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Initiative 12 | How can I do better

I believe I can do better if I watch more tutorials about how to editing and mixing music, including using Final cut, Premier, and Audition on Lynda.com, it can definitely shorten my time in making a project next time. And read more, so that I can have a better understanding and faster reading ability next…

R12|Learning reflection

The most valuable thing that I have earned from this semester is that my skills or techniques and all the practices that I had experienced. From the “technical skills”line, I believe I have done a pretty good job and I can do even better in the future with a rate like this. In detail, I…

A12|Reflection on Rough Cut

Reflection on Rough Cut It was said that our group’s work is interesting and wouldn’t have a big problem. And the only problem we have for now is that we still have not have a really clear angle. So it was suggested that to make a decision of defining an angle and then decide other…

Initiative 11|Is television no longer popular?

Thanks to Dr Ramon Lobato (School of Media and Communication, RMIT) for his insightful guest lecture today on recent changes in the television industry with a special focus on Netflix. I can still think of in old days when sitting on couch every night watching television with family every night. But that was old days,…

A11|A Day of Samantha

This audio is an interview of Samantha describing her one day of using media with narrator about research of the portion of people using media. It’s included environment background soundtrack, sound effects of recording normal sound of media.

R11|Can advertisement affects us?

Tim Wu, ‘Introduction’ + ‘Epilogue’ to The Attention Merchants Can advertisement really affects us? Well, if you think they cannot affect us because we are not paying attention to them. Then you’re wrong. According to Dr. Robert Heath, PhD in both psychology and advertising, in his book Seducing the subconscious: the psychology of emotional influence in…

A10|Reflection on workshop

This week’s workshop is about illustrating ideas to Jeremy, which is our teacher. And he told me that I can make it like an advertisement. But in the case of smoking and media, I cannot really make it like an ad. But what I can do is make it like an ad with using a…

Reflection of PB4

I believe making an audio is much difficult than making a video. Because I can use images to present what I want to present to the audiences, it can still look good even though the topic may not have a logical sense or implicit meaning. But in audio, I have to keep it interesting and…

Initiate 10|Ideas in audio sound

This week’s letorial was a guest presentation on writing in sound by Kyla Brettle, radio feature maker and lecturer in media production at RMIT. And these are some features that I have noticed in the audio: 1) There is rarely “narrator”, even if there is, it was presented with a way of interview. 2) It…

R10|The beauty of sound

Leeuwen, T 1968, “Perspective”, The Act, viewed on 30 May, <https://equella.rmit.edu.au/rmit/file/2cb13c87-1838-f876-8fe3-678464760158/1/31259008897675.pdf> Reflection on “Perspective” Sound has its similarities as cinema. It also has its overlap, foreground, middle ground, background. And sound has the function of serving people’s perception with different layers. And also it plays a major part in arising emotion and to connect with audiences. I believe,…