Digital Audiovisual Media Class Blog

There is a strong connection between Valorant gamers who use YouTube and the various types of channels and content that are produced on the platform. This trend reflects the wider popularity of gaming content on YouTube. Many competitive gamers take advantage of YouTube to share a range of content, including professional match footage, tutorials that…

What does Chaos Cinema means? When audiences watches action sequences or dialogue sequences, the movements might be shaky, intensified, or even to an extent of feeling overwhelmed by the amount of information that is happening on screen. Audiences will receive the tension and chaoticity from this type of style under a particular sense of purpose.…

Cinema has always entertained and influenced the human race, in the 1896 ‘Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat, we first saw the power of the bubble of cinema, where the viewers of the film ran for their lives from the train approaching the screen. However, the machine of cinema has changed, where the dispensary…

In the “Assemblage” chapter of Casetti’s The Lumière Galaxy, he states the cinematic “machine” is made of distinctive components: theatre, screen, audience and film. Casetti claims, in the digital age, the “machine” no longer appears to be an apparatus: closed and predetermined. Rather it’s an assemblage: a dynamic structure, where each element changes together with…

Rhys Mitchell 33753411 MTV once ruled the world of music videos, pumping out big-budget productions and clear messages from the artist. Directors like Hype Williams turned music videos into mini-blockbusters, leaving fans in awe but firmly on the sidelines. Fast forward to today, and platforms like YouTube and TikTok have changed that one-way relationship. Carol…

Rhys Mitchell 33753411 When The Umbrella Academy reintroduced Elliot Page’s ‘Viktor Hargreeves’, it felt like a groundbreaking moment for trans-representation. Here was a major show incorporating a trans-character into its story with respect and care. But as season 3 unfolded, Viktor’s transition was treated almost as an afterthought – a quick conversation, a few affirmations,…

Rhys Mitchell 33753411 Everything Everywhere All At Once is a wild ride through the chaos of modern life, wrapped up in a mind-bending, multiversal adventure. The film follows Evelyn Wang, an overlooked laundromat owner, as she’s thrown into a dimension-hopping journey that’s as emotionally overwhelming as it is visually dazzling. It’s messy, weird, and deeply…

Rhys Mitchell 33753411 Streaming platforms have promised us everything – entire seasons at our fingertips, endless on-demand content, and the freedom to watch whenever we please. But as binge-watching becomes the dominant mode of consumption, TV is arguably losing that magic which made it a shared, emotional experience. Mareike Jenner suggests that streaming, while convenient,…

Rhys Mitchell 33753411 Digital technology has advanced to the point that computers can conjure up just about anything that our creative minds can imagine; from incredible alien worlds, terrifying monsters, and death-defying action scenes. CGI doesn’t force stuntmen to risk life and limb to get that perfect visual, it doesn’t require complicated pyrotechnics, or expensive…

Over the past couple of years reaction videos to music videos and songs have been becoming more and more popular. And they are changing how we watch and view songs from artists all over, as reactions are becoming bigger and bigger.  Reaction videos allow people to have a sense of community and social interaction when…