Digital Audiovisual Media Class Blog

Following the success of Kubrick’s 2001: a Space Odyssey and the launch of NASA’s Apollo mission, a young David Bowie would craft his first character of many: ‘Major Tom‘. This would consequently lead him to create a music video to accompany the 1969 song Space Oddity, which accounts the fictional astronaut being stranded in space.…

Since the digital age filmmakers have debated the use of digital or film and whether or not digital is killing the art form. My opinion is that they can both be used for different explorations and simultaneously to create captivating storytelling. Arguably, the use of post-cinema techniques could devalue the filmmakers who use traditional film,…

Because of the popularity and development of digital technology and internet-distributed television, the last few years have seen a dramatic change in the production, distribution and consumption of television. There has been a gradual shift from linear to non-linear viewing. At the same time, because the production of television is no longer constrained by the…

The emergence of new digital technologies has changed how viewers consume entertainment content. For many years, people had to plan their viewing according to a schedule set by the network. These linear schedules had to meet requirements – the length, flow, and demand for weekly episodes. When VCR, DVR, and DVD access became available, choosing…

Steven Shaviro concludes the sound function, instead of serving as a supplement to the image, the sound itself becomes visual. The shift mainly comes from the advancing technology to improve media evolution, with audiences being served with new equilibriums in sensorial experiences. Chion argues that it is because cutting-edge digital devices extend our physical body,…

Modes of production in television has changed in the production, distribution and consumption due to the implementation of digital technologies and streaming services. These technological transformations in contemporary television not only changes the way of distribution, consumption, scheduling and audiences but also caused an aesthetic transformation in both ‘ televisual programmes and the televisual experiences…

In a digital audiovisual era, simply passing on feelings through audio is not enough. Singers and artists usually make music videos for their music to enhance the emotions of the topic of their work. Therefore it is a sophisticated work to simulate the framing, art design, camera movement, visual effects and many other details to…

Driven by technological development, the television industry has been through a revolutionary post-network shift over the past few decades, in terms of both consumption and production. This post will discuss this substantial change in the audience experience and industrial pattern, with the example of Netflix. Netflix is a streaming platform providing worldwide subscription service, from…

A new contemporary definition in the industry was forged BASED on this series’ construction. Breaking bad is one of the biggest shows on Netflix and helped its rise, this is because of a new strategy of binge-providing series, whole seasons were provided, and people binged this series, I had binged this series from beginning to…

Steven Shaviro (2010) notes how the film ‘Southland Tales’ (2008) “bathes” us in a multitude of multimedia sources. For example, the opening scene depicting the start of WW3 is shown as home-video footage, while the recap of the last 3 years before the film’s events is told through a series of news feeds. This abundance…