Week 2 – Haiku Exercise

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…

Week 2 – Initiative post

“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,…

Week 2 – Reading “Blood in the Gutter”

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…

Week 2 – Workshop

In today’s workshop, we first discussed about the lecture and we were given time to present our first assessment of self-portraits within our tables. Not only going through each others blogs, we had to give feedbacks by using “coloured hats” method. There were four coloured…

Week 2 – The Edit

To begin the first day of week 2, we had the former student Jeremy Bowtell who spoke about the concept of editing in media. Personally, I think editing is very important for any kind of media. It presents as the last step of production and shows the…

Week 2 – Lectorial Exercise “Media is Everywhere”

In our week two lecture, we had been divided into small groups of 5 members each and we needed to spend 45 minutes to 1 hours to record all mediated interactions and communication of media. My group was located at Bourke Street Mall and here…

Week 1 – Workshop

I have my first workshop for media on Wednesday. I was almost late for the class as I couldn’t find the room. (I am not the only one, right!!) To start the class, we had 5 minutes to get pair for introducing ourselves and telling…