In this week’s reading, David Gauntlett introduced us to the concept of what the media is like now and how we should deal with the rapidly changing and evolving situation in media. ‘For me, media studies today consists of a diminished blob of the old themes, but with two new peaks of exciting and vital activity on either side. One…
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Week 3 Reading – ‘Blood in the Gutter’
In this comics created by Scott McCloud, a concept of ‘Closure’ is established to the viewers. Closure is how the brain works to connect one scene to another or one panel to another. McCloud concluded that there are several types of panel-to-panel transitions that would appear in comics: Moment-to-Moment Action-to-Action Subject-to-Subject Scene-to-Scene Aspect-to-Aspect Non-sequitur It is quite hard for me…
Week 4 Reading ‘The Clarity of the Craftsman’
THE CRAFTSMAN MINDSET VS THE PASSION MINDSE the craftsman mindset focuses on what you can offer the world. “Nobody ever takes note of [my advice], because it’s not the answer they wanted to hear,” Martin said. “What they want to hear is ‘Here’s how you get an agent, here’s how you write a script,’ … but I always say, ‘Be…