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Well, that’s it! I’m 1/6th of the way through my bachelor of communication (media) course at RMIT. It’s honestly been such a great experience – creating content, learning about its theories and applications, and just simply meeting new people (some that I like and some that I dislike). I’ve learnt and been through so much already, so let’s take some time to reflect on it – shall we? Continue reading
SEINFELD — Pictured: Jason Alexander as George Costanza (Photo by Andrew Eccles/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)
Look, let me get this straight. I’m not a fan of 90 degree angles. Continue reading
Last week – our audio essay rough cut was due. It was at this moment, where I learnt that we were behind. This week in our workshop, our video rough cuts were due. How did we go this time?
Surprisingly enough – our tutor seemed to be happy with where we were at. We had all our audio recorded, and cut and edited into the places we wanted them to go. All that was left was to gather pieces of b-roll to overlay on top of the audio.
A graph of my progress throughout the year
Why is it empty?
So the week 11 workshop consisted of me feeling bad about myself. Ha, as if that isn’t new.
Anyway, week 11 was the due date for our audio essay rough cut. And this day was significant because it made us realize how behind we were. Continue reading
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – CD Projekt RED
In this week, the central theme seems to be mediums and the affordances and drawbacks of each of them. And thus, another reason for me to talk about gaming once again – and no, this will not be the last gaming related post.
Gaming as a medium has existed as far back as the early 50’s, where games were created for the purpose of academic research. But nowadays, its has bloomed into one of the largest forms of mediums out there today. But as a way of telling a story, what kind of affordances does gaming have that some of the other forms do not? Continue reading
“Medium theory is a special type of media study that focuses on such characteristics of each medium and on how each medium (or each type of media) physically, socially, and psychologically distinct from other media.” – MURPHIE & POTTS (2002)
I wasn’t here for this weeks lectorial, but from what I gathered from the slides, I figure this sentence sums it up pretty well.
With the interview with Kerri Ritchie coming up in week 11, I just thought I’d post up some of the questions that my group thought of to ask her.
Cheers to Hannah and Yolanda for brainstorming these up!
In the past few workshops – and the workshops to come in the future, it seems that majority of our workshop is taken up by group work in relation to our project brief four. But time after time, I’m starting to see this as more of a hindrance than a benefit. Here’s why.
First of all, let me say that it has nothing to do with the people in my group.
It’s more of the fact that sometimes, our group has no reason to do ‘group work’. To provide some context – I’ve gathered that our group doesn’t do well with planning how we’re going to edit our video/audio essays without any footage in front of us. It seems like most of us – if not all of us, would prefer to record some footage, then work from that. So naturally, we planned a few dates ahead of time where we would all meet-up, and record some vox-pops and interviews. Continue reading
SYN – Player One
All this talk about media institutions has got me thinking about my own personal experiences with public broadcasters.
Recently, I’ve been doing a lot of work with SYN radio – which is a community radio station run by youth (specifically, 12-25 years old). I’m a regular host on Player One, which is one of SYN’s flagship shows that talks exclusively about games. Continue reading