In this week’s lectorial, we were dismissed early and ventured in groups to certain places around the city. My group and I were assigned to Bourke Street Mall and here we were asked to record different forms of media that we noticed. I suppose the point of this activity was to practice the art of […]
Read more "Shopping for Media"‘Follow your dreams,’ they said. ‘But be realistic,’ they also said. Are you a dreamer? Or are you a realist? Or are you both? Hold up — is that even possible? Based on one of our readings, ’The Danger of the Dream Job Delusion’ by Cal Newport, I learned that there is this delusion about […]
Read more "Passionate or Passion-not"How does one word hold such great power in impacting people’s lives? From Orientation alone, we’ve been advised to get to know each other since we’re all going to be together for the next couple of years. So we might as well be friends, right? I suppose this was reiterated again in our first week […]
Read more "Hello"Pt. III of my Lo-fi Media Self-Portrait for our Project Brief #1 50 WORDS To be honest, I don’t really know what idea of myself I was trying to convey in the following 50 words. I legitimately wrote this filled with so much sarcasm and this is the result of such thoughts. “One. It’s interesting […]
Read more "Project Brief #1 (Pt. III)"Pt. II of my Lo-fi Media Self-Portrait for our Project Brief #1 VIDEO The first piece of video is of me walking. I’m a person who walks a lot, and by that I mean, I used to walk to school. I’m also the type of walker who likes to walk at a slightly more than […]
Read more "Project Brief #1 (Pt. II)"For our first project brief, we were asked to collate 3 pieces of original audio, 3 pieces of original video, 6 photographs and 50 words of text, providing a brief description of what we were trying to convey about ourselves through each form. AUDIO For my first piece of original audio, it is the sound […]
Read more "Project Brief #1 (Pt. I)"Blogging. How the word sounds so familiar yet the experience of it is so unfamiliar I find somewhat amusing. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve had experience with other forms of blogging before. But WordPress blogging and actually writing about my life experiences is something new to me. So it came with such surprise to be […]
Read more "A Beginner’s Blog"Introductions aren’t always easy nor engaging, and this could be said about this week’s first lectorial for Media One 2016. However, all that depends on each individual present. As a person returning from a much needed 3 month break, I couldn’t help but find myself zoning out at times during the first class as introductory […]
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