IDM blog

 Hi Everyone! Today I will be talking about my finished production of my project and how me and my group got on during the weeks doing this project. We have everything finished at this point. All that is left is to put everything together and make sure there are no mistakes or problems with the video. When I was first put into my group for cultural remixes I did panic as I literally had no clue what this topic was about, as we started to talk with each other in the group about the topic I actually started to get really invested in this project. I started to do my research at home after the lab we had and I found it enjoyable. I tried to research a lot of examples of cultural remixes that were taken out of context completely and that were turned into something else. I also looked at copyright issues in cultural remixes. The research I found the most interesting was when I found cultural features of video games and game usage in society.  That was all my research I did for the v...

   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...