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Week 11 – Workshop
This week’s workshop is talking about our group video essay of our PB4 :
| Brainstorming and specify topics in video essay: |
| Explore Instagram as an important medium which |
| covers topics in photojournalism, business marketing |
| and personal communication |
| Delegated work: to collate text and visuals for |
| Photojournalism |
| Marketing and Influencers |
| Personal Creativity and Communication |
Also, we show Brian our audio rough cut, here is his suggestion:
- It represents an academic style of out audio essay, which applied and utilized a lot of acamedic resources.
- Some recorded voice in the audio is too high. If we can’t edit it in software, we should re-record these part.
- It will make our audio essay seems more like a real radio if we apply more sound effects.
For me, the work of making a audio-based media is difficult for me because it is a new area for me to adapt to. Generally speaking, a audio-based media is much more harder than a vedio-based media. The most important really is that we can use a lot of visual resources in a vedio-based media. There is a word says seeing is the most accepatable way for people to mutually understand. However, the only method we can utilize to make the theme clear is sound. We can not present images to audiences to express the central theme. In the processing of audio-based media, the most challenge part is how to use sound effects, tone of people taking, emotional transformation and efficently representation of footages, despite these areas are still crucial to vedio-based media. During my processing work, I guadually utilized sound effects into the media, but the rough cut effect does not reach the expecting standard. Brian figured this issue out and suggest me to pay more effort on this problem. I understand this issue and fix it up in next few days.
Week 12 – Workshop
In week 12’s workshop (PB4 Group work) :
| Failure to produce rough cut of video essay |
| Consolidated sources and information |
| Completed script and audio recording for video |
| Video editing |
| Supervision & delegation of documents for project dossier |
We disscussed a lot of example for our video essay, such as:
Antonio Olmos is a middle-aged photojournalist from Mexico who has been working for almost 30 years. He is one of many photographers who sees this century old industry as under threat of being dismantled by smartphones. With the ease of capturing and uploading images, more traditional cameras may not be needed anymore, thus possibly decreasing the income of many photographers.
Another example, Robert Capa is a world famous war photographer known for his iconic photos taken in the Spanish Civil War and WWII. His camera of choice was a Leica SM 35 mm camera; it’s not a large model, but heavy and complicated. If the film inside was waterlogged or ruined in any way, the whole camera would be disabled. Tinkering with the technical aspects of the camera would more likely place Capa in a dangerous situation; winding the film, adjusting the aperture, shutter speed and ISO manually, then releasing and winding the film again, all requires time in a war zone.
Week 10 – Workshop
This week’s workshop is talking about our audio essay :
| OBJECTIVE |
| Build up camaraderie |
| Consolidated Sources |
| Prepared Script for Audio Essay |
| Edited Script |
We stucture our audio essay be a form of radio style. And we started to write the conversation. We will exploring the modern camera as an effective communication tool in today’s participatory culture.
Audio Essay will based on “How The Phone Camera Affects Our Memory”
Week 9 – Workshop
In week 9’s workshop, our PB4 discussion is based on our Annotated Bibliographies:
| Narrowed Project Statement: |
| Exploring the modern camera as an effective communication tool in today’s participatory culture. |
| Defined Audio Essay: |
| “How The Phone Camera Affects Our Memory” |
| Agreement on essay concept: |
| Radio program series about “Mediums and Technology” |
| Delegated Work: |
| Source quotes and references for audio essay topic |
Week 8 – Workshop
For this week’s workshop. We discussed our PB4 more:
| OBJECTIVE |
| Narrowed project statement: |
| Exploring what/who are the major influencers and how they afffect trends and relationships |
| between technological gadgets and online platforms |
| Brian suggested we define project statement more specifically |
| Changed project statement: |
| To document how accessibility of camera has changed out use of it |
| Established Objectives: |
| How has changes in the physical camera expanded its functions and types of users? |
| Established sub-topics: |
| – History of processing photos |
| What are the specific events in evolution of camera? |
| E.g. pinhole camera, digital camera, etc. |
| – Photography’s expanded functions |
| E.g. photojournalism, fine arts vs perosnal self-expression, photography business |
| Delegated Work: |
| – Significant changes in photojournalism |
| – Photography as fine arts vs personal self-expresison |
| – How photography business has evolved |
Week 7 – Workshop
In this week’s workshop. We all have a view of everyone’s PB3. And a lot of my classmates they did a very good work. And i learned a lot from them.
The most important thing is, we start to work on our PB4.
And we have disscussed our topic of PB4 a lot, and conclude them to this form:
| Chose research topic: “Mediums and Technology” |
| Mindamapped to brainstorm possible directions |
| Established Project Statement: |
| To explore trends and relationships between technological gadgets and online platforms |
| Specific Subjects and Delegated Work: |
| Vlogging |
| Photography |
| online Media Publishing |
It’s the first time i do a goup project brief, i’m very exciting about this. My group members have a lot of ideas about the topic. While we are doing the mind map in the workshop. Thay all had a lot of things to discuss. They give me a lot of ideas about our topic. It make me feel more confidence to our project!!! It is a good start!!!