This studio forms an assignment from weekly media making exercises that are started in class and finished outside of class, along with weekly blog reflections.

ASSIGNMENT #1: Weekly exercises and reflection (15%) – Due Friday 11.59pm, 9 August (Week 3)

Assignment 1 – 15% of your overall mark

In this assignment you will use in-class exercises to begin thinking about how media might be used to give a more active ‘lived-in’ sense of the body.

Submitting your Assignment

Please write a post that contains the requirements listed below, and hyperlinks to each weekly post. Then past the URL for this post into the ‘Website URL’ field in Submission Section.

You must submit your assignment through Canvas by the due date via the submission within the assessment.

Assignment 1

You will submit 1 blog post that contains:

1. Development (250 word minimum): A short discussion/description/synopsis of the work you aimed to create for each of the weekly exercises in weeks 1, 2 and 3.
2. 3 short media works: You will embed into this post the 3 short media works you made in weeks 1 – 3 in response to the class exercises.
3. Reflection (350 word minimum): You will write a short reflection that considers all of the following questions. It should make reference to (and correctly cite) at least 2 ideas from the weekly readings.
   1. What changed between your initial ideas to respond to the class exercises and the media works you ended up making?
   2. How did you make use of the affordances of the different kinds of media to try to highlight or heighten the different experiences of the senses?
   3. What is one thing that worked well about each of your media works? What is one thing that didn’t work quite so well about each of your media works?
   4. How are your ideas about the enacted body developing as a result of making these works?
4. Links to weekly blog posts: You will include the hyperlinks for each of your three weekly blog posts.