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Location, Location, Location

If you ever have a few hours to spare I completely recommend just wandering around the city. Melbourne has so many hidden treasures as I discovered on Tuesday when my boyfriend and I found ourselves at Flinders having already eaten,… Continue Reading →

The Scene of The Crime

Its only as I’m typing this up that I realise both the story pitches I mentioned in my last post involved (attempted) murder. Oh well! I chose to look at a location for the second one, involving a jogger in… Continue Reading →

Granpa, Can You Read Me A Story?

The Princess Bride is one of my all time favourite stories. Fencing, fighting, torture, revenge, giants, monsters, chases, escapes, true love, miracles… whats not to love? It was also the introduction to week eights lectorial as we talked about narrative. It… Continue Reading →

Silence

Have you ever listened to silence? No matter what you think, the answer is no. Silence does not exist, only different kinds of quiet. If you’ve ever listened to a ‘silent’ night, really focussed in, its actually extremely noisy. As… Continue Reading →

Team Spirit

Out of interest I have been looking into the role and necessary skills of a stunt performer and have come to realise just how connected each part of a cinematic team is. Each person involved in creating a tv show… Continue Reading →

Stop, Collaborate and Listen

Week six lectorials focus was on the skill of collaboration. As a media practitioner there is no role that exists in isolation. Making films, websites, advertisements, print media, all require teamwork and group input. Trying to do things by yourself… Continue Reading →

Don’t Anger The Robots

This weeks lectorial on the progression of technology and whether humans are driving it or being driven by it brings to mind a debate I’ve had many many times with my boyfriend, a computer software student, on the subject of… Continue Reading →

Institutions

I’d heard from classmates how difficult ‘institutions’ were to define so I was really hoping this lecture would clear things up for me. In some ways it did, in others… not so much. Once Brian went through some examples and… Continue Reading →

Bridging The Gap

This weeks workshop was the last day of the ‘conceptual’ stage of our project on Media Audiences. We’ve made mind maps, we’ve brainstormed, we’ve come up with our concept and we have a rough draft which we presented to the… Continue Reading →

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