This week’s lectorial topic was remixes, and I was particularly interested in the area of remix culture with the idea of taking source materials, deconstructing them and reconstructing them to create new meanings. From the lecture slides, I took note… Continue Reading
Robbie was away for this week’s workshop but our group continued to have productive sessions, making really good progress on our project brief. In the morning session, we went through the work we created in the last week and worked… Continue Reading
THE GAP by Ira Glass from Daniel Sax on Vimeo. Ugh. Ugh ugh ugh ugh ugh ugh ugh. Week 10 and I have three big assignments due in the near future and the weather is crappy and all I want… Continue Reading
This week’s lectorial topic was institutions, which was really helpful as it is also our group’s Project Brief 4 topic, but also really interesting. I found the discussions examining certain institutions particularly interesting. For example, we discussed what makes marriage… Continue Reading
Today was another productive session with our group, in which we progressed further with our project brief. We have allocated tasks for each of us to complete before next week’s session, as well as organised video ideas as our group… Continue Reading
Splitscreen: A Love Story from James W Griffiths on Vimeo. This film is a great example of technology not being an essential factor in good filmmaking. The entire short film was shot on a Nokia smartphone. However, the idea of… Continue Reading
This week’s lectorial focused on the topic of audiences, covering aspects such as key debates in theories of audience, the position of audiences as consumers, changing ideas in a post broadcast era, ratings, and fandom culture. I particularly was interested… Continue Reading
Today in the workshop, Alana and I had a really helpful discussion with Robbie that gave us many ideas about how to go forward with our project. We’ve decided to create a multi media platform with a Tumblr website as… Continue Reading
This is a video that I came across during Year 11 VCE Media. It’s an ad from the organisation GetUp! that was produced as part of a campaign to legalise same sex marriage in Australia. It’s done in a really… Continue Reading
In this week’s lectorial, Dan talked about the concepts of narrative and non-narrative. I liked the idea that Dan spoke about of the fact that story is our way of structuring existence: “everything is story and story is everything”. In… Continue Reading