The Princess Bride is one of my all time favourite stories. Fencing, fighting, torture, revenge, giants, monsters, chases, escapes, true love, miracles… whats not to love? It was also the introduction to week eights lectorial as we talked about narrative. It… Continue Reading →
Week six lectorials focus was on the skill of collaboration. As a media practitioner there is no role that exists in isolation. Making films, websites, advertisements, print media, all require teamwork and group input. Trying to do things by yourself… Continue Reading →
Did you know every face we see in our dreams is one we’ve seen before? Our brains are incapable of creating a new face while were dreaming so it uses the faces of our friends, people we’ve seen on tv,… Continue Reading →
I’d heard from classmates how difficult ‘institutions’ were to define so I was really hoping this lecture would clear things up for me. In some ways it did, in others… not so much. Once Brian went through some examples and… Continue Reading →
The last week or so has been a trial for me as I try to learn how to edit footage in iMovie in the lead up to Project Brief 2. Technically my skills are still basic but I’m learning. What… Continue Reading →
It seems simple enough, doesn’t it? Respect those you’re working with, be conscientious and kind. Well anyone whose worked in the service industry can tell you that its not always (ever) that way. I can’t remember all the times I’ve… Continue Reading →
I have received the same lesson twice in as many weeks. Tuesday in our media lectorial we were asked to sit in silence for half a minute and listen, tune into all the sounds that we normally don’t notice, the… Continue Reading →
Today we were launched on an unsuspecting city on the hunt for Rupert Murdoch. Well, actually we were to look out for ‘mediated information’, and he definitely would have been a good source. My group tackled Melbourne Central, where the… Continue Reading →
If someone could supply me with some tracks for my train of thought that’d be great, thanks. N. Katherine Hayles has opened my eyes to the proper definition for what I considered to be my own inability to concentrate; Hyper… Continue Reading →
Our first media lectorial we were asked to write a list of ten things we wanted to learn/get/improve on by the end of this course. 1. Know what career I want At the moment I have grand ideas about pursuing… Continue Reading →
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