This week’s reading log is Minds Viewed Globally by Howard Gardner. The reading starts off with Gardner explaining to his readers about his work and research in the field of human psychology. Moving further he speculates saying with the concept of ‘minds’, “ a person will be well equipped to deal with what is expected, […]
This week’s reading is called Finding Time in Digital Age by Judy Wajcman. Judy starts off by contradicting the points Economist Keynes made about how technology would help reduce human work hours of productivity and one could focus on the creative. She says ‘the unparalleled velocity of computerisation, telecommunication and transport which was expected to […]
Changing Forms of Documentary Abstract The following research puts light on changing forms of documentary films affected by the technical innovations over the years. The research shows new forms, outlets and platforms for documentaries to air that have risen in the recent past. The research also shows new ways for the audience to participate, interact […]
This week’s reading is ‘Work’ – The Informal Media Economy by Ramon Lobato and Julian Thomas. It talks about the debate between the emerging new trends in the content creation market in form of creative labour debate. It gives examples of amateur writers trying to break in the industry in this ‘New Economy’ work place. […]
The reading by Cal Newport called ‘Clarity of the Craftsman was a liberating one. It talks about two approaches people take when starting out – The Craftsman’s mindset and The Passion Mindset. He tends to argue that Craftsman’s mindset is the one people should opt rather than the Passion Mindset as passion would follow. He […]
The following article A World of Differences by Chris Lederer and Megan Brownlow talks about the economic and financial spending of Entertainment and Media Industry in different countries in their stride to enter the digital medium. The article predicts the future trend of these industries in five different landscapes namely – Demography – Here the […]
Week 1 Summary This weeks reading talks about the Fourth Industrial Revolution which is characterised by three clusters of mega trend that intervene with each other – Physical, Digital and Biological. It further talks about how the trends and progress in each of the three fields affect the nature of work i.e., relationship between worker […]
To answer my question about Jack’s character and the continuity of the story, if its possible or not. I believe it is. There are many Trans-media projects that are open and there are many that are closed such as lets say The Star Wars saga. It is open ended. Fans and artists can build up […]
Now the big question was how does the story play out in real life. After brainstorming countless possibilities analyzing the possibilities and feasibility for our project we decided to go with a news breakout story. We intended to put an ad in the newspaper about an article which we would write. But soon realized that […]
So finally we have content that we can boast about in our website. After hours of editing I finally managed to create a number of documents for the reports, a webcam video and a sound clip design which all stand on its own and also add layers to our story. Below are a few documents […]