Assignment 2 – Reflection
How does your small-scale work respond to your characteristics of online screen making?
My small- scale work combining videos and photos around the world, I said around the world is because some of our friends are in other place and country, so even I didn’t go to that country, I can also know what their daily life in there digitally. I think this remains me the characteristic of using internet sharing with others.
When I started collecting my friends’ stories, I realized that I am not making a whole, I am making parts. From the reading “Network Literacy: The New Path to knowledge” by Mails, Adrian, the literature of network is on the internet everything is individual, but we can link it together, the part remains part. I think our work defiantly respond the modularity of new media. Each of the stories has it own narrative arch. However, when I add those little pieces together, our project create the connection between those little pieces, a nonlinear story. For online screen making, we don’t need to online make it meaningful, audiences will interactive what they think work or not, we can collect every single information that we think can add to our project. It seems to me that online screen media has more freedom than other media. As our project topic “Everything ”, to be honest, this topic already talks about our work, we collect everything that in our friends’ story.
To see the whole project, we link each story together, it becomes a big story of people’s daily life which relates to our first project Tag, we attach labels “story”, “daily” “life”. Hence, I think our project respond to the characteristic of nonlinear, modularity and tag.
What did you learn about online screen characteristics and platforms through conducting your test?
Through the process of doing the project, I guess I don’t need to know what I want to get for the final piece of my work, I just continue adding stuff that I think is useful for my project. The project is more about searching stories rather than making stories. All the Instagram story will disappear by the next day, however, we use media to keep those moment and make it more globally, those piece doesn’t need to exist their anymore. Thus, to my mind, this is what internet returns to us, the variability of media.
How does this making expand upon what you learnt through your development posts?
In my development post, when I keep watching and thinking other people’s project, several questions come out, how does online media helps our life more convenience and comparing to other media, what does online media do for us?
Fiction and non- Fiction projects, especially _6/4 project, it talks me as a media practitioner, online media is not saying whatever you want, it is more about seeing one thing from the different perspective, you can give the evidence of your thought. Online screen media doesn’t also give us the freedom of doing whatever we want to make, but also the most important, sharing with other. It connects the people around the world.
What questions remain for you in terms of thinking about and making online screen works?
After finish the second assignment, to my mind, I want to learn more about the skill of making online screen project. I get the idea of what is online media and what can online media do for me, for the next step I want to learn how can I make an online screen work.
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