3 Minute Video

This is my three minute video. It shows how i clean my fish tank. It is a task i have to perform quite often. The song i chose to put in the background is called Penelope by Saosin which is about one of the band members fish. I felt that the song fitted well.

This is my first one minute still image movie. It is simple and involves a beer bong (a funnel attached to a hose with a tap on the end) which helps you skull your drinks. The photos are taken at a 70's party that I went to on the weekend. I hope it is acceptable.

Lecture Review Week 8

This weeks topic is called CyberPolitics and eDemocracy. Basically CyberPolitics are politics which are on the internet. Cyberpolitics can come in many different levels. they can be as little as political activities which are seen in games and chat sites through to the people who actually control the structure and functions of the internet. In saying this eDemocracy is to do with real world politics but is the internets contribution. eDemocracy does this by showing political campaigning and by having political websites and so on.

moving on i would like to just mention my still images movies. I know they are not the best movies but it is hard to take so many pictures when you are so busy. I feel that my 'Cleaning My Fish Tank' movie wasn't too bad as it is a task that i have to do often and the song that i put in the background of it is about a fish. It is the three minute movie and extensively shows how i clean my fish tank. My one minute still image movie isn't so good. It is from a 70's party I was at on the weekend but it is what i am constantly doing on the weekends. I hope they are up to standard.

Lecture Review - Week 7

This week the topic for New Communication Technologies is free society free culture and Creative Commons. The lecturer states that there are three key words when considering this topic; community, collaboration and choice. The website creativecommons.org began in December of 2002. This non-profite organisation set out to promote reasonable copyright. Creative Commons allows standard licences and tools to be availible which enable creators to create their works easier. This organisation also allows creators to have 'some rights reserved' instead of 'all rights reserved'. Every creator is allowed a choise of one of three options when considering copying and distributing work. These three options are; NonCommercial, No Derivatives and ShareAlike.

Moving on, Free and Open Software started the movement to voluntarily relax copyright laws. Software is run by a thing called a source code. A source code tells a computer what to do by using programming languages. Software has always been free which allowed anyone to share and use the source code. This idea of free software first came to light when a man called Richard M stallman began the Free Software Foundation in 1981. Stallman aimed to create a system that was made up of free software. Stallman also created four principles when dealing with free software:
1) The freedom to run the program, for any purpose.
2) The freedom to study how the programs works, and adapt it to your needs.
3) The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbour.
4) The freedom to improve the program, and release your improvements to the public, so that the whole community benefits.

Lecture Review Week 6

This week was about consumption and production. Within consumption there are two groups; big screen and small screen. Cinema is an obvious big screen as it is the first way of consuming media. it is a primary way of consuming media as well as being in a publicly shared place. The television is also categorised in the big screen group. Instead of being in a publicly shared place, the television is shared within the home as well as having the ability to be watched privately. A personal computer is also included in big screen consumption. it also is able to have private and shared media consumption.

Moving on, the small screen includes; fixed media players and personal media players. fixed media players can be found almost anywhere nowadays. They can be found on most planes and cars as well as being through out shops and pubs and various other locations. Fixed media players are both publicly and privately consumed. Personal media players as also publicly and privately consumed . An example of a personal media player is a mobile phone.

Production is also a big topic with the media. Fan Films are becoming more popular as they allow fans to edit parts or ending of movies to how they would prefer. Mash ups are also popular as fans pick small clips out of different movies to change them into a totally different genre. In the lecture we watched a mash up that was based on Mary Poppins. The creator changed the title to 'Scary Mary' and chose parts out of the movie which make the movie appear to be scary. I found both the fan films and the mash ups to be really entertaining and I also thought it was good to allow fans to put their own spin on movies.