For our second project brief, we had to produce a media self-portrait consisting of media components all recorded by us and edit them into a video. For my video, I used 5 photos, 6 videos and 4 sounds all recorded with my phone, and edited them using Adobe Premiere Pro. In my video, I wanted […]
Read more "Hi"Should we consider the friends we meet on social media like the friends we see on a day-to-day basis? Not really — to some extent. I say ‘not really’ instead of ‘no’ because I feel like that’s too strong and definitive as an answer. And I can already feel that I’m going to write an […]
Read more "Let’s Catch Up"In our Cinema Studies screening this week, we were introduced to experimental films. For a person who has never watched experimental films before and has always been into narrative films, this was all so new and weird to me. The first film we watched was Ballet Mecanique and about halfway through it, I literally said […]
Read more "Try This"In this week’s workshop, we discussed an array of things, but of course, all still relating to media. We began by watching a short video of UK academic, David Gauntlett as he discusses his new book, Making Media Studies: The Creativity Turn in Media and Cultural Studies. He makes points about making media to describe […]
Read more "Tell Me About It"For this week’s reading, we were asked to read blog posts by UK academic, David Gauntlett, where he introduces the key topics of his new book Making Media Studies: The Creativity Turn in Media and Cultural Studies and the knowledge about media that is currently essential. In his Introduction, Gauntlett explains how media studies can […]
Read more "It’s Not Just Me(dia), It’s You Too"Is being unmediated what makes you more authentic? How do we remain authentic in a world where most of our experiences are now mediated? My answer to the first question is no — to some extent. And to the second one, I’ll get to that. In this day and age, I think being ‘authentic’ isn’t […]
Read more "It’s Authentic, Check The Label"During our second workshop, we were given a task to create a short video with some texts, which were from a haiku poem, and edit them using Adobe Premiere Pro. And I guess this is my results from the exercise. p.s. the haiku was created by yours truly (as well as all the footage used) & music […]
Read more "A Haiku – From Me To You"‘Should I cut this out or keep it? I mean, it’s kind of important, like it gives you a bit more detail? …(watches the edited preview a million times)… Actually, nah, I’ll just take it out. It just makes it longer.’ This is probably my most recurring thought/action every time I have to edit something. […]
Read more "The Edit"A comic about comics. Genius, I think. I mean, what better way to understand the art of comics than through a comic and this was well executed in ‘Blood in the Gutter’ which is an extract from ‘Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art’ by Scott McCloud. The reading creates focus on the importance of closure and […]
Read more "Read Between The Lines"Despite the gloomy weather during the day, this week’s workshop was filled with colour. And no, I’m not talking about rainbow lights filling the room. I’m talking about the Six Thinking Hats system used to provide feedback. But in our case, we had only used four: yellow (something positive), red (gut reaction), black (discernment) and […]
Read more "My Hat’s Off To You"