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   Hi Everyone! This week I watched a few videos about representation and I found them very interesting and would like to share my thoughts and what I learned of them. Why does representation matter? It is a way of people to see themselves, it validates what they look like or who they love. When creating worlds where entire races don't exist, bigger bodies don't exist, sexual orientations don't exist, you're creating a lie that does damage to the viewers. How to not make mistakes of not having groups represented properly in the media in the future is to hire them, put them behind the camera, behind the scenes, to be creators who can tell their own stories. Representation is one of the cornerstones of media studies and traditionally looks at how the media literally represents reality for example like social groups, events, etc. It's always measured accurately that these representations are against reality. Stuart Hall saw a problem that implies the original subject h...

 Hi Everyone, Today I read a few articles and I found them very interesting. They have given advice for improving common academic writing issues and they really helped me improve on my re-writing experience this week. The first thing I will be talking about is how to make your writing more concise. The main goal is to use the most effective words to concise your video. Concise writing always includes all the strongest words. Only the effective words should remain and the writing will suit this and be more readable for the viewers. To do this in your writing the first step is to replace several vague words with more powerful and specific words. Therefore this means that instead of using multiple small words and making the paragraph long you can just express your ideas through fewer specific words in a better way. The second step is to interrogate every word in a sentence. This is where you check every word to make sure it is providing something important to the viewers in the senten...

    Hi Everyone, This week we made more progress with our groups for our projects. We met with our group to discuss all the research we have done for our project during reading week. The topic of the research was how cultural remixes were taken from cultures. The topic of the research was how different cultures influences in todays films, TV shows, etc. When we met up we decided for the video that we don't want our faces included. Kris has taken responsibility of animation for our video. We also decided for the video that we will use the B-roll step. This step is basically where you get all the shots/details for the video. We are adding this to make the video interesting to watch for the viewers.  When we met up this week in our Introduction to Digital Media lab we decided to start to write our script for next week. Kris will be doing the introduction to the video and also the animation and the rest of us will do the rest of the script. We began compiling our resear...

 Hi Everyone! Today I watched a few videos about video compression, video format, codecs and containers and I found them extremely helpful, so I would like to share my thoughts about them. There are 2 ways to compress a video which is spatial compression (intra-frame)or temporal compression (inter-frame). Spatial compression is applied only to individual video frames. To compress a video frame it is the same process that is used to compress a still image like a JPEG. When JPEG is created, colour information of the image reduces in the process called chroma subsampling. Then the image is split in sections of 8x8 pixels called macroblocks. Then the file size is reduced. For MPEG (motionJPEG) it's more complicated.  Temporal compression works by reducing redundancy, like JPEG the MPEG standard breaks a video frame into 8x8 pixel macroblocks and each macro block receives instructions on what to do with pixels they already have. There are instructions for staying exactly the same f...

  Hi Everyone! This week I had my peers give feedback on one of my blog posts, and I had to rewrite my blog post based on the feedback I got to create a better post. I found this week's blog to be quite difficult as the feedback was very positive and I honestly didn't know what to rewrite or what to do as I was happy with the post already. It took me a bit more time than I expected but I did end up rewriting it successfully and I'm even more happy with how it turned out in the end. I read an article that really helped me rewrite my blog. In the article what really helped me was when I looked at the relevance and importance of the content that was in the feedback. I realised that I needed to give more factual information and less of waffling about unnecessary information in my blogs. I also thought about the things I could have included and why I didn't include them. Where I was going with my sentences in some areas and if they were clear to the audience and not just me....

Hey Everyone! Today I watched three videos about cameras and audio. I found them extremely useful for my photography and my videos in the future so I would like to share them with you. There are 5 camera basics that everyone needs to know to make professional photography and videos. The first one is Frame Rate. This tells you how many frames are in 1 second of your video, For example we shoot a video in 1 second with 30 frames. It basically means it takes 30 photographs in 1 second. The industry standard is 24 FPS "most cinematic", This is the most natural looking motion. If you want to do a slow motion you do it on 60 FPS so when it is slowed down it is clean and smooth.  There are 3 settings to get correct exposure which is the ISO, shutter speed and the aperture. The second one is the ISO, usually known as "fake light" . It's a way to make your image brighter or darker completely digitally. The down side to this is that it produces noise/grain in the image/ w...