I have locked in the dates mentioned in the Lectorial about the studios and they honestly sound very exciting. I originally went into this course to focus solely on filmmaking and editing but the course is Media not film, and at first I was rolling my eyes at the lectures on Media affordances, and social media.

That part of my mind is reserved for people who are really good at curating their Instagrams, and if you’ve seen my gram, you will understand why I’ve ruled myself out of social media. It’s a hot mess.

Yet the further we explored through media as an online institution, the places and spaces and the materialism and flexibility media can have, or not have, was fascinating. I think in the studios I might try to stray from film and TV and hopefully make something that will set me up as an online media practitioner.
I hope I get to do something like Miranda July’s app Somebody. An app where strangers were asked to deliver messages between friends rather than messaging online. It brought a physical side to messaging again.