Whoa. Can’t believe that after this lectorial, I will have officially completed my first semester at university as a Media student – and what a way to end with a bang. I found Dan’s discussion of media materialism really fascinating… Continue Reading
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
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
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
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
One of the topics of today’s lecture was the concept of semiotics. Having studied Year 12 Media, I already had some prior knowledge about the concept and was interested in Brian’s further discussion. I found this week’s reading about Barthes’… Continue Reading
This week’s lectorial theme was ‘collaboration’. It simultaneously excites and scares me that much of the next three years of this program involves working in groups and collaborating with my peers; and that in the media industry in which I… Continue Reading
In today’s lecture, we were given the new project brief which is to create a two minute media portrait of someone in our lives. I’m pretty excited to go out and create something and play with the equipment we need… Continue Reading
This week one of the subjects discussed in the lectorial was the function of editing. I thought that what Liam talked about was really interesting and I loved the examples he used to demonstrate his ideas. Even though I didn’t… Continue Reading
Having not had much experience watching or making documentaries apart from the occasional one in school, the world of documentary is not something I was extremely interested in. However, after Kyla’s introduction this afternoon, I was pleasantly surprised at the… Continue Reading