Digital Audiovisual Media Class Blog

Building on the previous blog’s introduction to the concept of ‘Trans TV’ and the production of Euphoria’s (19-) transformation, I will analyze the Gen Z aesthetic created by Euphoria from more perspectives. Euphoria offers an aesthetically exciting viewing experience. Each character has a unique style and as a whole forms a fashion style that belongs…

In August this year, Love Between Fairy and Devil (Cang Lan Jue), an oriental mystery costume drama, dominated the front pages of many Chinese social media platforms, generating buzz across the Chinese internet and becoming a phenomenal drama. It also has an 8.5 rating on IMBd. The series was then released on Netflix, and 36…

    Media has always been a part of technology, and digital media is integral to society’s technology development. Although the platform YouTube is one of the most popular online video-sharing platforms, it has also created the opportunity for creatives and influencers to post and create content of which generates an income. The emergence of…

Skam – or Shame – tells the story of the students of the Hartwig-Nissens School in a fairly affluent, middle-class suburb of the capital Oslo. Her story is structured so that each season focuses on a different character from its large cast, telling their story only through their eyes. This structure serves to explore the…

Nowadays Cinematic experience in displaced conditions, the spectacle of cinema is also easily accessible in other contexts, such as TV series, VR games, and the burgeoning online video platform YouTube. But to satisfy the cinematic experience, Casetti (2015) says that seven elements are needed to achieve cinema assemblage: film, spectatorial practices, environment, symbolic instances, spectators…

  Since the collective viewing audience is primarily made up of the heteronormative Cisgender public, it is essential to understand the history of Trans representation in cinema and other media. Receptive viewers can gain a broader view of gender identity and gender expression. Amanda Lotz, the American author, emphasises the importance of a subscriber-funded model…

The emergence of the internet changed how we watch television, and technology has advanced to the point where we’ve thrown out the old immovable televisions and replaced them with Mobile/Portable televisions. In august 1997, Reed Hastings and his friend Marc Randolph founded the new movie-rental service called Netflix with the idea of mailing DVDs to…

The emergence of “New media” has preserved some aspects of older media while transforming them in some ways. The shift from analogue to digital technologies is significant in production, exhibition, and consumption. The digital cinema from the 70S/80S had multiple inventions leading to the innovation of the “new media”. But more specifically, the innovation of…

The music video shows post-cinema as more than visual effects but as new sound-image interactions. MTV “industrialized” the notion of visuals promoting music in the early 1980s. Technology innovations, cross-media authoring, and cross-media potential outcomes have transformed music videos since the 1980s. This produced a fruitful conflict in music videos between experimentation based on artistic…

Trans TV, the name of a Critical Studies in Television series (2018–2020), examined the presence of transgender, non-binary, and other queer individuals in a range of important television programmes. It’s part of television’s fourth stage’s transformation. Trans TV holds that technical revolutions of the industry cannot be separated from the creative modification of television programmes…