Here is my attempt of a Panorama shot down at the beach. Very similar to photographs from an artist named Kevin Duncan, check him out here.
Love the Panoramic shot!
Month: July 2014
Wk 2 Lecture
This weeks lecture had a interesting philosophical deconstruction of stories and uses of media. The main idea is that a story only has a beginning, middle and end because the technology of the particular media is confining it.
The Book was the main example: a book has pages in it with writing on these pages that tells a story, because of the technology (ink on paper) the book must have a first page and a last page, this means that the story written on the pages must have a beginning and an end.
This, however, is not the case for the internet as a technology. In this weeks lecture we were encouraged to disregard our preconcieved ideas of what something is and understand that those boundaries are not to do with the media, but the technologies used to convey that media.
Quote of the day: “Materiality of the technology we use does matter” – Adrian Miles
01.1 Blogs in Media Education
The first reading of the semester seems to be an attempt to prove why it is necessary in this day and age to use blogging as a form of education. There are some very good points to this argument, not least of which is the fact that the outside world is moving onto this new age of the internet whether the education world is or not. I think that the idea of going through this (educational blogging) in order to get us into a good space for future employment, particularly in the media industry, definitely makes sense.
Some points show that it will be easier for teachers to keep track of whether their students are doing the readings or not as they are expected to blog about them. This first blog seems to be going in a vicious cycle, i’m reading the reading so I can write a blog about its topic, and the topic is that it is useful to blog about readings to show teachers that you have done the reading . . . which is about blogging . . .
Another element I’ll put up to discussion is the idea of networking between each others blogs during our study and how public our work is in this new style of assessment. There is a valid point in the reading which states we are aloud to look at each others blogs so we can see where we are with the rest of the students. The hypothesis was made that someone who isn’t putting out as much work might see a higher standard of work from another student and therefore try and better themselves on what they’ve seen. I would think that, apart from the obvious fact that there might be a few people that just copy the majority of what they see from others, the entirety of students, if cross referencing, would create a completely unwavering level of marks across all students. Personally, I would prefer a more private method of marking; purely in the the sense that a student would typically want to stand out from the crowd. Nevertheless here is my blog on the first reading; all scavengers please enjoy.
Miles, Adrian. “Blogs in Media education: a Beginning.” Australian Screen Ed.41 (2006): 66-9
Anne Hull
For anyone interested in journalism I would suggest putting Anne Hull on your radar. I just finished listening to a talk she gave on ‘reporting place’. She believes in a technique I would tend to call submersion. She suggests that in order to create the atmosphere and enrich the story you have to go out and put yourself in the environment your talking about and often the shoes of the people you are reporting. Often these places aren’t the most comfortable but by hearing, seeing, tasting, smelling and feeling you are able to get a lot closer to the story you are trying to report on. A very interesting argument.
Anne Hull is a journalist for the Washington Post.
In the Beginning
I’m currently studying first year media at RMIT University. As a part of my course in networked media I will be keeping a blog of all the concepts discussed in this course. My main influences for studying this course is in an attempt to join the the film and TV industry so I will also be blogging about anything I find particularly interested in that field, although will not confine myself just to that. Stay tuned.