Final Reflection
My first semester of Media 1 has come to an end. It has certainly been a busy semester full of growth. Before starting Uni this semester I had been out of any form of schooling for 4 years with the…
Serendipity + The Audio Essay
I have a habit of falling asleep listening to podcasts. And occasionally I’ll wake up listening to a podcast as well. This happened to me this morning. I fell asleep listening to the most recent episode of #Millenial (the hashtag…
Dear Future Self,
In my first post, I discussed what I wanted to get out of this course. I broke what I wanted into 3 broad parts 1) Communicate Craftily – specifically my writing skills 2)Surround Myself With “Why Not?” i.e. collaborate and…
MPAA + Audiences
Audiences, Institutions, Power. The MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America), the film rating board in the US represents all of these things. In high school I watched the documentary, This Film Is Not Yet Rated which explores the history of the…
Edward Snowden
Last night I went to Think Inc’s An Evening With Edward Snowden. Obviously, Snowden could not be there in person but arrived by controlling a screen and rolling out onto the stage. Not much of the content discussed was new…
Twitter As A Medium For Activism
The reading for Mediums goes into great length about the different affordances a medium can have. I wanted to explore Twitter and how Twitters affordances get used for activism. The reading gives an example of printing and how its affordances…
PB4: Interview at the ABC
Yesterday (MAH BDAY YASSS), my group headed to The ABC’s offices in Elsternwick to interview reporter, Kerri Ritchie. I feel the interview went really well. Kerri was very generous to us with time and how open she was to answering…
PB4: VOX POP
After the lecture yesterday, it was time for my group to do some Vox Pops. We organized some questions to ask and had our zoom mic. We struggled to print out our release forms – printing at RMIT is HARD…
Work Attachments
In the lectorial today, we were introduced to work attachments. A work attachment being 80 hours of supervised experience within the field of media by semester 6. This task is (seemingly) simple and 80 hours really isn’t much. I am…
Flashback to Week 1
In week 1 we read a couple passages by Cal Newport about Passion. In the Articles and the video Newport Discusses ‘The Passion Trap’ 1 as well as the idea that we are able to find passion in many career…
