Wednesday, August 30, 2023

Welcome to My AICE Media Studies Blog!

      Media is something we consume on a daily basis, whether is be the internet, photography, books, etc. Media is just a way of mass communication through different things. We study Media to decode our consumption and find a better understanding of what we are consuming and why we are consuming it. My name is Selina Bain, and the main media product that I consume is Pinterest. Pinterest is not the most popular media product but is still widely used. Many people, like myself, uses Pinterest to build their creativity, to find helpful posts, or what we call them, pins and to get social with people around the world. It could be engaging to my age group because all while we create pins that cause us to have a little laugh, we also have pins that we could really relate to so, we are able to interact with many topics that we are interested in. Both politically and personally. By far the three things I find interesting in media studies is the information that we are able to acknowledge about how many media products are created and the main purpose it was created for, how to create our own media and engage certain types of audiences that we want to reach out to and the different types of media.

     The type of media product that I will be documenting on my blog is an opening film. The type of opening film I will create is not fully decided yet but will most likely be a mysterious and thrilling film. I want people to find my film intriguing and eye catching, with the message being light and simple. Something that deals with the psychology of crime and killers. But to be able to create such a film, I would have to watch and research about crime and the mental state of serial killers. I would have to watch a lot of crime documentaries or something related. Something I will also have to do is focus more on setting, audio and moods. My film will most likely be ready to be released around the end of 2023 of the beginning of 2024. 

    The 4 strategies I will need to successfully create my film is synergy, creativity, commitment and editing skills. With these, it will help me a lot with the theme I am going for and to pull my audience.


Preliminary Exercise 14: Sound Case Study

 Introduction "Sound Design is the alchemy that turns noise into art." - Walter Murch To go more in depth of sound design, I wante...