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Week: 6
Seminar title: The Write Way

1. Appropriate questions (research, moderation, hosting)
I think for this section I’ll give the Write Way a D. From the handouts and while the host was introducing the guest, I felt that they did quite good at doing their research in order to provide the guest’s information and backgrounds clearly. The host was quite good at entertaining and interviewing the guest. Other than that, the host also did quite a good job to by asking questions that us the audience might want to know. I think the most useful question that the host asked was about how they get notice by people out there.

2. Guest relevance to the topic
For this section I think they worth a High.D. The guest that they have invited are all professions in the journalist industry, they are either a Writer, Editor, or well known blogger, which totally qualified to be one of the guest speaker for this seminar. Although some of the guest does not have lots of experience in this industry, but they’ve got a lot to say, things they said are all useful for us for future use. Especially about how to get yourself notice, and also about the hard time of getting a job, which are quite useful and something that we must know if we want to be a journalist.

3. Quality of seminar facilitation (including set-up, staging, refreshments, audience interaction, flow, technical eg sound, IT)
For this section I will be giving them a D.  They did a very good job on setting up the stage and also the sound and visual. The host and the guest were able to interact well with the audience. Their refreshment was quite good as well, the way they serve the refreshment was good to, instead of putting them all together on the table they serve it by walking around the room, which I think it is good, so that people wont have to squeeze and get the food.

4. Seminar Content
As for the seminar content, I will be giving a High.D. The seminar content suits the title of the seminar, especially when they were talking about how to get notice, and how useful Twitter/social network is. I realized through social network other than knowing more friends or keep on track about friends, we can use it to show our own ability and talent.

The Time-lapse workshop by Nic Kocher

I think it was the most useful and interesting workshop among all the others, especially when we get to go out from the class and experience ourself. It was fun!

What is time-lapse?

Time-lapse photography can be considered to be the opposite of high-speed photography.

Time-lapse is good for taking seasonal, we can control what happened in the frame.

Tips from Kocher

Use Tripod

-Camera have to be stable, weighted with shot bags might be needed

Use manual exposure

-It will be able to avoid flicker

Use manual focus

-Auto focus will make the focus jumpy, which is annoying to watch

Shoot on small or Medium Jpeg

Make sure camera menu settings are correct

Most important —– Be prepare for a long wait!!

Anthon Ikram Umit   from Melbourne Films.

Angie from our group found Anthon, CEO of Melbourne Films, we decided to invite him to be one of our guest speaker because we thinks that he has a strong background and experience about online video. Most of his video are promoted and showed online, therefore we reckon that he will have the ability to explain how to promote our video through the new media.

Anthon is a very nice guy, I called him, and he agreed to come to our seminar and be one of our guest speaker.

This is another practice of using stop-motion with a paper cut puppet, and with editing skills, by using After effects to clear up the background, and insert another background, using the “keying” effects. I guess this practice is useful for me while re-editing our 1st video, as our 1st video uses stop-motion, and the feedback that we’ve got is that we have to beware of our background we’ve got. therefore i think totally remove all the background will be better compare to adding things on it.

To be honest, i’ve missed a few of the meetings due to some personal reason, but although i missed a few of the meetings, i also did catch up with my group mates and also did go on facebook very frequently to find out what to be done. I’m now not responsible in the online video category anymore, i’m now responsible in the “social media” category that includes “how do we promote ourselves using the social media tool” , that i think involves blogs, therefore i’ve searched and contacted some blogger, and still waiting for their replies.

Loobylu – http://loobylu.com/about

Lobbylu by Claire Robertson

Claire Robertson mainly an online blogger and an illustrator, her blog won quite a few award in Australia, and her blog was one of the Top 10 in Australia.

“her work is widely admired for its elegance, humour and personality.” – The Australian

this is one of my stop-motion practice that i’ve made by using a clay puppet that i’ve made~

Momentshowing is an interesting blog, it has all kind of video that i found it quite interesting for online video. It is something worth to have a look. He describe his blog as “adventures in videoblogging”.

http://momentshowing.net/

i’m thinking Allan Thomas could be one of our guest for online video, as he is also experts of “New Media”, which some how related to online video, as it is part of new media?

+(61 3) 9925 3125
allan.thomas@rmit.edu.au

Next Potential guest would be Jenny Weight..her PhD was about the phenomenology of digital media, looking at various technologies and genres.
And i think she could be a guest for media apps as well, because her current research interests focus on ethnographic research into mobile phone and other media technology use.

Chris Caines, a media artist working primarily in online/locative media, performance and film/sound.
Chris is located in Sydney, therefore if possible we could skype with him?
http://chriscaines.com/?page_id=68

David Wolf (aka dpwolf) is a digital media artist who’s work focusses on the production of interactive, network based video works and performances.
http://dpwolf.net/blog/bio/

Jeremy Yuille is an interaction designer, digital media artist and academic with a background in digital art, music, performance and architecture.
http://jeremy.yuille.info/

Nah, I Mean No

I know him

I know that he knows me and that he knows that I know him

And we both know that we know the other knows what we know

And he must know that I know that girl that I know knows him

And that he knows I know that girl I know, and she knows I know he knows I know

And he knows I know he knows I know her

And she knows I know he knows I know him

But she’s new, I know

And he knows I knew she’s new

At least, he knew I know she’s new

And she knew too, I know

And at no time do we discuss what we know, because we know

So now you know, you know?

- Scott Sandwich