Rocked up to class and learnt a lot about sugar. Sugar, you ask? Yes, sugar. The class had a practical exercise about the thing called “sugar”. Exploration of the word sugar was probed… What sugar is, what does it do, how does it effect us – health wise. Although it was such an everyday food item, we were asked to expand on the word sugar. For example, what does it mean, what can it do, what are the limitations, what are the ideas behind sugar, where does sugar come from?
What did I learn in the studio today?
I learnt that I was totally wrong about this studio and what it’s about. I rocked up to the studio early in the morning and expected the studio setting to be one of a film studio. How silly of me. But then again, I came from a technical background. I have two previous qualifications in film and television production, and when I saw studio – not practical or tutorial – that looked like a classroom, I immediately thought of a film studio.
Apparently, I will be paired up and I will be creating 100 video clips of something POV in this course of study. This course is a 24 credit point course. How scary.
So, here we are.
I passed my first semester of my degree program. Amazing isn’t it? How time passed so quickly? Last semester, I was enrolled as a second year, second semester RMIT University student. This semester, I’m ‘enrolled’ as a third year, first semester RMIT University student. If that’s not an accomplishment, I don’t know what is. I’ve studied film and television production for the past two years, so I guess it’s quite refreshing to learn about the theory part of media instead of learning of the practical part.
Hurrah to me! I’ve only got less than a year till I graduate from my Bachelor of Communications (Media) program. I’ve only needed to study 1.5 years since I’ve got my credits transferred from my past film and television production qualifications!!
INTEGRATED MEDIA 2 eh? More madness online? And more group work? Oh, how so? Through collaborations, collaborations, collaborations.
I attended my first lecture for this course last week. Seth pretty much read from his blog, giving all the students a basic understanding of what is to come in the months ahead as well as examples from past students work from last year. Outlining the course guide during the tutorials, my tutor Patrick gave me a “panic attack” when I realised how much work there is to be done in the next few months or so. Great joy!
There’s nothing else better than saying a massive welcome back from the mid-year break than to freak out students with the amount of work to be achieved. Well done folks, you’ve surely did make me go into panic mode in the first week of the second semester of my Uni life.
I’m feeling neutral about this Integrated Media 2 course, there’s group work involve.
Here’s hoping for a smooth road ahead!!
Studies in Documentary Film
Interactive documentary is platform that allows the user to partake in an active role in participating as entertainment, allowing the user to take control of the interactive documentary itself through the means of an act of engagement. The authors claim interactive documentaries that “the relations of interdependence of i-docs that they create between the user and the reality that they portray” (p. 131) is new.
The types of interactive documentary that they suggest currently exist includes the conversational mode, the hypertext mode, the participative mode and the experiential mode. The conversational mode makes use of digital 3D graphics in video games highlighting that the technology needs the user to participate. The hypertext mode gives capability to the participant in the interactive documentary in selecting the various options so to link the user to probe videos. The participative mode needs the user to participate in order for the interactive documentary to compile and evolve. The experiential mode challenges not only the users senses but also their perception of the world when they are actively involve in the interactive documentary.
The conversational mode, the hypertext mode, the participative mode and the experiential mode do matter interactive documentary makers in regards to their target audience, the suggested different modes allows the users to be selective. The modes have contrasting yet similar functions. The makers generate a range of options during the production of the interactive documentary for the users to participate in, yet they presumed are to be given a choice when they are selective of the decision that they make as they engage in the interactive documentary such as video games or an art gallery digital installation.
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Sometimes… I wished Metro knew that I lived halfway to Phillip Island. Metro, please just fix all these signalling problems.