Week 11 – Work Attachment

At the beginning of lecture this week, we had Rachel came to talk to us about our work attachments. It requires: 80 hours by the end of the semester in which you complete Media 6. Attachment workplace to qualify you must be supervised by a professional practitioner….

Week 10 – Institutions

Institutions is : term from sociology concern with organising structures of society social, cultural, political, economic relations principles, values, rules that underly these There are some example of institutions in the media industry: ABC The News Journalism Newscorp Cinema Broadcast Television Community Radio Public Service…

Week 9 – Audiences

In the media industry, audiences are very important role. In this week’s lecture, we talked about how media built around audiences. At first, WHO CARES ABOUT AUDIENCES? Advertisers Commercial broadcasters, cable networks etc Production houses and individual program makers Government policy makers Social scientist/psychologists Cultural theorists/media scholars…

Week 7 – Collaboration

In this week’s lecture, Rachel spoke about collaboration and teamwork for our further assessment and as well in the media industry. In my opinion, I think communication is a very important role in collaboration. As a team, we need to communicate, discuss and give each other opinions…

Week 6 – Narrative

Part of our lecture today was about narrative structure. Narrative is a form of story. It is a way of telling an events and structuring meaning. The key elements of narrative or story, as following: Controlling idea Character Conflict Structure Character change/ growth One of the…

Week 6 – “Blogging” & “Noticing”

In today’s lecture, Rachel told us that they did not satisfied with our blog posts as we do not have enough posts. Sometimes I feel that I do not have enough time to do the blog posts but in fact, I actually do not know…

Week 5 – Textual analysis

Textual analysis is to find out what are the messages contained in the texts. Texts are everywhere in the media, such as films, TV shows, books, or music. Texts present as a vehicle of how the senders transferring meaning to the viewers. For any kind…

Week 5 – The Art of The Interview

We only left two weeks to do for out project brief 3 and I still had lots questions on how to do the interview. And thanks Louise for giving us a lecture on “the art of the interview” whilst I learned a lot after her lecture….

Sound I love and I hate

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…

Week 4 – “Sound”

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…