Today’s Media One lecture will be down a member, that member being me. My friends from Adelaide have flown to Melbourne to visit me for the weekend and I have to make the trip with them to drop them off at the airport. Their plane leaves at 1520 hours (like my aviation lingo?), with their […]
Read more "blog #16: FOMO"It’s hard to think that in the not to distant past, there was no such thing as the Internet. Computers, mobile phones, tablets – everything these days is just another platform to get in touch with people via the world wide web. Today, however, the Internet and I had a hiccup in our long and […]
Read more "blog #15: pain in my web"Today’s tutorial was purely focused on our Brief 1, our self-portraits. Today we spoke on each individual table talking about our own media artefacts. We were asked to put on 1 of 4 different hats as we passed judgement, criticism and positivity on everyone’s work. The hat feedback system, as founded by De Bono, is […]
Read more "blog #14: does this hat suit me?"For my text for Brief 1, I’ve chosen to just use one word. My word is: FATE In 2014 I was involved in a serious car accident as I drove to visit my parents at their place of work in the Barossa Valley region about an hour drive from the city of Adelaide. I started […]
Read more "blog #13: TEXT"Here are my videos for Brief 1: ^ this video is of me exercising, I love to exercise as it helps to clear my mind when I’m stressed or need a break. ^ for my final video, I went underneath a bridge and took a video of some graffiti. Growing up in a tough neighbourhood, […]
Read more "blog #12: WATCH"I’ve always been interested in reality TV, and have checked out nearly every version of the X Factor across the globe. Having watched parts of last year’s X Factor in New Zealand I was excited to hear there was going to be a shake-up on the judging panel… because everybody knows that the best part about […]
Read more "blog #9: dread factor NZ"Today’s lecture was a lot of fun, yet extremely informative! We had a chat from Anne Lennox, an expert on copyright management at the university library! The talk was all about copyrighting which is key, especially in my elective course of Music in Popular Culture as I really have to be careful with what I record […]
Read more "blog #8: roll call"Today’s task was to head out after our lecture and list all of our encounters with mediated interactions and communications by listing and recording these aforementioned pieces of media. We were challenged to look around Swanston Street through to Bourke Street. Being new to the area, I was able to really see and learn more about […]
Read more "blog #3: medi-ahhh it’s everywhere!"