The Rest | Michael Firus

Picture = 1000 words ∴ 4 seconds of 25fps video = 100,000 words.

Print Media vs Audio/Visuals

Physical Print is a medium which I am aiming to become more acquainted with, though modesty forbids I have some competency now. Ever since my stint as editor of my high-school magazine SCOBE, I have grown to like the idea of two-dimensional creation. Front and back cover (laid flat) of SCOBE. (Cover design by me)…

360 degree Video: Multilinear Narrative?

The premise of 360-degree video is thus: multiple cameras are arranged around a single point with different points of view. Collectively, these cameras capture every angle around their position simultaneously. These views are then stitched together with specialized software to form a single panoramic spherical video. (click and drag on the video) This footage is…

Media Audit: The Train

Unless it’s your very first time, you probably spend the majority of our commute glued to that kaleidoscope of information: the mobile handset. But if one’s newsfeed was hypothetically all caught up on, maybe one would start to notice the multitude of other mediated information sources around and outside the carriage: All station signs along…

Media Audit: Oakleigh Train Station

Every university day, I find myself in this little corner of the universe. It can be a place of frustration, but sometimes this negativity can be transformed into constructive reflection. Que the Media Audit: Advertising posters Directional signs and upcoming train display. (shutter speed causes deleterious effects to LED displays) LCD Display Last-minute…

Media Audit: Bus stop No.1

Usually, about twice a week I take the bus to the train station. Now and then, the stunning efficiency of Melbourne’s bus network gives me time to contemplate the many sources of mediated information that a scattered all around: Timetable: humorous in its attempt at advice Braille: Tactile mediation Phone number Infographic …

Textual Analysis: History, Wider Context and Importance

Textual analysis is something that is done to some extent constantly and everywhere. Alongside humanity’s development of written language, the need for mutual understanding between the communicator and the communicant grew. At least this was how it most likely was early on. As the idea of culture developed and people began to formulate more and…

Roosters and Red Tape

I distinctly remember the first time I decided to do something with a camera that went past the “play with” mentality. Coming from a photographic background, my Dad felt it necessary, sometime after my 9th birthday, for me to have a camera. It was at that time that I decided to make a film. The…

Sounds of the Environment

When you think of a particular place, what is evoked? For instance, if I told you to bring to mind your High-school library… what would you recall? For me, it was the distracting noise that the door made whenever someone opened it. It sounded like someone was scraping carpet with a hairbrush. But I was…

Adaptation.

I think most year 11 media students have heard of this film. Only because it featured prominently in the screenwriting section of the curriculum textbook. This was my only experience with the film before the screening, and I must say, despite the trendiness of bad-mouthing Nicolas Cage as an ‘over-actor’, I found the film quite…

Experimental Film

Experimental film is a rather difficult area of cinema to define. These, however, are its general characteristics: Experimental films are deliberately nonconformist and usually independent of the commercial elements of film-making. Usually instead of a story in a conventional sense, sentiment, mood, or viewpoint are used to construct meaning. Some examples: Ballet Mécanique (1923–24): Ballet…