Digital Audiovisual Media Class Blog

– Red Burgess – The relocation of the televisual experience into more personal spheres of social operation, such as phones, laptops, and other personal devices, reflects that the contemporary era of television is controlled more by the individual than ever. As Guy Rustad highlights, ““In similar ways to how daytime programming adapted to the flow…

The Truman Show is a film starring Jim Carrey where he plays a man who has grown up his whole life in a fictionalised set of a TV show that he is not aware of, with cameras, adverts and characters all intertwined to create entertainment for viewers. Plato’s Cave Theory and the idea of the…

Janelle Monáe’s album ‘Dirty Computer’ is a record that will go down as a milestone not just as a work of art in its own right, but as the perfect celebration of queerness, female power, and self-worth. (Connor, 2018) In the album’s eponymous movie, Monáe’s role as Jane, robot number 57821, goes from being presented…

In mainstream music videos, which have long been dominated by men, there is always an attempt to promote overt, regressive female characteristics. This criticized tradition has been vigorously corrected after feminism entered mainstream culture with great fanfare. Artists may play with stereotypes or subvert them to make a statement, Music videos often reinforce or challenge…

The convergence of digital aesthetics, representation, and music videos is the focal point of an analysis of the intricate dynamics of race, gender, and sexuality in modern visual storytelling. According to Music video and the Politics of Representation, by Railton and Watson’s (2011), the music video has undergone a reassessment and is now acknowledged as a…

The advent of the digital media age has given rise to a new artistic medium: computer games. “The area of new media where the average computer user encountered AI in the 1990s was not, however, human-computer interface, but computer games. “(Manovich, 2002) Computer games are a typical example of “high-level” automation in new media creation,…

MTV debuted on the 1st August 1981 with the broadcast of “Video Killed the Radio Star” by the Buggles and “soon became a dominant mechanism for the promotion and circulation of popular music” (Arnold, Cookney, Fairclough & Goddard, 2017). Music videos back then were a tool for promoting, accompanying, or visualizing music. However, music videos…

In this post, I will only be discussing affect within movie trailers. I am adhering to Brian Massumi’s definition of affect vs emotion. For Massumi, “affect is primary, non-conscious, asubjective or presubjective, asignifying, unqualified and intensive; while emotion is derivative, conscious, qualified and meaningful, a ‘content’ that can be attributed to an already-constituted subject.” (Massumi,…

With the rise of technology, past music videos have been able to come alive in the social media age due to apps such as YouTube and TikTok making them more accessible than ever, becoming a meme can be rewarding, with the ability to edit in a moment’s notice, art can now take on a different…