Digital Audiovisual Media Class Blog

This famous aesthetic/style was minimalistic and often belonged to Adele, even though MTV was all about visuals and creativity Adele managed to pull a British belter and hit MTV’s top song for 2011 (Montgomery, 2011). She created a pop song that used visuals to metaphorically portray her mind and her losing her mind, she represents…

How a wave of binge viewing was sparked through ‘season dumping’. Trailer Park Boys – (Netflix Originals) Season 8, Relaunch Poster Mareike Jenner, describes binge viewing as “a practice where several episodes of a serialised programme are watched on a medium other than linear television”. (Jenner, 2018) ‘Trailer Park Boys’ is a Canadian ‘mockumentary’ series…

Netflix’s successful show ‘Stranger Things’ released its fourth season this summer, and in known Netflix style they released many episodes at once, but this time they held back the two last episodes for a month. They released seven out of nine episodes, and the end of the seventh episode ended with a cliffhanger, to keep…

Music videos can be seen as a form of post-cinema, even though music videos are a form of advertising for the song, artist and record label etc, it is still an art-form where post cinema can be experimented in. However this introduces new ideas of post-cinema as its not just based on the new digital…

Defining TV in the Post-Network Era Violette Simard Thursday, November 17th 2022             With the rise of Netflix, the way television is produced, distributed, and consumed has drastically changed. In the post-network era that we are in, television seemed to have morphed into something else, and the lines between TV and film are blurring. However,…

This blog will be investigating the 2nd aesthetic is music videos and how this has manifested in present day music videos, particularly how music artists have started to utilize and hybridize music videos and film together in a more exaggerated manner.   To start off, let’s look more closely at what is the 2nd aesthetic?…

Post-Cinematic Affect (Shaviro and John Hunt Publishing, 2010) is derived from Massumi’s theory of affective movement (Massumi, 1995), loosely describing works in the context of an audiovisual control society, and attempts to move beyond Rodowick’s (2007) pessimism to construct a Noys-style accelerationist aesthetic. The first two chapters are on the organ-less body + Afrofuturism of…

Margot Robbie in a bubble bath is attention grabbing, that’s obvious enough. Her sudden and fourth wall breaking appearance in Adam Mckay’s The Big Short would likely be enough to pull your focus away from whatever secondary screen you may be scrolling on. What does an Australian actress sipping champagne have to do with the…

Michel Chion’s (cited in Vernallis,2013 p.9) puts forward the concept of value; where the image, in this case the music video, takes on the tone and characteristics of the music it’s accompanying.  Kanye West’s “Power” (2010) is a good example of this as the song is all about power and, as the chorus goes “no…

The latest season of Stranger Things continues to be released in two parts, a “very satisfying long binge mode experience” for long-awaited subscribers, as global production has had to be delayed in recent years in the context of the pandemic. While subscribers love this model, it is certainly one that has more pros than cons…