Digital Audiovisual Media Class Blog

Since MTV began in 1981 so much has changed and shifted within the music video field due to technological advancements, platforms and financial booms and busts. (Vernallis, C, 2013) Previously music videos were vetted before being broadcasted on MTV there were restrictions such as no alcohol, no production placement etc, however, with a shift in…

“Netflix has moved into territory that sets it apart from familiar structures of production, broadcasting or branding of television.”  I will use the show ‘Money Heist’ to demonstrate Netflix’s capital as an internet-distributed broadcaster. Money heist was created as ‘La Casa de Papel’ by Alex Pina and was initially aired in 2017 on the Spanish…

Youtube’s success as a platform for uploading user-generated content is certainly remarkable, and many Youtube specific subcultures and aesthetics have been birthed along with its immense success. Some predominant forms of Youtube media uploads include gameplay videos, reaction videos, and compilations. Due to this nature of splicing, splitting, and mixing around both found and created…

Daniela M. Schültz argues that the appropriation of literature fiction plays an essential role in Quality TV. (Schlütz, 2016, p. 101) For TV, the literary adaptation and auteur’s art cinema both carry an association of quality. There is no doubt that television Hannibal (since 2013) is a successful case adapted from one of the well-known horrible fiction–…

Post-Cinema is used to mean how media in the 21st century can help shape and reflect new forms of sensuality. Also, It is a continuation of, and at the same time a breakthrough for, the original form of cinema (Denson and Leyda, 2016). This term refers to the new idea of digital images, new cinematic…

In today’s digital era, the post-cinematic effect can also be observed in the music video industry, where some works no longer follow the traditional industry model of music television and there are more innovate practices begin to combine various media materials in one music video. One interesting case is Beyoncé’s “visual Album”, Lemonade, which originally…

Amidst the digital revolution, the expression of creativity is, by all means, no exception, as it has been reshaped by the technological and social means of the digital environment. Platforms such as YouTube allows users to share the process and results of their creative activities online. DIY videos may span a broad range of topics…

To live in the 21st century means that the world is moving faster than some years back in time. Audiences have changed and the culture of wanting everything fast and now is something predominant in our society. Especially in action films, new ways of editing, and creating different sensations in the public are some of…

The musical style of Boy Pablo, a Norwegian project that features chilling indie pop music, is rather consistent. In contrast to the stable musical style, the music videos of this band are rather diverse and experimental, consisting of multiple ways of aesthetic cinematography. In this blog post, I will mainly examine its 5-chapter cinematic album…

by Zhiqing Cao (ID:33722458) Reference Arnold, Gina, Daniel Cookney, Kirsty Fairclough-Isaacs, and Michael Goddard, Music/video Histories, Aesthetics, Media (New York: Bloomsbury Academic, (2017)