michael had chosen items that reflected developing technology (google glasses, smart bra) were as I had chosen articles focusing more on the privacy of this developing technology (social media applications such as tinder, happn and grindr). I believe we have quite a good work ethic and collaboration happening, as even if a team member is sick we schedule regular meetings around times which would be easiest for everyone to attend as well as keeping our facebook group page updated and consistently connected through its messenger.
The audio essay is our first tackle and as discussed we will be including interviews from people involved within the technology industry based around wearable devices, we are looking more on items that exclude the smartphone (such as a fitbit or smartwatch) but are also taking smartphones into account to discusses Geolocators and proximity settings as well as privacy. It is good to work with peers who are willing to put in the effort to help each other which can be a Russian roulette in the real media industry where you will not always get paired with the right people.