Author: ashleyfox

Write a 500 word individual reflection on the making of the podcast, including the team processes and the part you played in the production. This must contain references to at least 3 of the course materials – including readings and podcasts. Our process started with deciding how to approach the topic of ‘anger’. We were all initially really keen to avoid discussing the COVID-19 pandemic and focus on some of the other issues that had arisen during 2020. After discussion amongst ourselves and the class, the topics naturally began to revolve around the pandemic and how people had felt and … Continue reading TELLING STORIES WITH SOUND – Assignment 4

Write your 500 word reflection on the production process of your individual short feature story on your blog.  Don’t forget to include references to at least 3 of the course materials in your reflection.  I chose to focus my podcast segment on an issue that I’m passionate about; exposing the alarmingly high rates of domestic violence in Australia. I was initially unsure if there was an appropriate angle to discuss this topic under our group’s selected theme of ‘anger’, but I decided to explore the topic through an interview before deciding how I would contextualise it within our topic brief.  … Continue reading TELLING STORIES WITH SOUND – Assignment 4

This assignment was a massive struggle for me. My MacBook finally decided to give up on me before I was able to complete editing and mixing my piece. There was a frantic struggle to get hold of a new device from RMIT. Luckily I’m a staff member there so I was able to arrange a long-term loan of one of the Student Life laptops. The whole process of having the laptop delivered took over a week, as I was unable to obtain a pass to get on campus. Eventually the device was delivered to me via courier, which was well … Continue reading TELLING STORIES WITH SOUND – Assignment 2

I wasn’t totally unhappy with the interview recording with Claire, but I do feel that there were several easily fixed mistakes in the final edit. I should have picked up on them had I listened back to the conversation much more carefully. There is an unbalance in the room tone which could have been resolved by recording a new track with less disturbances in the background, and the recording could have been cleaned up a bit more to remove high end hiss. There are a lot of pauses from Claire in my interview. I decided to keep them all in … Continue reading TELLING STORIES WITH SOUND – Assignment 1

ashfox · Farming Soundscape   My approach towards making media has progressed in the past few months, specifically due to one passage that I read in Phillip Hammond’s text Climate Change and Post-Political Communication: Media, Emotion, and Environmental Advocacy. In this text are comments made by Anabela Carvalho, who talks about the dismissive language that is used when climate action is communicated to the public. Carvalho refers to this as being “passive” and “childlike”. I didn’t want my practise to pander to these same dismissive notions, and this thinking became a major part of my guidance in constructing my media artefact. The … Continue reading PROMPT 12

The first thing I decided to do once I had considered the critical feedback from Elizabeth, Wendy, Amy and Cormack was to completely overhaul my entire idea. I decided to keep the topic of food production but the method of communication needed to be revised. My intention was to illustrate the developments in farming techniques from pre-industrial to modern era through a series of heavily edited photographic collages. However, when I began the process of actually constructing the images in Photoshop I found that a significant deficit in my skills with the software was letting me down. I was unhappy … Continue reading PROMPT 11

The feedback I received from my presentation was very positive. I feel that the panellists were really engaged with the topic I had chosen and they all gave me constructive comments, which helped me in rethinking a few aspects of my project. My ideas had been indecisive and complicated and the presentation feedback allowed me to focus in on what I actually wanted to communicate through my media artefact. Wendy asked me whether I had through about including home gardening in my piece, or if I was only focusing on large-scale agriculture. I hadn’t given the idea much thought until … Continue reading PROMPT 10

Presentation Feedback – Elizabeth Busch   I really like Elizabeth’s focus on feral cat’s as a hyperobject. Although I wouldn’t have thought about such a specific topic as a hyperobject, I can see how it fits in amongst invasive species as a broader topic. Placing the images of over-domesticated cats being shared on social media against the reality of feral cats living in the wild gives this project a really interesting twist. presenting feral cats as they actual look and behave is probably something that most people have never seen before, and it definitely has a chance to challenge the … Continue reading PROMPT 9

The topic of my presentation and my media artefact is food production. I chose this topic because I have a huge interest in urban farming, sustainability,  self-reliance, and alternative living practices. The main theme throughout these interests is finding an alternative way of sustaining our current needs and desires by using new technology and resources to revert back to a more simple means of obtaining food. I firmly believe that the agricultural industry is one of, if not the most influential player in the climate change debate. Agribusiness is built and sustained on energy consumption and energy production. The current models … Continue reading PROMPT 8

Adeline Johns-Putra’s text challenges the idea of traditional modes of philosophical enquiry in understanding the enormity of climate change. We are asked to consider whether we will see the emergence of a new ‘critical climate’ in which our capacity for understanding progressive philosophical rhetoric (such as understanding the impact of humans outside of the human experience) is applied in our approach to climate change, or will we simply revert back to our ‘old habits of critique’ which have been the foundation in understanding the natural world around us up until this point. In current climate media it would seem that … Continue reading PROMPT 7