Digital Audiovisual Media Class Blog

YouTube, which was launched by Steve Chen, Jawed Karim and Chad Hurley in 2005, has become an important part of broadcasting these days. Even newspapers, television channels, companies, political parties and digital platforms such as Netflix, Disney+, Amazon have official accounts in order to reach the people. But what makes YouTube a bigger broadcasting platform…

When people think of MTV, they often remember the iconic videos of the 80’s and 90’s. They remember the first time they heard Michael Jackson, Madonna, or The Cure thanks to their music videos on MTV, and they have fond memories of sitting down with their families to watch these music videos on television. However,…

Figure 1 Transparent Movie Musical Finale Figure 2 Queer Eye for The Straight Guy Goddard and Hogg (2018) indicate that “Trans television” appears to be a potentially more queer representation of television. This approach can be seen in the American comedy-drama series “Transparent”, where Jeffrey Tambor (male actor) played the role of Maura. While Alexandra billings (Davina) performed the…

Martin Scorsese, a well-known film director, said of Marvel Studios films in an interview(Semlyen, N.D. , 2019). “But that’s not cinema. Honestly, the closest I can think of them, as well-made as they are, with actors doing the best they can under the circumstances, is theme parks.” I agree. It looks like a theme park.…

The visual appearance of this music video I’m not yours is roughly formed of two parts: narratives and dance. What is worthy of mention is that the plot borrows from one of the chuanqi (tales of wonder) in Taiping Guangji written by XueYusi, a literary genre of some real story of the early Tang dynasty of ancient China. It tells about…

The streaming platform has become an important tool for entertainment since it launched, and it also can be seen as a symbol in the post-network era. Amanda Lotz (2017) indicated that ‘internet-distributed television is by eliminating the necessity of time-specific viewing that internet distribution allows different logics that extricate it from many of the conventions that…

Nowadays, an official music release is accompanied by a specially produced music video, usually by the company or publisher of the music. The content of the music video varies according to the style and expression of the song. I am particularly interested in narrative songs and music videos, which are sometimes like microfilms, telling a…

Technology has enormously evolved the cinema industry, from the ways films are made, to how they are edited, and to the ways audiences watch them. In the recent 20 years or so, film production has been intensely transformed by the advancement and improvement of digital technology. Most mainstream shows are now shot on digital formats…

According to Lotz, the difference between a portal and a channel is that switching between a channel and its content does not change the user experience, whereas a portal video site can offer features that can differentiate the user experience. Mareike Jenner builds on Lotz’s point by adding that TVIV is a re-imagining process that…

21 pilots and the ‘never-ending’ music video https://twitter.com/twentyonepilots/status/1339294739749736448?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1339294739749736448%7Ctwgr%5Ea302a79cd00cf1069b460f986b55a92743eafca1%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kerrang.com%2Fheres-how-twenty-one-pilots-brought-their-never-ending-video-to-an-end%2F  “What is a music video? At one time we knew, but no longer; part of the change has to do with media context.” (Carol Vernallis, 2013, p. 208) Music videos didn’t originally begin with MTV, but MTV is what made it into what it is today, but…