TELEVISION VIEWING HABITS REFLECTION After keeping a time use diary from Weeks 6 to 12 of the Television Cultures course and attempting to monitor my TV viewing habits, the main takeaway I had was that – well, I don’t really… Continue Reading
A PHENOMENON OF COMPLEX TV Over the past two decades or so, a rising popularity of complex narrative in the television landscape has emerged to both critical and popular acclaim (Mittel, 2006). Replacing the typical forms of episodic storytelling, these… Continue Reading
GIRLS AND FEMINIST TELEVISION It seems like we are currently in amidst of a Golden Age of feminist television. With a variety of female focused shows emerging in the past few years, it looks as if the traditionally male-dominated television… Continue Reading
Research question: How do you capture the atmosphere of a place? Statement: For my investigation, I wanted to explore the connection between space and mood, specifically how places (or non-places) can have different atmospheres. I was inspired by extracts from… Continue Reading
Here’s the final version of the Night exercise. Night: Final from Jessica Xiao on Vimeo.
It seems like rather than working towards one final product, I’ve leaned more towards creating a series of smaller experimental style exercises. This one explores my local main street at night, trying to capture some of the soft, romanticized atmosphere… Continue Reading
This was a quick exercise as ordered by Paul to re-edit the Home shots to incorporate voiceovers. Not sure if I like this, but the voiceover concept is definitely intriguing to me now. Home Version 2 from Jessica Xiao on… Continue Reading
During this semester in Film 3, I feel like I’ve gathered a bunch of helpful tips for editing. It became evident while I was going through these motions with my Home video that these lead to much more efficient and… Continue Reading
From Paul’s mini lecture on editing this morning, here are the three functions I learnt that I think will be really useful for future editing: 1) Expand all tracks (…) Not technically a keyboard shortcut but still useful. Instead of… Continue Reading
This is what I came up with for the colour grade exercise using the three way colour corrector: 1) Colour scheme: green // Lighting: outdoor, natural For the first test, I purely played around with the colour wheels for the… Continue Reading