In today’s lecture, we were asked “what are some sounds you love or hate? What memories do they evoke?” Personally, I never really think about this question before. There are so many sounds around me but what are the sounds I like and I hate. I…
This week’s topic for lecture and reading is “sound”. To begin of class, we discussed about media affordances which refers to the “specific and unique attributes that a medium may have”. Next we talked about the difference between “hearing” and “listening”. Hearing simply means sounds…
I went to Centre for Contemporary Photography this morning. In the centre, there were various works exhibiting on the wall by five different photographers. I spent an hour there, looking through every single art. I felt so amazing about every art which contain their own stories…
“View of back” is what I want to express myself through the third person’s sight. Unlike the work done in project brief 1 which is more about my daily life, in project brief 2, I tried to explain what I love to do. I separated…
This week’s reading is “Making Media Studies” from the author David Gauntlett. Media has developed rapidly and there are many differences between past and now. Gauntlett discusses there are two peaks in the current media. First peak is creativity that people are making new things…
After the lecture of editing from Jeremy Bowtell, I realised how important editing is. For my project brief 2, I used three software to edit the media. Firstly, I used Photoshop to edit photos. The photos became brighter and clearer after editing. Secondly, I used Logic…
Due to the break of Labour Day, we did not have lecture for this week, so in our workshop lesson, we first discussed about the reading by David Gauntlett which talked about creativity and digital media. Next we had divided into 4 groups and once…
In this week workshop, we were given a exercise to make a Haiku video by using Adobe Premiere Pro. I had a hard time on the software while this is my first time making my own video, and I spend like an hour to figure out…
“Media is everywhere.” This is my third week living in Melbourne. Yes, I am totally new here. Before I came to Melbourne, I did know much thing about this place. Hence, I went on research online to find more information. After I came to Melbourne,…
This week’s reading, “Blood in the Gutter” by Scott McCloud, is a comic describing comics. McCloud uses the idea of “closure” which means observing the parts but perceiving the whole to start the comic. He uses the example of comics above to prove the aspect…