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‘Blood in the Gutter’ and manga

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Before I begin, let me preface this by saying that this post is a post relating to the reading of week two, while also being an initiative post; where I relate an idea to media that I have encountered.

To summarise, the reading for week two was a comic about comics. And it was by far one of my favourite readings I’ve encountered so far. Let me explain. The reading explained the importance between the spaces of the frames within a comic. It discussed how we – as an audience, have an active role to play while reading a comic, as we commit closure to make a link between the frames within a comic. Closure is described as “observing the parts but perceiving the whole”.

Credit - Scott McCloud "Blood in the Gutter"

Credit – Scott McCloud “Blood in the Gutter”

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Coloured hats and a haiku

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Photo Credit: dennoir via Compfight cc

Photo Credit: dennoir via Compfight cc

The workshop for week two had quite a few interesting things in store for me. If you haven’t seen my previous post, I showcased my final ‘creative self-portrait’ with all the components of each medium. In this weeks workshop, we had to present it – but in an unorthodox way. Instead of presenting to the entire class, we split-off into small groups. Within each group, every person would take turns presenting their work.

The listeners of the group would then have to provide their feedback to the presenter, so that they could better evaluate their work. But this is where it became ‘unorthodox’. Instead of each person saying what they really thought about the work presented to them, each person represented a ‘hat’ from the ‘six thinking hat’ system. If you aren’t familiar with this system – simply put, it’s a tool used for group discussions that help to give feedback from multiple perspectives. Each hat represented a different perspective. We used four out of the six hats, which goes as follows:

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Creative self-portrait (Project brief one)

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If you’ve kept up with my blog, you’ll understand what my title is referring to. If you haven’t, let me briefly summarise.

The ‘creative self-portrait’ was our first project for our bachelor of communication course. The self-portrait comprises of different mediums of media (image, video, audio and text) that represent one’s identity. How we chose to represent ourselves was completely up to us and our creative imaginations (hence the ‘creative’ part). So without further ado, here is my creative self-portrait.

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It’s all around us…

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Photo Credit: Jim Frazier via Compfight cc

Today’s lectorial covered two topics of interest. First of all we covered the importance of editing. We learned how the most minute changes can greatly affect the result. I will cover this topic in a later blog post, sometime during this week.

What I want to discuss today is the second topic; the importance of media. Today’s class began with a very important question – what is media? Upon hearing this question, I was actually stumped. You would think that a student undergoing a media course would know what falls under the umbrella of ‘media’. However, I found myself struggling to give a simple definition of the term ‘media’. As individuals, we were told to come up with the first five things that we think of when we hear the word ‘media’. As I did with a similar task that we did in the first lectorial, I ended up with less answers as was instructed. Oops. As a class, we discussed the different types of media and its effects on its audiences. As I jotted down the answers of the other students, my list of three media related things soon turned into twenty. By the end of it, one thing was made certain by this activity. Media is everywhere.

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