Week 3’s 8:30am tutorial was the perfect combination of theory and practical work. I find it incredibly satisfying to learn something new and then be able to put it into practise immediately. However with my early wake-up call, I did… Continue Reading →

‘Film 3’ gives away little idea of its content by its title. However, two weeks in I’m beginning to understand exactly what its all about and its everything I’d hoped for when first applying for an RMIT Media and Communications… Continue Reading →

Upon attending my first 8:30am Friday class, I was eager to have a three hour session in which we could really get some experience working with the equipment. For the class exercise we had to capture an action with three… Continue Reading →

Quinten Tarantino and Tim Burton are household names and are renowned for their unique film styles. Both have recognisable traits that can be spotted within minutes of viewing their work and define them as directors. Tarantino for instance, is easily… Continue Reading →

In this course I’ve learned a great deal about media ideology from the lectorials. This semester I learnt most about remix as it was covered in a lectorial and was also the focus of my group project. I found that… Continue Reading →

This being my final post for the semester I have curated a selection of five of my posts from this blog. Some of them I have chosen because they were significant moments for me in the course where I felt… Continue Reading →

In this week’s Media 1 class we set out to use the RMIT cameras in preparation for our next project. The task was simple enough, we had to shoot two people meeting, acknowledging one another and then moving on. One… Continue Reading →

This focus of this week’s lectorial was narrative. The significance of humans beings being able to create narrative was pointed out to us as we were told that stories are what separate us from other species as we are the… Continue Reading →

Liam Ward (a staff member in the Media program running a studio on ‘The Art of Persuasion: politics and poetics in documentary’) was one of this week’s lectorial guests. Ward was particularly fascinating to me as he explained the power… Continue Reading →

This week’s lectorial was quite philosophical in nature and was oriented around the question: what is ‘media’? The reading relating to this, William Merrin’s article ’Studying Me-dia: the Problem of Method in a Post-Broadcast Age’, has a specific argument about… Continue Reading →