Talking about the media, I have to say it is a truth that media is a powerful and argumentative platform in the world. Obviously, you can see media that is full of everywhere, especially in the modern areas such as New York, Beijing, London and Melbourne. Well, I live in 21 century, and I can feel the great power of the media. And in this passage, I would like to talk about a important thing point that the ideology and the world view of media producer.

Just take the Hollywood in the United States as an example, lots of movies and TV shows made by Hollywood are spread to almost everywhere in the world. Many movies have obvious American style such as individualistic heroism, and those American culture and style affect lots of audience. Day by day, the American movies affect almost everyone in the world, especially those who like to see the movies made by Hollywood.

So I want to say that we need to care about the quality of the video we made, the quality include the meaning, ideology, philosophy, world view and the sense of value. Do not make video only for money and wealth. As a video producer, our ideology needs to be right and positive first. Indeed, it is hard to evaluate what is right, but there is one thing that have to be mentioned and remembered is that the video ought to contribute the society. Different societies and nations have their own values so it is impossible to make everyone in the world to accept our opinion. Just try your best to change the little thing in the society.

And also, we need to respect other video producer even they have different opinions to you, the world need to be colorful and multiple.

That all, thank you.

At first, professor Louise Turley showed us the photos we took last week, the topic is Melbourne Moment. Lots of great photos took by us students, one is about a cup of coffee because Melbourne is famous for the coffee, and many citizens call Melbourne as the city of coffee. One is about the basketball court of our university, it was very great, looking like a fantastic picture painted by an artist. I have to say that photo is the best one, even better than mine.

Next part of this workshop was so fun, all the students were allocated in some small groups, and in my group there were four students, Sylvia, James, Isobel and me. Each student stood for a different color, and the color I stood for is red which mean the positive and creative points. In this cooperation, we need to see the assignments of each member, and evaluate that. I saw the audio of piano that played by Sylvia and her boyfriends, the whoop of James when he was running. Isobel stood for black which mean the negative points, in my opinion that is the hardest one in our four colors.

At the end, we were told the project brief 2, and took some videos outside. It seems like we need to do more things.

Thank you professor Louise and my classmates.

It is the second week for me in the school, we talked about What is media.

Well, at the begining of the lecture, Brian Morris showed us a slide about the assessment of this semester, and I feel a little nervous because lots of assignments would be assessed in short time.

Then, Jeremy Bowtell explained the editing in four defferent points, and the creative meaning. Indeed I have to say that I the editing one is so fun because I don’t konw the editing can be discribed as holes, juxtaposition, a process of fixing and breaking, and evident. For the creative meaning, I prefer the explaination that tendentious (argumentative) selection and juxtaposition, influencing audience in the desired direction. It means the media has the power to control and change something like the mind of audience. After that we saw a historical vedio named Man With The Movie Camera, published in 1929. Edward Dmytryk said that never make a cut without a positive reason, this one leaves me a deep impresstion. Before we make films, documentary and others, we need to make sure that the things we made need to be good for the society. According to Walter Murch, the three vital points is emotion, story and rhythm. Well, of course, the topic that the cut we made need to be arounded by emotion, story and rhythm.

Back to the Brian Morris’s part, we were asked to write down five things when we hear the word that media. Lots of ideas from students are great such as information transfer, bridge between the maker and audiencem, the power to change the world. The five things I thought over are power to control and change the world, an argumentative area, a world connect real and fake, a commen thing, and the platform almost everyone relay on.

In the next part Brian showed us lots of photoes he took when he traveled in Japan. It is easy to find out that the in everywhere, we can see the media. In one photo, the Eastern culture and Western culture get together, making it look so fun.

Now i come to know more about the media.

To take this photo, I have tried a lot of position, and finally I almost laied on the ground. This photo was took in the spring, I want to express the vitality of the life in the new spring so I used the sun for setting against the flower.

In media, to emphasize the main topic, we have a great and effective way that finding an obeject for setting against the subject. In this way, we have two kind of object to choose, one is standing on the same side of the subject, the other one is standing on the opposite side.

Firstly, tlaking about the object that standing on the same side of the subject, we can use this object to set against the subect so that the meaning that we want the audience know of the suject can be stressed. For example, the photo I posted above, the subject is the flower and the sun is the object. The sun is shining and the sunshine is warm, that can be simplly used to let audience to understand the vitality of the life in the spring.

Then, regarding to the object that standing ont the opposite side of the subject, it is more easier to understand because we often see this in lots of classical and typical stories such as the Snos White, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D and Cinderella. In these stories, there is a commen point that a kind and nice subject and a evil enemy. And also, the subject always win against the enemy. This is the contrast. The evil enemy always serces as a foil to the kind and  righteous subject so that the main idea that justice and kindness win forever can be stressed.

Redaing: Hyper and deep attention: The Generational Divide in Cognitive Modes

According to this passage, the main topic are the hyper attention and deep attention. In the first paragrath, the aurthor says that ‘we need to become aware of the shift, understand its causes, and think careatively and innovatively about new ducational strategies appropriate to the coming changes.’ So we can find out that there are some relations between the hyper and deep attention and the things I mentioned before.

Deep attention, always be associated with tive things that are humanities, focusing on a single object for a long time, neglecting outside stimulations, favorring of a single information atream, and having a high tolerancefor a long focus periods. Hyper attention is described ny awithing focus rapidly among different tasks, reasearching a high level of stimulation, interesting in multipel information streams, and havng a low tolerance for boredom.

For many famous scientists, deep attention is the only or the best way for them to sove some very conplex problems. If people cannot focus on one thing with the whole attention, it is not easy to get some achievements. However, in recent years, more and more informations coming from any media appear in the frount of people, like a storm. Now, people have to face numerous informations of any areas, that attracts people. We cannot say it is negetive for all the people because it can broaden people’s horizen, that can help people to integrate into the current and modern society.

Well I think that because of the numerous informations, increasing people used to use the hyper attention. For the whole society, it may not be good. For example, more people have increasing informations to read and less of them would like to focus on one single thing, many difficult problems cannot be soled as soon as possible. In this case, less professional people would come in the society and our science is hard to be developed.

Don’t you think it is so awkard to be asked by someone whem you cannot answer they for the inforfmations you have seem before.

The workshop is at 8:30 in the Wednesday morning, although it is early, I was the first student in the class. Prof.Louise Turley is my teacher, and she is a nice, beautiful and patient lady, I like her. At first, luoise asked us to chat with someone, and Ryan is that guy. Actually, Ryan is the first guy i chatted with in the workshop. The thing amazed me is that he has a cat that is 21 years old now! Like him. It makes me remember my cat, she was nice but dead. Oh, we still talked more about tbe hyper and deep attention. In my group, we discussed the pros and cons of the hyper attention. In my group, except me, other three calssmates prefer hyper attention so I suppose that why we wrote lots of pros of the hyper attention and less cons of that. Also in this workshop, a great part of students always use hyper attention and it seens liked there was only me supported deep attention. Well, honestly, I want to stand between hyper attention and deep attention, becouse I use deep attention when I focus on somethings that I am keen in. As everyone know, everyone only have 24hrs per day, the time is limited. We cannot do everything in our life so we have to choose what we need to focus. For example, I study Media mow so I will take more care of News and informations about Media. I am not good at pop music and also I am not keen in that, that is why I would not spend time to read the News and informations.

Well, it depends on person.

On that day, we saw a vedio of Justin Bieber. I have to admit the content of the vedio and the melody is great. This song is about love, and the content is a couple live together and the regular and general life of them. The great point is that all the story is presented by dancing! This couple dance since they wake up from the bed, they change the boring thing into interesting. It just seems like the maker want us to know the regular life between a lovely couple is beautiful without boring. The backgroud’s colour mainly is gray and white, that could makes audience feel calm and peaceful. The cool color set off the placid melody, telling people a small and regular love story.

Regarding to the assignment, I am comfused about that for a few days.
I hope Lousie and my calssmates would like my assignment.