Digital Audiovisual Media Class Blog

Written by: Kaja Sunde We have all seen it: fast-phased editing, framing too close for most people’s normal manners, and licentious camera movements. It has become the golden ticket of the 21st-century era of action films, the chaos consuming the most important parts of the cinematic experience. But what is really chaos cinema, and what…

With the spread of digital media these years, both the production model and consumption behavior has been experiencing transaction in the television industry. This leads to many studies start to challenging the way we understand television and drawing attention on the impact brought by such transaction. Therefore, I would like to focus on the concept…

Stork says chaos cinema is a never-ending crescendo of flair and spectacle. I agree with this expression, but that doesn’t detract from the fact that it is valid in certain circumstances. When what was once a spectacle now abounds, there is a natural need for more adrenaline. Older action-editing styles are more the product of…

It has long been suggested that music plays an essential role in films. This blog analyses the extended function of music in the fanvid’s works. Fanvid, which means fans-made video, is a kind of rewritten work, a short video integrated with chosen pop songs and a particular scene in the source film. (Turk, 2001)  It…

From the inception of MTV in 1981 to the present, defining what is a music video and what is not has become difficult to delineate (Vernallis, 2013). Prior to the Internet era, music videos required traditional post-production – studios, production teams, lighting, special effects, etc. – and could only be viewed on a few satellite…

With the development of digital technology, streaming digital platforms like Netflix changed contemporary television forms. This may suggest that Internet-distributed television seems more diverse in terms of content creation, and themes of minority cultures, such as transgressive, transgender and queer, can appear in television series. So, the concept of Trans TV is proposed to analyze…

A review of Nam June Paik and the reproduction of his aesthetics in current Korean Pop Music videos. In the middle of the 1960s, video art emerged as a new media art. Known as the ‘father of video art’, Nam June Paik is a multimedia artist and an influential member of Fluxus. He experimented extensively with video…

“The contemporary experience of television reception is becoming more personal, ephemeral, mobile and instant than ever before” (Rustad, 2018) As Rustad says, the contemporary television era is not just about new ways of producing, distributing and consuming television, it is also about repositioning the television experience. Take the Chinese TV drama industry as an example,…

The music video industry has changed through the years, we jump from music television like MTV to social media and digital platforms like YouTube. Now, artist not only creates their music videos for digital platforms but also upload lyric videos to their new songs, and in some cases, they release the full album simultaneously on…