Week 12 – workshop (Video Rough Cut)

I can’t believe that today is the last class for the semester. Time is flying by and I really like to thanks Brain for teaching us so much knowledge and giving as such productive lessons. In the class, we discussed with Brain about our video essay….

Week 11 – workshop (Audio Rough Cut)

Today, we showed our audio rough cut to Brain and he gave us some suggestions. More content in our audio essay. More academic resources. Make some change at the beginning. The form of audio essay can be more entertaining. The format for our audio essay…

Week 10 – workshop

Today’s workshop, as the topic of Reality TV is too wide, we decided to narrow down to “Why do we tune into Reality TV?”. We had separated the part into three segment of audience, production and structure. We then work as a group to finish up the AV…

Week 9 – workshop

In today’s workshop, we had each group to give a brief of the project. We focused the topic that we are going to use for pb4 and also shared the source that we found interesting and useful for the annotated bibliography. Today was really a productive workshop that we…

Week 8 – workshop

At the beginning of our workshop today, we listened to an audio essay from radio lab about sleep. Before listened to this, I didn’t know the audio essay could be so interesting. At first I thought the audio essay would be people talking from a script straight…

Week 7 – workshop

In today’s workshop, we were asked to review everyone’s project brief 3 and giving feedback. It is always interesting on watching other’s work, some of our classmates’ works are just amazing. I am always wondering how they can be so creative on the project comparing…

PB3 – Peer Reviews

In today’s workshop, we viewed the project brief 3 from our class and we were asked to give the reviews. Therefore, below is my feedback for our table. Even: She did use two types of interviewing – video and voice over and she provided questions…

Week 6 – Workshop exercise – Narrative structure in PB3

1. What is the ‘controlling idea’ (Robert McKee) of your portrait? The controlling idea of this portrait is the passion of fashion. Anna, my interviewee is a fashion lover in China and she has studied fashion in Melbourne for 6 years. The most interesting thing about…

Week 6 – Workshop

In today’s workshop, we received our marks back. I was really nervous to open the file. After getting the result, I felt a little bit disappointed. Reading at the feedback and I understood what was going wrong with my blog posts and what I had to…

Week 5 – Sony MC50 Interview Exercise

What problems did you encounter? Firstly, we had overlooked the part of reaction from the interviewer. After went back to the class, we discussed with Brain and we had him to do a short part of reaction for the interview. Secondly, we decided to do…