Month: March 2016
Sound Perspective: Part 2.
Leeuwen (1999) discusses how in the film The Piano (1993), the traditional hierarchy of the sound scape shifts during the scene in which Stewart (Sam Neil) chops off Ada’s (Holly Hunter) finger with an Axe. In this scene the music is the Figure sound, while the…
On ‘Perspective’ in Leeuwen’s Speech, Music and Sound: part 1
Leeuwen (1999) discusses how placing sounds at different distances from the listener, changes the way the listener relates to them. He divides sounds into three main groups, Figure, Ground and Field. He proposes that traditionally these sounds were used with Figure being the loudest, closest…
Cymatics
After watching The Beat I Was Born Without I was reminded of a youtube video I saw on Cymatics, a technique in which sound vibrations are made physical. These two videos made me think about how a sense is perceived on many levels. For example in The Beat…
Project Brief Two
For this assignment I took a small and simple part of my identity, and made it the theme of my self expression. Before embarking on this project, we had discussed in class that identity is vast and complex and perhaps it would be more meaningful…
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On Class Discussion About Social Media
Social media makes me feel overwhelmed. I don’t use it very much, especially not facebook because it just makes me feel crap like I am closely involved in 3-400 peoples lives I barely know. I am interested in how fast it moves and where it…
Notes in Class
As discussed by David Gauntlett in the Introduction and Kinds of Knowledge chapters of his book: Making Media.
Creativity Vs Deadlines
Project Brief 2 is approaching quickly. I’m feeling quite sick at the thought. Creativity is not something you can expect to harness in one late coffee fuelled night. Creating something is arguably a very different process than writing an essay. It takes internal reflection, tools…
Gauntlett On Making Media
This weeks readings/media (week 3) featured a short video by David Gauntlett on remaking how we think about media. In this vid he describes how we now understand that we learn with media rather than about media. He argues media should be seen as a…