Digital Audiovisual Media Class Blog

Have you ever found a series so captivating it hypnotises you from the first episode to the last? In the ever-evolving world of technological advancements, film and television has seen its development from rigid linear viewing to tailored on-demand preferences. Clearly, there has been a shift in content consumption, from traditional broadcasting to an endless…

As digital technology continues to develop, nonlinear characteristics have brought about tremendous changes in cultural production, especially in terms of audience participation and interactive experience. The role of the audience has changed from passive recipients to active participants. This change has not only changed the way content is consumed, but also reshaped the ecology of…

Nowadays, the emergence of Trans TV is in part one of the reasons for this important intervention into the changes in the contemporary television industry, stressing that these changes should be thought of together, especially in the discussion of technological changes in the industry, and that aesthetic changes cannot be separated from television programmes and…

Shaviro (2016) suggests we have reached a new ‘cultural technological’ system of post- cinema which is heavily influenced by techniques such as editing, special effects, simulation and morph. These techniques break the boundaries of experience in cinema, creating experiences of hyper-realities creating feelings and experiences such as hallucinatory and dreamlike imagery. I will focus on…

Post-Cinema constructs a new structure of feeling where affect is the driving force of films. Post-cinematic affect is theorized by Shaviro (2010) who suggests affect is a kind of emotional and sensory experience connected to the contemporary media-saturised environments we are surrounded by. Whilst both emotion and affect are connected it’s important to establish the…

The digital transformation of cinema and television has been intrinsically linked and often been in parallel to the transformation of western capitalist society and culture. Using terms such as ‘new media’ can be misleading when discussing the transformation of cinema and television as it suggests there are no connections between contemporary and classical aesthetics of…

As we all know, Netflix has established itself as a transnational broadcaster and boasts a range of well-known television series alongside their own productions. One of the things Netflix are most known for however, has to be the trend of sitting down on your sofa, and watching hours of the same show well into the…

Streaming services such as Netflix have changed the way that everyone views films and different content from the comfort of their homes and on their own devices. Since the start of Netflix, television and cinema have undergone a dramatic shift. The biggest examples was ‘Squid Game’ a South Korean series that became Netflix’s most-watched show…

Credit: “Squid Game Profile” by Rotten Tomatoes The “Long Tail” model is a phrase coined by businessman Chris Anderson to describe that when streaming platforms release a series that becomes instantly successful, it can establish a large enough fanbase for the show to the point where plenty more seasons and even spin-offs can be created…

The depiction of queer and trans characters within the era of platforms and portals changes drastically from the way diversity is seen in broadcast and linear television. In the series Sense8 (2015-2019), there are not only a variety of international identities but there are also many queer characters. The series follows a group of strangers,…