HERE ARE THE 5 BLOG POSTS THAT I BELIEVE BEST REFLECT ON MY EXPERIENCE OF THE MEDIA 1 COURSE Week 2 Connection // Noticing Media This connection entry was one of my first, and I think this is the one that truly sparked my initiative to take the Media 1 subject’s content, and apply it […]
Woah – what a time it has been. I can still remember my nervous self on the first day of university at RMIT, unfamiliar and unacquainted with the people and the place. But now I am here, 13 weeks later, familiar with the nooks and crannies of the campus and even more so with the […]
Okay, so today’s session opened with a prolonged remix of music. Strange at first, of unfamiliar (to me) songs .. until good’ ol John Lennon’s ‘Imagine’ kicked in under the slow-jammed bass of the track, grabbing everyone’s attention and ‘ahhhhhh yes’ moment. It provided the laughs and got the energy flowing for the next hour […]
This lectorial saw a smashing presentation by Brian on institutions. INSTITUTIONS: ~ term of sociology ~ concern w/ organising structures of society ~ social, cultural, political and economic relations ~ principles, values, rules that underly these eg. ‘marriage’ is a social institution. EXAMPLES OF INSTITUTIONS: ABC, the news, journalism, Newscorp, cinema, broadcast television, community radio, public […]
Today we were ‘lectorialled’ on audiences. The session was full of information and really interesting in all. Here are the rambling notes I took: ‘WHAT ABOUT THE AUDIENCE?’ – 1980s: Madonna, her groundbreaking influence on music,video, lyrics, sexuality, image, etc. Simple Men, talks criticism of Madonna in media and her influence on her audience Who […]
‘everything is the story | the story is everything’ NARRATIVE: retelling of a sequence of events, they are logical and need causality. CAUSALITY: logical progression of events (cause and effect) character development: – audiences must be presented with a series of situations with an opportunity for a character to respond. – characters start as a […]
I missed today’s lectorial – nooooo. Having managed to miss not one, but TWO trains into the city (note: never again think you’ll have time to walk home and back to the station in time for the next train). This defeat to my human functionality got the better of me, so I decided to stay […]
The first part of week six’s lectorial saw a lady from the library (didn’t get her name) come in and talk to us about all things library. From utilising the online library search, using Google Scholar as an RMIT student and lightly scabbing of La Trobe University’s online tool to help with referencing – luvs it. We […]
With the recent exit of PB#2, enters PB#3. The later being the focus of week five’s lectorial. Instead of the subject being ourself like the past project briefs, this one sees the focus of being somebody we know, a family member, friend or anyone of interesting traits. Another twist to the project is that it […]
BLOOD IN THE GUTTER – Scott McCloud In his fascinating comic, Scott McCloud explores the idea of closure, a phenomena of the human mind. Being it our ability to observe the world in fragments, but essentially perceive it as a whole – giving it, and ourselves closure. We have this ability to mentally complete what is incomplete, purely […]