WEEK 8

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When you publish something on the internet, you are basically handing it over to the public.
Personally, all the things i post on social network sites, I think I own them to an extent. They're pictures/videos of me so I think they're mine, but by posting them on the internet I am giving other people the right to look at them. Unless you have copyright on a creation, anyone has the right to take it off the internet. If you didn't want someone to take it or view it, you know not to post it on the internet to begin with.

Social Networking sites give you the choice whether you want to make your pages public or private. If you make it private then only the people you allow can see the content that you post. So the pictures/videos etc you post can only be seen by select few people, unless you decide otherwise (which I think is very risky).

Week 5

Culture Jamming

The following is a definition of culture jamming found on:

http://depts.washington.edu/ccce/polcommcampaigns/CultureJamming.htm

Culture jamming is a form of political communication that has emerged due to the commercial isolation of public life. People who practice culture jamming argue that culture, politics and social values have been bent by saturated commercial environments, such as corporate logos on sports facilities all the way to television content designed soley to deliver targeted audiences to producers and sponsors. Many public issues and social voices are pushed to the margins of society by market values and commercial comminication, making it difficult to get the attention of those living in the "walled gardens" of consumerism. Culture jamming presents a variety of interesting communication strategies that play with the branded images and icons of consumer culture to make consumers aware of surrounding problems and diverse cultural experiences that warrant their attention.

Most culture jams are simply aimed at exposing questionable political assumptions behind commercial culture so that people can momentarily consider the branded environment in which they live. Culture jams re-figure logos, fashion statements, and product images to challenge the idea of "what's cool", along with assumptions about the personal freedoms of consumption. Some of these communiques create a sense of transparency about a product or company by revealing environmental damagers or the social experiences of workers that are left out of the advertising fantasies. The logic of culture jamming is to convert easily identifiable images into larger questions about such matters as corporate responsibility, the "true" environmental and human costs of consumption, or the private corporate uses of the "public" airwaves.









The task for week 5 after studying culture jams was to create our own.
I made a group with Nina and after much thought and debate we decided to make up a story about sweatshop activity taking place on the Gold Coast. We went out to the industrial estate in Biggera Waters and took photos of a run down factory.
We also created a Facebook group and managed to get more than 50 people to join in the short space of time we had for this assignment.

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=159443990736948

We interviewed a "worker" of the sweatshop and created this video that follows:







"Insert Video Here"

Examples of Culture Jamming

Big Brother Australia 2004 Merlin's Eviction



Jairah MySpace Video

Week 4 Tutorial

1.Where and when did usable online video start? (provide some refs. and an example if possible)

Youtube was introduced in 2005 which was when online video took off.
The first video ever uploaded was the following:



http://mashable.com/2010/04/23/first-video-youtube/

2.In the lecture we heard about technological innovations that were used by the studios to lure audiences. (mostly to combat the popularity of TV)
What recent innovations are being used to lure us in the movies?
What are they luring us from?

Well recently they've brought out 3D movies.
They've had 3D for a while though only recently are producers of movies making them more frequently because of technology improvements.
They are also advertising the movies in cinemas and try to persuade audiences to go see them at cinemas or buy them on DVD rather than downloading them free off he internet.

3.Are short films still being made? Why? Who pays for them to be made?


Short films are most definitely still being made.
If not just as much, than more.
Many companies are using short films as advertisement campaigns.
Students make short films for study and many people compete in short film competitions.
A lot of short films aren't funded and they are just paid for by the director.
This is sometimes why they're short, to get a message across but to also save money.

4.The term viral is thrown about adhoc but what does it mean in film/movie arena? Give some examples.

A viral video is one that becomes popular through the process of internet sharing.




5. Online video distribution isn't limited to the short film format. We are now starting to see television styled shows made solely for internet release (webisodes). Find an example of this style of content and discuss how viewing television content in this way can positively and negatively affect the viewer's experience.




http://www.youtube.com/user/collegehumor






Having shows on the internet is a good thing.
Well, except for people who work for television companies.
It gives the viewer the choice to "change the channel" easily and at any moment they can stop viewing it.

Week 4 - Tutespark

http://www.niceshorts.com.au/watch.asp?video=1989



Scrub is an Australian short film.
It is explained simply and the characters in the film are introduced well and we can understand a lot about them in a short space of time. By showing flashbacks we can discover more about the characters. Scrub was put together for a film competition.








This is an advertisement for Nike'.
As it is very fast paced and entertaining it would gain the audience's attention.






This short film I'd have to admit put me on the edge of my seat. For a moment there I was considering turning it off and looking for another one because i was expecting the passengers on the train to get murdered or something along those lines due to the intense music.
It would do well to capture viewers attention though as it keeps the audience on the edge of their seat.

Week 3

2. What is the best way (quickest, most reliable) to contact Ozzy Osborne?

Ozzy Ozborne is known to not participate in any social networking sites, though he does have a twitter site .
http://twitter.com/OfficialOzzy

Though many famous personalities do not run their own twitter pages so if this is the case then the best way to contact him would be through his manager: Sharon Osbourne.

http://www.ask.com/web?q=How+to+contact+ozzy+osbourne&search=&qsrc=0&o=10181&l=dir


3. When and what was the first example of global digital communication?

Morse Code was designed in 1835 by Samual Morse
http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Morse_code

4. What is the cheapest form of travel from the Gold Coast to Melbourne?
https://secure.flightcentre.com.au/tundra/spring/availability/avail

5. Who is Hatsune Miku? What company does she belong to? What is her birthday?

Hatsune Miku 'is a singing synthesizer application and its female character, developed by Crypton Future Media. It uses Yamaha Corporation's Vocaloid synthesizing technology. Her voice is sampled from Japanese voice actress Saki Fujita.'

The original was released the 31st of August 2007 so I guess you could say that was her birthday.

http://www.answers.com/topic/hatsune-miku

6. Find a live webcam in Antarctica. Find a place to stay in Antarctica.

http://www.sgisland.gs/index.php/%28h%29South_Georgia_webcam?useskin=


You can't stay in Antarctica unless offshore though scientists have ways to stay there, usually camping.

Polar Star

Converted Ice-Breaker for Expedition Cruises in Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctic Peninsula & Weddell Sea, Antarctica.

7. What song was top of the Australian pop charts this week in 1980?

On the 11th of August 1980 the number one song was Funky Town by Lipps Inc.

http://thisdayinmusic.com/birthdayno1

8. How would you define the term 'nano technology'? In your own words, what does it really mean?
Nano technology is the branch of engineering that deals with things smaller than 100 nanometers.


A nanometer is one billionth of a meter, therefore nanotechnology is simply the study of small extremely small things.

wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

9. What type of camera is used to make ‘Google Street View’?

An eleven lens Dodeca 2360

"The 11-lens, softball-size, video game-style gadget that had privacy advocates shifting in their seats turns out to be changing how users interact with video and the commercial realms."

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/news/4232286

10. Translate these questions into Klingon.

1. nuq 'oH vo' chay' 'ar ta'ta' 'oH Daq chen

2. nuq 'oH HochHom Daq
4. ghorgh 'ej nuq ghaHta' wa'DIch vo'
5. nuq 'oH vo' vo' SuD baS [Coast] Daq [Melbourne]
6. 'Iv 'oH [Hatsune] [Miku] nuq [company] ta'taH ghaH [belong] Daq nuq 'oH Daj qoS
7. tu' [a] yIn [webcam] Daq [Antarctica] tu' [a] Daq Daq [stay] Daq [Antarctica]
8. nuq bom ghaHta' [top] vo' [the] [Australian] [pop] [charts] vam [week] Daq
9. chay' [would] SoH [define] [the] [term] ['nano] [technology'] Daq lIj ghaj mu'mey nuq ta'taH 'oH [really] [mean]

http://www.mrklingon.org/




I missed the week 3 tutorial as I was sick and was horrified to find out the painful tasks I had to catch up on.
Being someone who religiously using google and wikipedia, this task was extremely annoying for me to complete.

Week 3 Treasure Hunt - Question 1

the giant bucket wheel excavator "Bagger 288" built by Krupp in Germany in 1978.
300 meters long, weight: 45,500 tons costing $100 000 000 to build.




http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2006/11/biggest-and-hungriest-machines.html

http://www.michaelgriswold.com/Pictures/ALL/bagger/bagger.html

Look Out Below - Week Two Video

Week 3 *tutespark*

3 Digital devices that are not electronic:

1. Battery
2.Morse Code
3.Counting Frames


Digital : displaying numbers rather than scale positions (wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn)


Analogue : something having the property of being analogous to something else. (wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn)


Communication:Communication is a process of transferring information from one entity to another. Communication processes are sign-mediated interactions between at least two agents which share a repertoire of signs and semiotic rules (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communication)


Electronic: of or relating to electronics; concerned with or using devices that operate on principles governing the behavior of electrons (wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn)





So I'm beginning to realise that my blog isn't exactly doing what the title says.
It vow to make it more exciting.
During week three lecture we learned the history of film which was explained in the portrayal of a time line.
It was amazingly interesting and I was quite upset when I learned that they actually run out of time to show us the end.

I'm going to have to read those lecture notes again before the exam because I don't remember a single date, event, or famous person to do with film.

But no, I admit the lecture was interesting, just hard to think about the amounts of information we were learning at once.

Week 2

In the lecture in week two we learned the basic shot types used when filming and in what situations the particular shots were most effective.







In week two tutorials we formed a group of three and took 30 photos to portray the shot types that we learned in the lecture. Each group was given a theme and ours was "Look Out Below". We made a story based on the theme and put the photos in order to tell the story.

Blog time - Week 1

Today I made my blog.
It was ever so exciting.
Definitely a turning point in life.

Convergence

Convergence is a studied approach to equilibrium state.

New communication technologies become old when there is something that is introduced that does the job easier and better. We can distinguish the difference between new and old simply by asking ourselves if it is the best 'tool' to get the particular job done.