Digital Audiovisual Media Class Blog

How Peep Show creates a  ‘Surreal Level Of Realism’ by applying Post-Cinematic Affect Steven Shaviro describes Post-Cinematic Affect as audiovisual media’s attempt to influence and control the emotions through new technology and techniques. The realism and emotional engagement that Peep Show achieves is not possible without modern conventions including digital cameras, editing software and voice…

What exactly is Netflix? A new TV? A new movie service? According to Mareike Jenner (2019), Netflix and other streaming services in the history of TV have shifted to a new paradigm in technology, content and marketing called TVⅣ. What does that mean? In the following, I would like to explain what Netflix and Stranger…

Netflix’s hit show Sex Education is well known for it’s gender and sexuality diversity, as well as the relatable way in which they approach potentially sensitive teenage topics. The show portrays a wide variety of identities, and has never been hesitant to touch on hard to manoeuvre topics such as sexual harassment, consent, identity crises,…

Figure 1 Figure 2 Figure 3 While watching the post-cinematic HD movie “District 9”, the viewers come across a low-resolution hand-held camera used in the shape of news reportage. The above scenes show similar footages, in which case, the camera itself seems to appear as a separate character with discoloured images. Why a separate character, because it seems…

‘Next episode in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1…’ Oops, it looks like we’ll just have to watch another episode as well. Netflix seeks to lull its viewers into an uninterrupted state of ‘one more episode’ to keep them going until they finish a season or an entire show, only to realize that they just watched…

https://youtu.be/HN4oydykJFc “While TVII is marked by certain technological advances and connected branding and programming strategies, what is signalled by Netflix and other VOD platforms exclusively available online is a move away from the television set. One significant marker of TVII is its move towards multi-platform forms of distribution and storytelling…” (Mareike, 2016) From this quotation,…

The global media industry is confronting an unpredictable transformation stage, which may derive from the development of technology to some extent, as Raymond Williams supposed, but over than it. It is not easy to pinpoint a specific media organization or conglomerate that dominates the wave because almost all influential media conglomerates actively engage the stream…

Post-cinema is a term used to describe the notion of ‘new media’ that emerged in the 21st century. It reflects both technological changes and stylistics shifts in sensibility and affect. New techniques found in post-cinema such as ‘chaos cinema’ , post- continuity editing and CGI do not only reflect the shift from an analogue process…

It is no secret that Netflix encourages binge-watching. MacDonald (2016, p.210) sums up this promotion in binge culture, stating that Netflix’s goal is to “encourage longer periods of viewer engagement”. In short: 8 clicks are more valuable to Netflix than 4; they’d rather you binge-watch an entire series than watch 4 movies back-to-back.  A prime…

According to Michael Goddard and Christopher Hogg (2018), new potentials of internet-distributed television and the emergence of new sexual identities have given way for an LGBTQ+ aesthetic– ‘Trans TV’ –in favour of ethnically and sexually diverse characters instead of toxic masculinity and heteronormativity. Heartstopper (2022) is a refreshing representation of Trans TV compared to mainstream…