week 5 summary

Week five lecture re-cap.

Consumption & Production

We consume information through a variety of sources, like BIG TV screens, cinema screens, we are kind of given what we see, but by using Internet--> we can actively seek out what we want to see.
Small screens Mobiles phones, smart phones and personal media players like iPods
The same with the news we see, that is just a percentage of what is out there as news. Citizen Journalism is something that has had a huge impact on how we see news these days. Ordinary people taking the reporters place by being able to record big things, Catastrophist like the Tsunami in 2004.




The only information that is available is reported by the Victims at that specific incident. Another dangerous problem that can occur with Citizens reporting is that it’s not necessary true.
CNN- news even have their own “I report” were MO-Jos (mobile journalists) can post their own stories, which might get picked up by other sources that report news.















Week five tutespark "Culture jamming"
"Culture jamming, is the act of using existing media such as billboards, bus-ads, posters, and other ads to comment on those very media themselves or on society in general, using original medium's communication method"
thhttp://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=culture+jame
culture jammers looks at advertising as pure propaganda, and use the logo or trademark to alter it into their point of view.

To find the first culutre jam, was not easy but i think i got it in the right direction. Back in the 1800 when the social thinker Rousseau wrote his book 'Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences'. He claimed that society, and the "overly mannered rituals of its social institutions" was responsible for the corruption of human kind (Social jamming; A sociological perspective, 2006).

What i found to be the most influential Culture jam depends what each individual thinks. I myself think this add is really influential, in worst case scenarios this is happening. People re getting to drunk, and end their own life. Just in the staten over 100.000 people dies from alcohol each year.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_people_die_from_drinking_alcohol_per_year

https://www.adbusters.org/gallery/spoofads

To found the most damaging Culture jam does not require much work, just think about the worst ever junk food distributor Mac Donalds. Again Adbusters have a influential Add. it is funny and serious at once, this is actually killing people.

In tutorial exercise week 4

1.Where and when did usable online video start?
What i found to be the first online video uploaded is on the 23rd of April 2005 it was shoot by , Yakov Lapitsky, it was titled 'Me at the Zoo' . It features on of the founders of Youtube Jawed Karim, at the San Diego Zoo. here is the link to the video: http:
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw

2. In the lecture we heard about technological innovations that were used by the studios to lure audiences.
What was told in yesterdays lecture was that the technological innovations that were used to make people come back to the cinemas was that people got for instance a 2 for 1 ticket to the films that were going at the time; they got one big hit movie and a B movie as well.
The 3D glasses were another innovation that was used to get more people to come to the cinemas and it came already in 1952, which is a long time ago. They took the 3D glasses away because the movies at that time was not in the same quality as they are today, so it was not that big of an experience.. But today, a lot of movies are not the same without those glasses. 2010 is also said to be one of the biggest years when it comes to 3D. The one thing that comes again when it comes to 3D top movies is animated or partial animated like Alice in wonderland, Toy story 2 and Step Up 3D.



One of the reasons i think the business is luring is back to the movies is to that we actually pay for what we see, that we don’t download every movie we urge to see, but we actually buy a ticket to see the movie in real cinema style. And therefore making sure that the big studios can continue to produce big hits in the future. Other different ways that is used to lure is to release a trailer before on the net, so we can get excited and maby pre-order our ticket for the film. Or you can download the sound theme for the movie as a ringtone.



3. Are short films still beeing made?Who pays for them to be made?
Short films is a facinating things that ha developed a long way from the 1985 when it all started and people had never seen emotion picture on a screen, to where we are today. today there is several short movies out on specially the net, that is a easy way to reach out the audience in a almost free way. The short films that you actually see on the TV screen is for example those that are produced as scary campaignes. In most cases it is the government or insurance companies that pay short film producers to make these film. Especially insurance companies order films that make a " wanted" impression on you. Take for instance this comercial for seatbealt use.


4.The term viral is thrown about adhoc but what does it mean in film/movie arena? Give some examples.
The term viral in the movie world means that for instance a movie get instant attentions over night, that a short film for instance is spread a cross the internett like fire in dry grass. A very good example for this is the hilarious short film parody on Star Wars/ COPS


5. Online video distribution isn't limited to the short film format. We are now starting to see television styled shows made solely for internet release (webisodes).
A really good example of shows made entirely for the internet is the show mady by the genius guys behind Awesometown.

week 4. summary+ movie tutespark

Week 4 summary.
The history of Cinema was the outline for this weeks lecture. It all started in France on the 28 of December, 1895 when France got it first Cinema. The cinemas in Paris were full off people that want to watch the 20 minutes short divided into 10 short stories, so it was sent as much as 10 times a day. At that time it was no permanently movie theaters in Paris, but after this enormous interest a movie theatre was completed in 1897. Now that they had a place to show film, the urge for making films started to grow, and in 1903 a real life-based film was put on to life, lasting no more then 10 minutes. The film was called "the story of the Kelly gang" it was actually an Australian production.









Until then the films that have been out was with no sound at all, so in 1927 the first film with an talking dialog the Jazz singer came out, sound + films= money, that resulted in 1929 that the first talking, color ,dancing picture film came on the screens in New York City. As a result of films with all this features, a nominee award was needed, The Oscars. The first ever Oscar award was held at the 16 Th. of May at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.























Only ten years later Disney released the first full length animated film, the ever famous Snow white and the seven dwarf.
The evolution from BIG screen to small screen i must admit i take for granted. All the changes over the last decade that has literally change how we receive entertainment. The IMAX cinema, pay tv, and then there is computer games. The development of the screen is enormous. I have actually taken part of som of the history, the first Disney/Pixar GCI (Computer generated imagery) gilm, Toy story. Im giving the children from this genaration a thought, everything they are taking for granted. Here is anyway the trailer for the first totally animated feature lenght film.





WEEK FoUR TUTESPARK.....

This weeks tutespark was to find three short film, thats had a story.

The first one i found was a short movie called "Cocaine Jesus" its very fascinating how a film with only word can be bring such a story. I think people in our days like things simple, and by giving suck a message through just a black screen with white words is what people want!


The second film i enjoyed the most was a short film called "Death & Taxes" by Jeremy Bartel, for some people filing taxes is a nightmare. Jeremy Bartel is making a film about what i think some people think and want to do with the tax man in worst case cenario. One of the factors about this film is that he put to life what people may think about doing but never dears to.

Death & Taxes from Jeremy Bartel on Vimeo.

The third one i found that fascinated me was a Sam Hendi film called black sheep. I liked the drama in it, you can understand the big sisters frustration over looking for her little sister the whole night. I think the film is trying to give people an idea of how a life could be for a family after the parents are gone. How a big sisters struggle to maintain the bond they once had. What is not easy when the situation is turned upside down like that.

Black Sheep - Short Film from Sam Hendi on Vimeo.

We were also asked the to find out what

week 3

A short history of computing and the Internet.
Charles Babbage was an English mathematician, philosopher, mechanical engineer and an inventor, not bad to have that many titles. What he is most famous for is to be found at the museum of science in London, the "difference engine" that he began his work on in 1822 and finished in 19th century; it is composed of over 25.000 parts and weighed over 13000 KG. The difference engine, was originally created to calculate and print mathematical tables. This is also what we can call the computers "origin".


Another person announced in the lecture was a pretty lady with the name Ada byron, she is the daughter of the famous poet, Lord Byron. Her mother did her best to make sure her daughter did not end up as a poet as her dad, so she was brought up to be a mathematician and scientist.
She became really fascinated by Babbage work, she even suggested that a machine of that kind could be used to produce music, that it could be used for both practical and scientific use, something that is really sick that they thought about for that many years ago.
The work of Ada Byron got recognised as the first “computer program". The development of computer was taken on by an English man called Alan Turning, he wrote the paper called “on computable numbers". He used his expertise to make the machine called “the bomb" that was developed to break the Germans secret Enigma codes.

In the 1950s the first commercially produced computer came out from IBM. The computers produced at that time were for military and governmental use. These computers were too big for any regular person to have in their home, so everyone understood that the computers needed to be minimized dramatically.
In 1965 a really smart man with the name Gordon E. Moore said that the capacity of microchip's needed to be doubled every second year. The trend has continued for more than half a century and is not expected to stop until 2015 or later, but what do we do then?

The next step in computer development was to make it useful for everyone, it needed a common language that everyone could understand to handle a computer, the nerd that developed that was the ever famous Bill Gate. On another place in a garage some other nerds Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak and created their own company called Apple.


In 1960 a company with the name RAND corporation came up with the idea of internet, what we can say is one of the histories biggest networking inventions. The world that was big a decade ago is now just in front of us. There is nothing you cant find there. People often mistake the Internet for the Web but this is actually two different things. You can look at it this way, every webpage on the internet is just a collection of files images and sounds stored on a computer,and the internet is more like a network of computers. When we are using a web browser like safari, Opera to look at different web pages like CNN, we are looking at that specific page, not the files on the computer. We can update people of our life trough Facebook and blogs like this, read a newspaper from India, upload and share a homemade movie on in minutes with the rest of the world.

this weeks tutespark was to find at least three different non-electronic digital devices:

the first one i found that i think is a non electronic digital adviser is morse code.

The second one i found after a long time researching for it was something called the Braille a-system. It is said about the braille system that it is a "tactile system of raised dots representing letters of the alphabet." This is the way blind people use to communicate . The web page says it was invented in Paris by a man named Louis Braille in 1929.

http://www.cnib.ca/en/living/braille/braille-system/default.aspx

The third i found was what is called Abacus:

Abacus was invented in China 5000 years ago.

An abacus is used to track numbers as you do the computing rather than acutally doing the computing.

week 3 treasure hunt

Question 1
What i found to be the world largest machine is a 95 meters high and 215 meters long (almost 2.5 football fields in length)Weight is 45,500 tons
It took 5 years to design and manufacture at a cost of $100 million.
here is the link:
http://www.swapmeetdave.com/Humor/Workshop/Trencher.htm

Question 2:
The easiest way to contact Ozzy himself is through his page on Twitter :








question 3.
When and what was the first example of global digital communication?

I must admit this was not an easy one,what i found to be the first example of global digital communications network is the internet, the internett reach back to the 1960s, but it was not until the early 1990s that internet became an international network . But it is not the first invented communication device, one is a machine called teletypewriter it has its origin all back to 1870s as a method of displaying text transmittesd over wires.
Here is the link:
http://mysite.du.edu/~jcalvert/tel/teletype.htm">

Question 4.
what is the cheapest way of travel from the Gold Coast to Melbourne?
The cheapest way i found getting from the Coast to Melbourne was with Tiger airways on tuesday the 7th of september leaving at 6.00 am.
Here is the link:
http://travel.webjet.com.au/webjettsa/





Question 5.
Who is Hatsune Miku? What company does she belong to? What is her birthday?
Hatsune Miku is a a "voice application" by a company by the name Crypton Future Media. It is a voice sample from the Japanese actor Saki Fujita that is on born October 19, 1984.













Here is the link:
http://www.last.fm/music/Fujita+Saki




Question 6.
Find a live webcam in Antarctica. Find a place to stay in Antarctica.
The webcamera that are live from the Antartica at the moment that i found is at the McMurdo station .The original station was built in 1955 to 1956 for the International Geophysical Year. Today the station is the primary logistics facility for supply of inland stations, and is also the waste management center for much of the U.S. Antarctic Program.
Here is the link:
http://www.usap.gov/videoClipsAndMaps/mcmwebcam.cfm http://www.usap.gov/videoClipsAndMaps/mcmwebcam.cfm

You cant find a place to stay in Antartica that is luxurious, you can stay at one on the weather stations up there, one i found is called Henryk Arctowski, in Admiralty Bay, King George Island.












Here is the link:
http://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/dab/overview.html.



Question 7.
What song was top of the Australian pop charts this week in 1980?
The number ine in week 32 in Australia was the ever famous "Funkytown" by Lipps Inc.
Here is the link:
http://funkytown.com/


















Question 8
How would you define the term 'nano technology'? In your own words, what does it really mean? Nanotechnology is the engineering of functional systems at the molecular scale.
It means in basic words, building machines at the size of a molecule that are only a few nanometers wide, such as robot arms,and computers computers.
















Here is the link:http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/962484/nanotechnology



Question 9
What type of camera is used to make ‘Google Street View’?
The camera usen in Google street View is Dodeca 2360, it is created and designed a company with the name: Immersive Media.


Here is the link: http://www.immersivemedia.com/products/capture.htm



Question 10
Translate all these questions into Klingon:
Q1: nuq 'oH [the] [weight] vo' [the] [world’s] [biggest] [machine] chay' 'ar ta'ta' 'oH [cost] Daq chen

Q2: nuq 'oH [the] [best] [way] [quickest] HochHom [reliable] Daq [contact] [Ozzy] [Osborne]

Q3: ghorgh 'ej nuq ghaHta' [the] wa'DIch [example] vo' [global] [digital] [communication]

Q4: nuq 'oH [the] [cheapest] [form] vo' [travel] vo' [the] SuD baS [Coast] Daq [Melbourne]

Q5: 'Iv 'oH [Hatsune] [Miku] nuq [company] ta'taH ghaH [belong] Daq nuq 'oH Daj qoS

Q6: tu' [a] yIn [webcam] Daq [Antarctica] tu' [a] Daq Daq [stay] Daq [Antarctica]

Q7: nuq bom ghaHta' [top] vo' [the] [Australian] [pop] [charts] vam [week] Daq

Q8:chay' [would] SoH [define] [the] [term] ['nano] [technology'] Daq lIj ghaj mu'mey nuq ta'taH 'oH [really] [mean]

Q9: nuq [type] vo' [camera] 'oH [used] Daq chenmoH [‘Google] [Street] [View’]

Q10: [Translate] Dochvammey [questions] Daq tlhIngan


Here's the link to the Klingon Translator:
http://www.mrklingon.org/

this is our fantastic frame-shoot "movie" must admit this is not the easiest thing i have done. we had a lot of fun though.
the result could always be better, but take into consideration that we are psychology students please :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_LQs2quPvE

Week 2

Week 2 lecture summary.

What the lecture in week 2 was suppose to be about computer history or something, I’m kind of happy that the lecturer called in sick, because the one we had instead was much more interesting and fun.
One of the themes for the lecture was about who, how, where, why, when, what and to shoot a good film, the questions that the filmmaker need to “answer” to show the full range of different skills. Like, “who” a close up shows for the first who the character is, and the detail. It is also a perfect way to show the emotions.
“How” is kind of hard to express / explain so a single –medium series of close up is a good idea. Then there is the “where” a way to show that is to do a long shot, that catches the character and the surroundings so the where can be answered, it is usually to have it in the beginning to give the audience an idea of what is to come. “Why”, big close up is necessary, is to reveal more about the character itself.
Both wide shoot and long shot is an answer to the “When” question. Like for example a wide shoot of a watch, because time is difficult to explain. The most “common” way to answer the “what” question is by using a mid-shot. That is also a good way to shoot an action scene.
There is also a few “rules” that should be held in mind when you are shooting a person that is performing a monolog in some way, it is important that the is enough talking room, the person you are filming need to have the head in the middle of the frame. Not to close, or fare away from the camera. Another thing to be aware of is the head room, like not try to make a short person look taller or vice verse, and not to cut the head off the person you are filming. There is also the rule of “third” that if you make a 3*3 grid and the four intersections that then appear is where the face should be. 180 degree rule, which applies when it comes to shooting a monolog between two persons like this:












What we also discussed the different genres that are today, all from thriller, drama, horror, action, comedy and family. One of the genres that is really popular that evolves from crossing each other is “romance action” the big hit on the screen right now is the movie called Killers, with Catherine Heigl and Ashton Kutcher . It is predicted that a genre like that will last for at least a decade. The movie cycle will always be in change, and maybe the next popular genre is family horror? Who knows. We just need to wait and se