Digital Audiovisual Media Class Blog

by Clara Heras Aguilar33676766 11/11/2022 Theo Anthony places a lent in his camera and gets his eye close to it. His intention: to show us how his optic nerve is. The subtitles, working here as a voice-over, explain us that it is a blind spot. “The brain invents a world to fill the hole at…

It is evident that the development of digital technologies has enabled various new forms of film producing and editing styles these days. Terms such as “chaos cinema” and “post continuity” are brought up by many scholars studying the concept of post-cinema. However, it is also important to look at what new sensations and viewing experiences…

The 21st century is a time of immediacy, people are living under a culture of instantaneity in every aspect of their lives, social, work, or personal life. John Tomlinson defines the term The condition of Immediacy as ideas of instantaneity, a culture that looks for instant gratification of desire (Tomlinson, 2007). In this scenario, media…

Trans TV looks into the transformation of television as a collective, in aspects of the distribution, consumerism and as stated “aesthetic transformations both of televisual programmes and the televisual experiences of audiences.” Goddard, M. N., & Hogg, C. (2018) I’d like to focus on specifically how Netflix has allowed for the expansion of not just…

Binge watching is a term that was invented not too long and can be accredited the rise in popularity of streaming services such as Netflix & Amazon prime.  This post will look into why this phenomenon has developed as such, with a focus on how Netflix has essentially re-invented the consumption of television. Netflix was…

“Cinema traditionally involved arranging physical reality to be filmed through the use of sets, models, art direction, cinematography, etc. Occasional manipulation of recorded film (for instance, through optical printing) was negligible compared to the extensive manipulation of reality in front of a camera.” (Denson and Leyda, 2016) The film, “The Mummy Returns”, which is a…

Post Cinema looks at the arguments and investigations into digital cinema, how it has allowed the possibility of non-indexical cinema and an emergence of new ontologies. However, Post cinema also looks at new forms of cinematic techniques & viewing experiences that were already taking place before digital cinema was replaced as the new standard. However,…

New media was a term coined to represent, essentially the age of cinema that had been redefined and changed with the introduction and conversion from analogue to digital. Basically, theorists argued that new media, was not a new foreign entity in itself but rather a evolved more updated version of old cinema, and with that…

Amanda Lotz emphasizes in her book ‘Introduction: Netflix and the Reinvention of Television’, That there are several aspects of what she defines as the post-network  condition, lots  of them are different to what she originally imagined: for her they  mainly fall under either Interoperability, or Efficiency. Interoperability: Digital technologies “provided the opportunity to converge  televisions,…

Binge watching emerged with the new technological changes that appeared through how television is distributed. The way people viewed television changed when multiple on demand streaming platforms was developed such as Netflix, HBO and amazon prime. These platforms created the popularity of binge watching as they freed people from the task of scheduling ( A,…