Good Form: Assessment Task 1

https://drive.google.com/a/rmit.edu.au/file/d/0B53O7sbFe2M9ZHRGRERncDFYTmM/view?usp=sharing One moment in this scene that I feel works well is the line “so what did the cat play?” It works well because there is a significant pause after the spiel about the lecture and it is clear the character has given up trying…

Haiku Exercise

After last weeks workshop, the haiku exercise was set in order to help us practice and improve our skills using Adobe Premiere Pro. I have worked with other versions of the software in the past, so although this is not my best work, it was…

Cinemas Not Dead

This week many of my classes have looked at how the nature of the media industry has changed, and is continuously changing. This idea was also reflected in this week’s film for Cinema Studies Holy Motors, which while an incredibly perplexing film, many scholars believe to…

Workshop Two: Hats and Haikus

In Thursday’s workshop, we used the coloured hat system as a way of giving constructive feedback to our classmates about their lo-fi media self-portraits. The system uses four different ‘hats’ to focus on different kinds of feedback. Red hat – signifies feelings, hunches and intuition Black…

Brief 1: Lo-fi Media Self-Portrait

Audio The first two recording were taken at lunch at Lentil as Anything in Northcote with some friends. Zoodles and Dosas: In this recording, you can hear my friends in a cafe, discussing the food on the menu, most noticeably dosas. My friends and I…

Reading: “Blood in the Gutter” by Scott McCloud

This week’s reading was a little different, in that it was actually a comic. Scott McCloud’s “Blood in the Gutter” analysis different kinds of comics, and the sort of transitions they use from frame to frame. He sorts these transitions into the following 6 categories:…

Lectorial Two: Media is our ecology

 “Our lives are, to a more extensive degree than we care to think, infused with a process of inscription, producing printed or written traces or working from them. The omnipresence of these documentary or textual processes is now being entered by the technology of computers”…