Digital Audiovisual Media Class Blog

Netflix and binge-viewing have become synonymous as the platform gave a way to access seasons of TV shows at once, creating binge-watching into a ‘mainstream’ practice for media enthusiasts (Jenner 2017). It became a common phrase within US media outlets in 2013 – with headlines in Forbes, Wired and The Atlantic. This rise in non-scheduled…

This blog is a reflection of our 4th lecture and screening. In this book Netflix and the Reinvention of Television, the author attempts to examine the role of Netflix in the re-invention of television and its impact on traditional industry structures. Specifically, it helps me to understand how Netflix, as a dominant challenger to linear…

In the 21st century, ‘on demand’ viewing has become one of the most popular practices in terms of television viewing patterns we see today. By ‘on demand’, I’m mainly referring to internet-distributed television such as Netflix, Amazon Prime, etc. which has been made popular through the elimination of “time specific viewing” and a “linear schedule”,…

This blog is a reflection of lectures and screenings in first two weeks. There is no clear-cut boundary between cinema and post-cinema, on the contrary, this kind of transformation follows the cinematic regime of the twentieth century. As a result, post-cinema challenges us to consider new media in the context of a continuing, erratic, and…

This is the blog for the reflection of lecture 4.  Internet Distributed Television, Netflix, as a representative of streaming television among others, has broken a lot of what has been agreed upon in this field. Below I will discuss Netflix’s impact on the television industry by the reforms that Netflix has made to change television…

In the ever-changing landscape of media and entertainment, the exponential rise of Netflix cannot be ignored: ‘Nine in ten 18-24-year-old adults bypass TV channels and head straight to streaming, on-demand and social video services when looking for something to watch, with Netflix the most common destination’ (OFCOM, 2022). With this popularity considered, a key question…

“New forms and new technical devices imply new possibilities of expression.” (Denson and Leyda, 2016) The shift from traditional film to digital cinema involves discussions on the change in realism and emergence of new image techniques. New cinematic approaches are evolving, such as intensified continuity and post-continuity, challenging classical editing rules. The emergence of a…

Steven Shaviro proposed that post-continuity cinema abandons the coherence of time and space in favor of a plethora of tactics and techniques. This indiscriminate mixing itself represents the aesthetics of post-continuity (Shaviro, 2010). In transmedia storytelling, the combination of language and media in an interactive environment challenges traditional narration (SCOLARI, 2009). After all, linear narrative seems to become…

Post-cinema refers to “the collection of media, and the mediation of life forms, that “follows” the broadly cinematic regime of the twentieth century—where “following” can mean either to succeed something as an alternative or to “follow suit” as a development or a response in kind”. Steven Shaviro, an American cultural critic, characterises post-cinematic media as…

” That is what you think interactive videos are going to be like, somebody going, “Is it going to be this door, or this door? Which one is it going to be?” We were keen so that it carries on beyond that point, that people carry on talking, the edit carries on going, it keeps cutting…