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The Remaking of Media

In week 4 we were assigned to focus on the reading of a blog post and a video by David Gauntlett, a UK author, where he introduces and explains his new book ‘Making Media Studies’, where he describes the current trends in today’s society regarding media. Gauntlett’s...

Premiere Thoughts

Being in the position of using a whole new program seems scary at first. However, as i was using premiere pro for the first time, i was really challenged to learn the skills and techniques in such a short period of space. As my computer played up, and prevented me...

Haiku

To get familiar with Premiere Pro, we were assigned with an exercise to produce a Haiku piece. We were to record short still shots, and upload them to make a 30 second clip, and share it with the rest of the media cohort. As our class didn’t have time to go out...

Blood in the Gutter

Reading Scott McCloud’s ‘Blood in the Gutter’, it was eye opening to how incredible and stimulating forms of content can come across through a comic, coming from someone who has never been a massive enthusiast of cartoons. Whenever I attempted to read comics, I simply...

Thinking Hats

In this week’s workshop, we reflected PB1, our creative self-portraits, a collaboration of photos, videos and sounds through Edward DeBono’s ‘6 thinking hats’ (But only four were used). A person would present their work, and some members of the class...

Identity

PHOTO ONE This photo describes me through my religion. You could say that i am proud to be Jewish, as my family is traditional, it is a big part of my identity, and shaped me to who i am today. This photo shows the ritual of the lighting of the candles, done...