Digital media production

For my final presentation I decided to research and re design the videonow, here are the notes I collected before I started working on my presentation: After researching I got to work on compiling my info into a powerpoint presentation, I’ll insert an mp4 of the presentation along with the notes that go along with…

Silicon valley is located in the southern San Francisco bay area of California and is home to some of the largest start up companies on earth such as adobe, google and apple. The area gets its name from its regional association to the silicon transistor which is used in all modern microprocessors. An example of…

This week we discussed bringing back older technology and how and why we would miss an older piece of technology even when it’s not as good as what we have now. We get nostalgic for older technology not because we just wish it would come back all together or because we hate current technology, but…

In this lecture we discussed how machines store data and the different ways people have recorded data across history. In the slideshow we looked at various methods including the quipu which allowed data to travel by various coloured cords encoding the data, tally sticks which were wooden sticks people would carve data into; sticks with…

For this project we were given the task of creating a one minute music video to a song of our choosing. Being a group project we decided to pick out a couple of songs then come to a unanimous decision as to which one was the best fit and ended up agreeing that action movie…

For our typography project we were tasked with making a digital typography to represent the manifesto that we had worked on as a class the week before. We learned about the basic history and principals of typography and experimented with how we can creatively utilize text to have an impact on the viewer. Our first…

For our live brief we were tasked with creating TikTok’s to promote the schools upcoming open day and the digital media course in general. We were split up into groups with members of different year groups and had to work together to analyse trends in the current TikTok sphere and create TikTok’s we thought would…

Colour theory is the idea that colours can affect an audiences emotions and perceptions and the different ways colours can be used to achieve this. There are many different methods and ideas that go along with colour theory and each colour when used in particular ways can have different effects of people that can even…

For our homework we were asked to take 5 shots from varying sources and identify the camera angles and how they can create meaning and effect to the audience. Shot 1- Tron legacy This shot is a close up of Rinzler captured at a low angle. The shot emphasizes his intimidating nature and makes the…

In this lecture we had a guest speaker in to talk about repairability and how big tech companies are farming money from people. With difficult to repair phones that only last a few years, easily overheated batteries with a short lifespan and expensive limited storage; tech companies purposefully make it so you have to come…

We were given a tour of the futures lab and briefly shown each of the different machines in there. While we weren’t shown how to use them, we have the option to book inductions for each of them in our own time. There are 2 different types of 3d printers in there; one is a…

In this lecture we looked at interactive art, specifically the 1968 exhibition “cybernetic serendipity”- the first widely attended exhibition of computer art. It displayed all aspects of computer aided creativity from art to animation- in inspired a new age of art that incorporated technology which before hadn’t really been used for creative purposes, whereas today;…

For our week one lecture, we discussed different machines of the Victorian era (1820-1914). In a lot of ways the machinery of this time, while less efficient, has a certain kind of marvel and charm about it. When you look at these different machines you can clearly see the way they influenced modern technology, some…