Digital Audiovisual Media Class Blog

The duck song is by Bryant Oden, and is accompanied by an animated video. The song was uploaded to YouTube on March 23, 2009, and today has reached 561 million views. This animated piece of media should be considered an audiovisual assemblage. The duck song consists of a series of sounds and images grouped in…

Although Youtube success now signals being apart of the in-crowd, many Youtubers going on to attain mainstream success from traditional media, this was not always the case. 12 years ago, the video sharing platform and its biggest content contributors, were apart of an online space that often received external ridicule. Enter: Weezer, a band that…

In the past year or so, TikTok has become one of the most popular social media platforms. For those who are unfamiliar, TikTok is a phone app where people can watch short videos. These videos can be funny, creative, and/or musical. Many people use TikTok to lip-sync or dance to popular songs. Due to the…

In recent years, we have seen a sea change in how queer and trans people are represented in modern media. Shows like “Pose” and “Transparent” have brought the experiences of queer and trans people of color to the forefront, while movies like “The Danish Girl” and “Boy Erased” have helped to humanize the transgender experience…

I am going to use Central Cee’s song ‘Doja Cat’ as a media example which went globally viral on TikTok, where users created their own videos where they would dance to the chorus of the song. Many users were only introduced to the song via the TikTok platform and not YouTube. It could be argued…

In recent years, there has been a marked increase in the phenomenon of binge watching television shows. A term originally coined in the late 2000s, “binge watching” refers to the act of watching multiple episodes of a television show in quick succession. thanks to the advent of streaming services like Netflix and Hulu, which make…

In his 2010 book, Post Cinematic Affect, American author and critic Steven Shaviro talks abou the ways in which audiovisual technologies and techniques have changed over time, as well as the associated aesthetics and structures of feeling. This shift is not simply a matter of more rapid and non-linear forms of editing, or images being…

In 2018, Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum, a low-budget horror film, beat the $175 million sci-fi adventure Ready Player One to the box office in South Korea in its first week of release and became the second-highest-grossing horror film in the country. This result makes me wonder what makes Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum so successful and scary. First…

As cameras and technologies are developing fast, the ways of shooting a film get more progressive. Somehow, some movies and TV shows try to produce them using only sports cameras, iPhones, or even video cameras on laptops. Not only does this shooting method gives a mysterious vibe, but the uncertainty of the camera movement also…

Internet-distributed television has taken over visual audiovisual and presents audiences with progressive and evolving aesthetics. New audiovisual platforms, like Netflix, HBO and amazon prime have facilitated new aesthetics and representational practices in relation to sexuality, gender, and gender identity. as there are now “more spaces for the expression of diversity than had previously been the…