Lectorial 1
In a previous blog post I shared my thoughts on ‘Hyper and Deep Attention’ which explored how modern day media has manipulated how people learn, in this post however I will focus on myself and what I want to gain from the course. Written in red is my annotations after the lectorial justifying what I wrote down.
Dear Future Self,
I want to be able to communicate better and become a better public speaker. I think the ability to communicate abstract ideas coherently is a skill I would love to gain. When I did Drama at school a big issue I had was scripting too much, I kind of hand fed the audience character, plot….rather than showing them or presenting my ideas in a more symbolic and interesting way. With this course I know I will face this issue again, so it would be great to be able to learn from past experiences and improve as the course progresses.
I want to ‘know’ how to make films. I do enjoy watching films and television, there’s something about all the different aspects of the art form that really appeals to me. The music, acting, setting, lighting, it’s a montage and collaboration of all these things that work together to not only entertain but create meaning.
I want to become more coherent in expressing my thoughts. This links into the top sentence of communicating better.
I want to improve at using technology, computers, cameras…….. Apart from garage band, windows movie maker and point and shoot cameras I haven’t really explored many media making technologies. I am quite excited for future semesters where we get to use all the different, professional equipment. On top of this excitement, I am also sure I need to improve, to be able to communicate ideas through technology, I need to know the technology.
I want to be able to understand people better through learning This is kind of a loaded one, I feel as though the more I learn the more I figure out things about the world and others. This week’s lectorial talks about learning and how it gets re-defined due to technology and time, so as this course progresses I hope to figure out a few more things about the world that I can use to influence my work.
I want to be better at Editing. I surprisingly love editing, it’s great to be able to have pieces of pre-existing art and mix them together to create something new. Certainly a fun thing to mess around with and it kind of reminds me of what DJ’s do with music.
Create a network of people in the industry. I heard this one being said and thought it was a very good goal.
I want to learn about career pathways. I still don’t know what I’m going to do after Uni, so this is a big one! I think as the course progresses I will start to gain more of an understanding.
Gain an understanding of audience. Audiences are tough! But they have a lot of control over what media gets made. Media makers create for audiences and for target demographics, so this research and understanding is priceless and something that will no doubt be tapped into as the course progresses.
Presentation skills. In my first tutorial I was nervous talking in front of my class, so this is something I really need to work on.
Media is Re-Learning (how, where and why we learn)
- Learning and the studio model:
- Learning and the discipline:
- Learning inside and outside the class
- Analogy, Practice, Repition, Mimicry, Failure and Metaphor
- The gift, iteration, presentation, feedback
- Learning and hierarchies
Quotes from ‘Selfie’ article
It is also, she believes, just another way to tell a story through social networking: “Instead of saying you’re going to work, a photo of you in your uniform does that.”
According to Dr Rutledge, we enjoy opportunities to experiment with different identities – and the selfie allows just that. “We all want to be able to ‘try’ on a new image and imagine how we would feel as that part of ourselves,” she explains.
I found these quite interesting in relation to self and how as individuals we mould our self-image. It’s also cool because it kind of justifies the selfie.