Our final class of the semester involved brainstorming ideas and eating crisps. Week 12 and late on a Friday, we were all pretty wiped. Rachel gave us some advice on the our bits and bobs of our video rough cut we showed her. Her three…
In doing some research for our video/audio essay on gaming I came across this Youtube by Nerdwriter1. In this Youtube Nerdwriter unpacks the discussion around whether video games have the merit to be considered art and in doing so makes some interesting comments about media…
In todays class we had some quick feed back about how to progress with our audio essays. Following this, myself and a member of my group went to work on our audio essay in the editing suite (building 9, basement). Some of the feed back…
‘Stop motion is an animation technique that physically manipulates an object so that it appears to move on its own. The object is moved in small increments between individually photographed frames, creating the illusion of movement when the series of frames is played as a…
In Culture and Technology, Murphie and Potts (2002) discuss the theory of technological determinism (TD). Technological determinists purport that technology is the agent of social change and that technology itself shapes society. For example referring to the digital age, or Information era suggests that society…
I was going to write a blog about some of the lecture material, but then I looked up the video blogger Nerdwriter1 from the lecture, and got totally captivated by his video essays… Here is the first one I stumbled on… It gives a very…
On a final brief note about media institutions; ACMI (The Australian Centre for the Moving Image) is on our very door step. This is why I love living in Melbourne. ACMI’s goal is to celebrate, explore and promote the moving image in all it’s forms….
Institutions: Qualities and affordances: Relationship to the government, nation state or power Values: e.g corporate (The Brand) Rules and regulations: Strategies and tactics:
I took this photo for another subject, but I thought it was a good example of the saturation of media you experience in the city. You can see advertising in this photo even though, the camera is not pointed at the adverts directly.
In this article Dijck and Poell (2015) investigate the rise of social media and it’s affects on Europe’s public service broadcasting (PSB). The article discusses how the mission of PSB has always been to speak to and engage with their citizens. PSB envisioned their role as one…