Digital Audiovisual Media Class Blog

The birth of post cinema in today’s twenty-first century gave rise to what Steven Shaviro identifies as affect, a realm within cinema solely based on evoking feeling.   Bordwell (1985), refers to the so-called Hollywood continuity editing, as a technique for building up a cohesive storyline, making it easy for the audience to understand. However, this…

With the most recent release of the blockbuster hit Wicked, many critics and audiences are applauding it for its widely decorated and diverse cast. Throughout film history, minorities have always struggled to be cast in main roles as well as roles that aren’t diminutive or require them to become a “token” character. Despite this, Wicked…

In the era of media giants like Netflix, Prime Video, and Hulu releasing shows almost every day, has the quality of TV diminished? As discussed in Jenner’s “Netflix and the Re-Invention of Television”(2013); Netflix has perfected the model of binge-watching with the optimization of their platform and user interface making it easier to skip the…

Tiktok evolved from YouTube, or in other words, short form videos evolved from YouTube videos (that are slightly longer mostly from twenty minutes to more than an hour). This reflects that most of the media consumers’ attention spend are shortening. Rather than sitting there for twenty minutes to get the whole point of a video,…

The existence of digital media gave people who watch music videos on television a bridge to connect with music in their own way. MTV for example does not provide a accessible space for viewers to engage with the music video or create their own understanding to the music. It is more passive since the way…

The last show I have binge watched is Hunter x Hunter. It is not specifically a Netflix show but is it an anime that is available on Netflix. It contains 148 episodes around 20 minutes each, in total of around 52 hours. The show started in 2011 and ended 2014, and was originally release on…

Post continuity is where continuity is not the pillar for organizing a plot, and is either through editing, non-linear structures, and fragmented story telling. Related to my previous blog that mentioned Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, the idea of combining video games and movie images was brought up and one of the main contributions to…

When I watched Detention (2011), it reminded me of Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (2010), mostly because of the visual effects, and the “game like structure”. Both films explore this science fiction story that takes place around young adolescences. Scoot Pilgrim vs. The World (2010), however, leans more to this beat’em up gameplay like storytelling.…

Today, Youtube looks, feels, and works MUCH differently from what it looked when it first started out as a video site where anyone could upload any kind of video content. As discussed in Versailles’ article “Unruly Media: Youtube, Music, and the new digital”(2013); Youtube used to behave much differently than it does today and that…

Post Cinematic effect is the influence of the new digital world on the Cinema. As discovered by Steven Shaviro (2010) how digitalization impacted cinema with new digital technologies,  economic globalization and financialization. The Post Cinematic Affect has influenced  in the transition of storytelling, script writing, movie making and the special effects used in making the…