The ability to curate your own skills, how you have progressed and what you have yet to improve upon is central to any academic discipline, especially those within the creative realm where honest reflection is highly critical to progressing in… Continue Reading →

  “Breaching borders: the parallels between place and person.” Synopsis: How does the community in which you live – as well as those who live within it – espouse the values and ideals that you align yourself with? ‘Breaching borders:… Continue Reading →

I do need to deviate away from my “initiative project” this week to focus in on some work experience that I have started for RMIT TV. I have begun planning the next stage of interviewing subjects in my building, however,… Continue Reading →

What is the controlling idea of your workshop? In Project Three I’m exploring the linkage between environment and sense of self and, essentially, seeking to understand what different people identify in a city that makes it an attractive place to… Continue Reading →

For the latter half of our workshop we had the opportunity to familiarise ourselves with the equipment that we would be required to use for our upcoming projects through a brief interview task between ourselves and classmates. As required in… Continue Reading →

Our workshop this week mostly centred around planning for our upcoming video and how to best capture an authentic and engaging interview on camera. As we know, the editing process is highly critical to cultivating an interesting and differentiated point… Continue Reading →

My preference for more creative subjects – such as media and communications – as opposed to what I have studied in the past, including law, stems largely from the emphasis the former places on subjectivity, rather than objectivity. Legal theories… Continue Reading →

All semiotic modes strive to convey a message between the sender and the receiver, however, editing processes manipulate how that message is articulated and likely perceived. The relationship that the viewer should feel towards the subject is dictated by various… Continue Reading →

  I find one of the most interesting elements of the editing process is its ability to give sound footage context that, otherwise, wouldn’t necessarily have an objective or purpose. Without the additional content to which it is attached it… Continue Reading →

My self-portrait video is underpinned by a pretty simple concept, being to create a “day in the life” representation of self. Given the strict time constraints and the (relatively) heavy volume of content (and various techniques) required to be included,… Continue Reading →