5 April, 2017

Media Lecture – 6

In this week’s lecture, a guest speaker came to gave us a speech about ‘How to be a Media Operator’. He gave us some notes of the requirements and possible challenges for PB 3. The first key word is ‘communication’, it is necessary for us to maintain communication with the participants at any time. Meanwhile, he gave us some other key phrases as well, such as location release, insurance and legals, performance release, safety and nightmare are the problems we may face.

Moreover, another point he mentioned is about ‘serendipity’, which is the effect by which one accidentally discovers something fortunate, especially while looking for something else entirely. It is a good instruction for me to think about some views or ideas in a new way. The different perspective may create a new style of shoot and thought.

Then, we had the break for a short time. After the break, Mr. Brian introduced PB 3 briefly and also gave us some past examples that made by the past students. The video I was impressed is the first one which made by a girl. The video she made is like a vlog and gave me some fresh ideas.

The last time of the lecture was watching the documentary about the Internet. In the documentary, Google, Amazon and other famous online websites were mentioned. The documentary focus on our searches and online browsing via different websites on the Internet and based on the information we searched, the results and revenant materials will be reveal by selecting the conditions that we are looking for. By comparing the documentary with the reading paper in this week which is about ‘privacy’, the paper focus more on parents monitoring their teens. Parents complain when teens demand privacy by asking their parents to stay out of their bedroom, to refrain from listening in on their phone conversations, and to let them socialize with their friends without being chaperoned. Teens do not want their parents to view their online profiles or look over their shoulder when they’re chatting with friends. In these two cases, social media has introduced a new dimension to the well-worn fights over private space and personal expression. Teens think they need ‘privacy’ especially in front of their parents, however, what I concluded is that it is difficult to live with privacy whatever in our daily life or on the Internet. Our profile, our hobbies, our interests, our blog, the content we are searching for are not privacy, although we adjust ‘privacy’ settings, they have already recorded on the Internet.