It’s week 12 and that means my final assessments will be due really soon. Thus, I’ll be sharing with you one of them, which is from a subject called Cinema Studies. Basically, we have to choose a movie clip from the choices given, which are all from…
This week’s workshop started with a discussion on this week’s reading (part 2), as usual. Jeremy asked what our thoughts were, although unfortunately most of the class didn’t actually did the reading (I DID THOUGH!). So, having done it, I shared a little bit about my thoughts….
Is our attention being stolen by the ads we encounter all the time? Has it become a part of our everyday life? Are we living an era where there’s no line between what’s private and what’s commercial? This week’s reading by Tim Wu talks about attention….
It’s the weekend! (well kinda over now but) That calls for something more light-hearted, aye? In this post, I’ll be sharing the assessment that I had just finished for my photojournalism course, which I’m currently enrolled in as an elective. First of all, for this assessment, we’re…
We started the workshop discussing this week’s reading from Theo van Leeuwen. The reading focuses on sound’s perspective and social distance. Perspective Figure: most important sound/ focus of attention Ground: less prominent sound, listener’s social world, setting context Field: most distant sound, provides spatial volume,…
This week’s lecture was presented by a guest lecturer, Kyla Brettle. As our project is approaching ever so closely, she discussed on the topic “audio”. Kyla started off stating that 90% of media maker would only focus on visual media like TV and film, and only a…
A wonderful day everyone! So, these days I’ve been into this language learning website (also an app), which many of you may have heard or try, Memrise. Although I just found out literally a few minutes ago that it also offers a lot of other categories, from maths&science to…
We started the week’s workshop with some discussion from this week’s reading, which is Danah Boyd’s “Did Media Literacy Backfires?” which is about unreliable resources on the internet. We talked about some examples, and Tristan came up with the story of this woman who fake having…
As the semester’s coming to an end (fireworks), it means that we need to get working on our final project a.k.a PB 4. Since it is going to be a team project, one of the two topics for our lectorial this week was “teamwork”, which…
The final product of the interview is finally here! There were some unexpected turns and hardships but I am so glad I managed to get it done. Anyhow, I did another interview with a really lovely person, that is my friend, Priscilla. By the way,…
