Looking at my notes from the lectorial the first line reads “There is no such thing as an original idea”. The ideas in the link sent out clearly outlines the idea of the remix: It is a fascinating concept that we can take something old, make our mark and...
I have been thinking about what was said in the lectorial this week about marriage as a social institution. It is interesting that there are so many traditions and ideologies associated with marriage and it is interesting to consider that these traditions are still...
The lectorial explored relationships between audiences and cultural institutions. In Popular Culture in Everyday Life we explored the idea of commodification. This is when social values such as working hard at job, respectful to parents, which are abstract values,...
We now have a clear direction and now for the hard part, actually making it! We have created a project timeline and we have decided that our Project Brief 4 will consist of a website with blog posts about the story we have fabricated in regards to Izzy Varis, a...
I am very interested in the relationship between the audience and cultural industries. We have conducted research into the ways in which media is accessed and we have found that the younger generations are accessing media content online and on social media....
What is the point in producing something, just for it to sit on the shelf? You must know who your audience is and then market it! I have prepared many funding applications for government funding bodies and there is always a section on audience. Why is this, you might...
