‘You can do better than that.’ So this week’s lecture began with a pep talk on blogging. More. It was inspiring yet just a little bit galling. Not going to lie, my blogging skills can definitely be improved, I have no arguments there. But this is not my only subject, and most definitely not my […]
Read more "Try Harder"For this week’s workshop, we were asked to answer the following questions in relation to our film portrait. So read below for my responses. 1. What is the ‘controlling idea’ (Robert McKee) of your portrait? In other words, what is the most interesting thing about your participant/interviewee that you want to communicate? Considering she is […]
Read more "Plan It Out"Or rather, how we are surviving at RMIT. Our exercise for this week’s workshop was to conduct interviews using a Sony MC50 video camera. In terms of any problems we had, I don’t think that we had any major problems during filming, other than finding a really quiet place to film. We did find a […]
Read more "How To Survive Uni"Do I remember what? Honestly, week 5 has just been a complete blur to me. Partly because of the fact that week 4 was literally split in half due to mid-semester break, which technically wasn’t really mid-semester because there’s 14 weeks this semester and we had a break in week 4 instead of week 7, […]
Read more "Do You Remember?"One of our readings for the week is ‘A Beginner’s Guide To Textual Analysis’ by Alan McKee, which is pretty much an introduction to textual analysis. First, I’d like to begin by saying that through out the entire time I was reading this text, I just kept having flashback moments of my time in my […]
Read more "Tell Me What You See"It’s audition time. And no I don’t mean, auditioning for a show or film. I’m talking about Adobe Audition. We were given a brief tutorial on the basics of using Audition in order to help us edit our audio from our audio recording exercise (and click here to read about my post on that) in […]
Read more "Show Me How"This week’s lectorial was divided into three parts. We began with a lecture on Analysing Media Texts where we were given an introduction into textual analysis. All this just reminded me of every movie that we watched in my high school Media classes and how we analysed a plethora of scenes that it took me […]
Read more "All Rounder"In this week’s workshop, we conducted a recording exercise in pairs using a Zoom H2N Audio Recorder. We conducted an informal interview at the basketball courts to get a feel of the environment we were in. Though you could hear other sounds in the background, such as cars driving by, people talking, basketballs bouncing and […]
Read more "Coffee Chats"If there was anything that stood out to me in this week’s lecture on sound, it would have to be the concept of ‘hearing vs listening’. Hearing is involuntary, we can’t decide what sounds we hear (with the exception of wearing earphones and listening to music), because even if you’re driving on an empty road […]
Read more "But Listen To Me Though"In our readings for the week, we were asked to read ‘Perspective’ from Speech, Music and Sound and ‘Sound’ from Making Media: Foundations of Sound and Image Production. In ‘Perspective’, the extract discusses perspective, social distance and immersion in relation to sound. In brief terms, perspective is the process of placing elements in order. And […]
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