My name is Fiona McEwan and I'm currently in my first year of my Bachelor of Communication (Media). I am an avid Nintendo fan with an everlasting admiration for dogs everywhere. I moved to Melbourne in June of 2015 to pursue my studies and to hopefully discover which direction my career path should follow.
SOUNDS We listened to a podcast about sleep in order to wrap our heads around how ideas could be portrayed creatively for our next assignment. A lot of different sources were used for sounds, including other interviews from other people.…
GRACE: She applied multiple mediums such as 2d drawings/animation, as well as photos. Along with different shots, it was more interesting to look at. Transitions were a bit basic and distracting. There wasn’t any music, so background noise was a bit distracting.…
The most successful aspects on my submitted work would include the cohesiveness of my editing. I have some experience with putting videos together as it used to be a hobby of mine after watching a lot of vlogs and other Youtube…
BLOG POSTING This week, we reviewed how we’re using our blogs and the volume and quality that is expected from the course. I am using links and heavily using tags due to my own experience in keeping a personal blog.…
I think the clarification of what type of questions should be developed in the interview process is going to help me greatly in terms of organising my next project brief and what direction I would like it to go. I’ve…
I had never heard of John Cage before this lecture. But from what I’ve understood, it’s a classic example of post-modernism. As previously discussed in my Pop Culture class, post modern art mostly consists of the “Everything can be art”…
LISTENING VS. HEARING This lecture was focusing on different aspects on listening and general knowledge of sound, anatomically and from an editing standpoint. The difference between hearing and listening was discussed and established that hearing is the action of physically perceiving…
Today’s reading was a David Gauntlett, promoting his new book and evaluating it’s key points. I do like the perspective that media studies should be improved in a way that it’s less documenting and reevaluating what’s already been learned, and…
There wasn’t a third lecture due to a public holiday so I’m not sure what to do with this post. Since it was Labor Day, I spent the day lazing around, filming for my Project Brief coincidently. I felt like…
Staying Still: Project Brief 2 from Fiona McEwan on Vimeo. PASSWORD: media1 My aim with this Project Brief was to portray the changes in my life recently in terms of speed. Not exactly my physical speed (Pfft, like I can…
