August 2009
2 posts
ARRH...
Don’t you hate it? All you do is work and work and work, and it feels like as if you have accomplished NOTHING. I seriously hate this feeling! I feel like that’s all I am doing is working my ass off to finally finish something, but I cant do it. Today my group partner and I got together and with the help of my wonderful/amazing boyfriend Geoff, we were able to knock something together...
June 2009
5 posts
My linking blogs throughout the semester
http://jessabella.tumblr.com/post/88576394/api-and-mashup
http://jessabella.tumblr.com/post/101833186/web-2-0
http://jessabella.tumblr.com/post/106201363/multiplicity
The link to Production Project B - YouTube →
Production B - Rationale
For the Production B Project I decided to do the Vimeo/YouTube video which looked at the site as a whole and how it operates. Testing its ability to broadcast yourself and let the world see what you have to offer. What is found on YouTube is pretty much anything you type into the search engine, the more tags and views a video has the more likely it will come up in the search and therefore the...
Finale Week 15
Over the semester everyone in network media were asked to keep a blog to respond and make more sense of what we have been reading and doing work on. It was a new concept to me as I have never kept a blog before and it was a bit hard in the start getting use to every week making sure I had written something. I was never one to keep a diary or anything, so reflecting for me was a bit hard, and...
May 2009
6 posts
Some more Youtube....
This week i focused on making my video better and better. I have got all my footage and added it all together. Today I got even further, I went for a drive and found a vacant road and petrol station, do you know how hard it is to find a petrol station in Canberra that has NO CARS at it??!! Very hard indeed, spent a lot of time driving. Though it was all worthwhile in the end when I finally found...
YouTube - Broadcast Yourself =)
Well this week I have been busy thinking and planning my production B assignment. I am going to do the YouTube video and my main theme is going to be about the idea that people would prefer to be on the internet than watching the television, at the park or even out shopping. My clip shows groups of people enjoying YouTube while other public places are silent because everyone is home watching...
Data. Everywhere
Data, data. data surrounds us! This week was all about data. We looked at data visulisations and they truly amazed me. Just the way all the data is processed and configured to make it interesting yet informative to the audience - it is the representation of abstract non-physical information (verses the depiction of physical artifacts).
We spoke about how certain images and sounds encourage...
Multiplicity
This week was all about multiplicity, did you know just for fact that multiplicity is a movie?? I did not know that until I tried to search for this topic on google and it kept coming up!!!!. When first hearing about it I was confused and what not sure exactly what was meant by it, but once reading over my lecture notes I realised that the perfect quote for multiplicity is indeed one said through...
Summer Nights - Grease →
Stop motion video really interests me and this video is just well down with the lego pieces singing to Grease. I feel it captivates the audience as the lego pieces float across the screen singing. I think it is just worth while a look, go on… TAKE A LOOK =)
Project B - starter, or should I say not...
I have been continually thinking about what I could do for my network media assignment, Project B.
I like the sound of the youtube/vimeo but I don’t know if I have what it takes to make it spectacular… I want something that will captivate, make an audience never want to stop reading/watching my project, though at the moment I feel like I have hit a brick wall, I have no ideas or...
April 2009
5 posts
Web 2.0
Wow, what a concept, I had only ever heard of web 2.0 on myspace, when they decided to change around their layouts and I could not figure out how to do it. Though listening to the lecture on Tuesday, it all started to make sense to me about how it works and what I am to expect. A few of the words mentioned to describe the next generation of web design are, usability, design, standardisation,...
Rationale
For Project A I decided to curate an online exhibition of photography. I found this one interested me most and I believe that it would show my skills the best. I have only just recently moved to Canberra and I decided to show the two different sides of the Nation’s Capital, from both a tourist and local point of view. There are things all around Canberra that are ‘considered’ only tourist...
Pixel Ads →
I think everyone should check this out, it is interesting, just one of the things you find while surfing the net in your spare time.
Carving up the World
This weeks lecture was all about ‘carving up the world.’ The structures and patterns that present themselves on the internet, making it easier both for the designer of the site and for the audience who will be accessing the information. We went through how depending on the object we accept it differently. Eg. clothes, are different according to culture and age. Food, what is legal, how...
March 2009
10 posts
Light Heart
This week there was no lecture, it was actually a shame as I quite enjoy a lecture gives me something to think about before the tutorial, but alas today I had to walk into the room, trying to think in a net work language without having a lecture running through my head. Today actually would have been my most nervous tutorial EVER. I had to go to the computer and show everyone my blog, as one by...
API and Mashup
This week lecture was looking at API(application programming interface) and mashup.
I had never really know how they combined sites together to make them even better than before, for example notifyr.com or tuneage.tumblr.com both sites which are built off the back of existing services.
API’s enable functionality throughout the sites. This makes it easier for the audience to use the...
HTML
This week was on the topic of HTML (HyperText Markup Language), something I am not very confident at all. The only time I have come in contact with HTML is with myspace, and even then I only ever knew how to make text bigger or smaller, put in a break, italics and bold. So this is quite a new concept in learning how to make something with html, not just with the text but with images as well.
In...
How do you....????
Me: So, um... I was wondering.. how do I copy and paste?
Pradeep: ap....ple
Me : (I look around)
Pradeep: (He points)
Me: Oh!
Pradeep: Yes and now C
Me: So erm, how do I paste?
Pradeep: ap..ple and V
Me: Um... ok... Thank you
Me: (I successfully copy and paste without using the mouse!!!)
Pradeep: Now... how do you spell....?
Me: mmm...?
Welcome =)
Hey, I am Jess and I have just started a degree at the University of Canberra in Media Arts and Production. I absolutely love it!! I have always been one to create movies at home with friends, and learn more about computers. Though one aspect of this course which is completely new to me and that is blogging. Before the lecture the other day, I never knew that it was a shortened version for...
Western Spaghetti →
I cant stop singing this… it was played on...
Where oh Where?
I recently moved to a new city, and I am constantly getting lost… but as I have been here 2 weeks, I thought it was time to try driving without my GPS. I was driving home from work and decided it was my time to take a “shortcut” to the university. I worked out if I turned one round-a-bout early I should end up just on the other side of the uni… Well.. wasn’t that just...