Digital Audiovisual Media Class Blog

With the transformation of Netflix, traditional gatekeeping practices regulating mass media production, including film and television, are broken up; original shows acquired millions of investments. Notably, the diversity of the directors’ groups has become remarkable, including women, people with couloir and other minority groups often sidelined in the industry. It has been argued that “the…

Technology has altered television production and consumption in the fourth stage. According to Amanda Lotz (2017), three main advancements made it possible: technological convenience, which allows viewers to decide where, when, and how to watch programmes through accessibility on different devices; mobile television, which allows viewers to control viewing; and theatricality, which refers to the…

Post-continuity is a phrase used to describe a filming method that has grown popular in action films. According to Steven Shaviro (Denson & Leyda 2016), an obsession with instant impacts overcomes any concern for larger continuity. In other words, gunfights, martial arts bouts, and vehicle chases are shown using shaky handheld cameras, extreme or even…

Affect is fundamental, non-conscious, asubjective or presubjective, assignifying, unqualified, and intense, says Steven Shaviro (Denson & Leyda, 2016). Recent cinema and video works portray an ambient, free-floating mentality that pervades the modern culture, even though it has no clear subject. Symptomatic and productive, they’re expressive. Symptomatic works transduce, condense, and rearticulate complex social processes as…

Avatar (2009) is one of the most epic science fiction films of all time. It is the highest-grossing film in film history, with over $ 2.9 billion US Dollars box office, surpassing the most-grossing movie at the time Titanic (1997). Moreover, it is also the first movie made entirely using new motion capture filming techniques…

The most impressive thing about MUSIC VIDEO this week from my perspective is the spirit of the freedom of expression. Learning the history from MTV to music videos on various social platforms, I feel that the current development of aesthetics and technology has allowed people to enjoy the maximum display of creativity. It seems that…

Netflix recently released the fifth season of The Crown on November 9, and so far The Crown’s ranked second among Netflix’s TV Programmes. The Crown is a television series produced for Netflix by two British and American film and television companies, Left Bank Pictures and Sony Pictures Television Inc. The series follows the story of…

Through the years technology has improved and changed the way we see all aspects of life, including film. The evolution of cinema has allowed us to see movies from a different perspective, until reaching what is known today as digital cinema, which is also linked to the desire to simulate reality extremely, becoming almost hyperrealism.…

As recent technological innovations have fundamentally challenged normative definitions of television and its ‘identity’, similar trend can be found from the increasing representation of LGBTQ characters in TV series that encourages audience to queer or challenge traditional knowledges about sexualities and identities. It should be noticed that the new affordances of Internet distributed platforms also…