A Theory of Fun... A Theory of Fun by Raph Koster is a book designed to inspire game designers to think of new bigger and better game ideas, furthermore it includes a narrative about what drives us as consumers to seek out new products whilst for it to become an addiction. "Koster is widely recognized as one of the world's top thinkers about game design"...
Presentation... After mentioning the book "Convergence Culture"- whilst explaining that we had to create a Wiki which will provide information for others to be able to use in order to complete an essay question; myself and my team members then had to present our Wiki in our media lecture to the other media students. Due to doing extra research about "Convergence Culture"- we...
Stop-frame Animation Currently myself and members of my team are in the process of creating a stop-frame animation, before beginning this process we had to collectively come up with ideas which we think would be appropriate for the project. Meanwhile we also did further research to review what ideas are already out in the media, and perhaps what we could make or do...
People on the Move... Working as a team in a small group we have been given a brief to create a short film with the theme "People on the Move"- therefore at some point within the narrative it must illustrate people on the move. Initially we watched previous years films for the same project, to give ourselves some inspiration whilst an overview of...
Convergence Culture by Henry Jenkins __________________________________________________________ Convergence Culture is a book written by Henry Jenkins describing the relationship between three concepts; collective intelligence, media convergence and participatory culture. A Filipino- American high school student, Dino Ignacio created a collage using Photoshop of the terrorist leader Osama Bin Laden with Sesame Streets character Bert- which ultimately created a meaning that "Bert is Evil"- this is what...
Liverpool through the lens... As I was touring around Liverpool, I took some snap shots of some of the monuments and buildings which I found intriguing. Due to now having a Flickr account, where I can ultimately upload images which I have taken and edited; I thought I would take some more to build on this. Furthermore I added a caption along with...
Sequential Art; Telling a narrative through images... Sequential art dates right back to the 17th century, furthermore it was the process of illustrating a narrative through a variety of images which were mainly used within comics. Meanwhile storyboards, film and animation also relate to sequential art too Will Eisner who is known to be "the most important contributors to the development of the medium",...
Collective Intelligence... - Significantly I was inspired by listening to a brief summary within my lecture of "The Medium is the Massage" published in 1967 by a philosopher of communication hypothesis, Marshall Mcluhan. Mcluhan became well known especially in the 1960's early 1970's for creating phrases such as "Media is the message" and "The global village" along with effective graphics to represent his...
Experimenting with Adobe Photoshop... Initially my job role was to explore the city of Liverpool showing evidence of this through a camera lens. Along with this I had to be selective using a variety of shot types which will portray parts of Liverpool effectively. Furthermore I had taken pictures from different angles, for example a low angle shot of The Wellington Monument; due to the...
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ACTION, CRIME & THRILLER My recent media experience... Crucially a film must be engaging within the first few seconds, otherwise I...
