PB1 | Michael Firus

Annotated Biography Mediums and Technologies – Source 4

Link: http://www.tandfonline.com.ezproxy.lib.rmit.edu.au/doi/abs/10.1080/00405000.2012.736191 or http://www.tandfonline.com.ezproxy.lib.rmit.edu.au/doi/abs/10.1080/00405000.2012.736191#aHR0cDovL3d3dy50YW5kZm9ubGluZS5jb20uZXpwcm94eS5saWIucm1pdC5lZHUuYXUvZG9pL3BkZi8xMC4xMDgwLzAwNDA1MDAwLjIwMTIuNzM2MTkxQEBAMA== Reference: Turhan , G.T, 2013. An assessment towards the acceptance of wearable technology to consumers in Turkey: the application to smart bra and t-shirt products. The Journal of The Textile Institute, Vol. 104, 1-6. This article explores the concept of wearable smart devices through a sociological context; namely the cultural acceptance…

Annotated Biography Mediums and Technologies – Source 3

Link: http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijdsn/2013/190813/ Reference: Castillejo, Martínez, López, Gregorio Rubio, P.C,J.F.M,L.L,G.R, 2012. An Internet of Things Approach for Managing Smart Services Provided by Wearable Devices. International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks Volume 2013 (2013), 190813, pp 1-9. This article relates the idea of smart wearable devices to the concept of the “Internet of things” – the interconnected…

Annotated Biography Mediums and Technologies – Source 2

Link: http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-36071-8_28 Reference: Nayak, Swamy, Ramaswamy, D.N, M.V.S, S.R, 2010. Supporting Location Information Privacy in Mobile Devices. 1st ed. 9th International Conference, ICDCIT 2013, Bhubaneswar, India,: Springer Berlin Heidelberg. pp 361-372 This article explores the growing issue of manipulation that may take place in a company’s aim to obtain information about a user of a…

Annotated Biography Mediums and Technologies – Source 1

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org.ezproxy.lib.rmit.edu.au/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=7387859 Reference: Mertz, L.M, 2016. Are Wearables Safe?: We Carry Our Smart Devices with Us Everywhere – Even to Bed – But Have We Been Sleeping with the Enemy, or are Cautionary Tales Overinflated?. 1st ed. -: IEEE Pulse, Vol.7(1), pp.39-43 This article explores the question of whether wearable smart devices can be considered safe,…

Class Team Work

One has to love a good stock image… When PB4 was announced as a team-focused exercise, a fair amount of the lecture theatre either groaned or laughed nervously. However, after this week’s practical, I can honestly say that their fears were misguided. A quick scan of the room reveals a set of content groups humming…

PB3 Peer Feedback

Grace: Grace, your interview was well shot and the use of effects was notable; specifically, the parallel action achieved with the many shots arranged in one frame technique. The unusual angles you used also added visual interest to your shots. The story of your interviewee was presented coherently and in a way that was enjoyable…

EXERCISE – NARRATIVE STRUCTURE IN PB3

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? The controlling idea in my portrait is the fact that vibrancy – to a normal or even greater than normal amount – is achieved within disability. …

Teamwork: The Only Way To Do

“There’s a level of sophistication of filmmaking that’s mind-boggling. Anything you need for your movie, there’s an establishment that can make it happen really fast” – Ang Lee Not many worthwhile things happen without teamwork. This is true for any human endeavor in any discipline. Need to move…

Teamwork: Universally Imperative

We live in a world of collaboration. Moreover, this characteristic is by no means specific to this age. The ability to work in a team is fundamental; as social creatures, it is hardwired into our nature to be part of a team. In fact, I can bet with absolute certainty that you wouldn’t even be…

Us as characters:

In this course, we have been looking at the term ‘character’ as a fictional entity that we can construct in a book or film script. Maybe not all of us want to become writers, but we all create or have a say in creating characters of some kind. If nothing else, then it can…