Digital Audiovisual Media Class Blog

The development in television media shows significant changes from past to present. Television transformed from one simple cable television with scheduled shows run to internet-distributed television. The internet-distributed television was first started from video on computers where it enabled audiences to watch videos from any location and devices. Like the name, it uses the internet…

With the shifting terrain of media, the shift from analog to digital technologies has affected production, exhibition, and consumption of media. This transition is explained by the term “New media” and can be seen in the transformation from traditional theater to VHS, DVD, CD, Blu-ray, and now online streaming, with it further developing CGI in…

This blog is a reflection of our readings and screenings of the fifth week. When we’re talking about the transformation of concept of television, especially in terms of aesthetic transformations of digital technologies and viewing practice of audiences, it is inevitable that we should consider the ways in which gender and trans themes are involved…

In Post cinema we have been shown the ability to create cinema with the help of technological advancements, I will be focusing on the art of cam cinema which I use to describe the use of web cameras or smartphone cameras in film, It is a genre of film which has taken its roots in…

Netflix attempted to become allies with the BLM movement after the murder of George Floyd by creating a new genre for its interface named Black Lives Matter, which aimed to…“only begin to tell the complex and layered stories about racial injustice and Blackness in America.” (Twitter, Netflix)  Netflix has created many black original series such…

With its on-demand content, Netflix has significantly transformed how consumers access and consume entertainment, eliminating the need for traditional cable or satellite TV services. All seasons of Stranger Things usually go live on the same day, allowing audience to watch the entire season at once without having to wait for a new episode each week,…

Despite watching the show Friends on cable television first, I feel more familiar with its presence on an OTT platform. I feel more comfortable ‘binging’ it on Netflix than watching limited episodes with constant advertisements at a fixed time on Comedy-Central.  By understanding that television content and television set are no longer intrinsically linked, Netflix…

Cinema has always been the forerunner of depicting AI and its untapped potential. The depiction of AI in film has preceded its actuality and has often led it to be portrayed in a dystopian-fantasy style. Futuristic universes, supernatural abilities and technological innovations are a few examples of dystopian AI. One of the first uses of…

In popular contemporary television, there is historically very little representation of trans or queer characters and narratives, with a sole focus on heteronormative males. Furthering this, when trans representations have featured, they have been, ‘closely tied to narrow and problematic depictions of gender non-conforming people as either dangerous psychopaths and sexual predators… or as victims…

Shaviro (2016) uses the term “post-cinema” to define the shift in the nature of audio-visual media as it transgresses the bounds of the traditional cinematic experience. This is achieved as the medium departs from the dominance of classical continuity editing to non-linear storytelling, fragmented narrative and techniques such as simulations embedded in film narratives. The…