Dan Kerr
10313337

The Free Music Vlog began with two different yet equally important intentions: To uncover some of the best free and legal music resources available on the Internet, whilst informing about peer-to-peer filesharing and current copyright debates. These two intentions were closely related, as the phenomenon that is peer-to-peer filesharing was popularised by filesharing clients such as Napster, and it was debates over the legality of music sharing with Napster that spawned current copyright debates. By showing viewers where and how to find legal music online I hoped to entice people with the promise of something for nothing, and then cruelly trick them into learning something at the same time.

Critical Analysis
Natasha Chow

Vlogging with ACTNOW...is it really possible to change the world by vlogging?

Word Count: 1120

I started off my video blog wanting to make a difference in the world on a weekly basis and trying to connect each entry to ActNow. The underlying theme of my vlog is online activism and how the Internet, as a tool for organisation, mobilisation and communication can help to create “action” in the real world.

Unfortunately not everything went to plan. At first it was easy to do a weekly vlog post until I experienced some technical errors, with the iGeneration website going down I lost one of my vlog posts and had to repost it, which attracted inevitable re-editing. That, along with my impending honours dissertation due date, ended up shifting my vlog posts back a week...and then two...

Teodoro Rivera III
20109099

Word Count: 1104

Title: Teodoro Presents Kings Park-The Wonder/The Secret (We Are Not Alone!)

Synopsis of my Project:
North Americans Teodoro and Michelle set out to film a documentary on Kings Park to show family and friends back home.

Initial Aims:
As the creator, my initial aims were to create a cinema verite type film. I wanted my vlogs to have certain specific characteristics where it contained elements of a documentary by highlighting and introducing the attractions located within the confines of Kings Park as well as elements of a mockumentary/fictional documentary by introducing an aspect of storytelling. Examples of this type of storytelling come from such blockbuster films such as the Davinci Code and the Blair Witch Project.

Claire Bolto

Title:
MySpace Generation

Synopsis:
An investigation into how MySpace has transformed the Perth music scene, as a valuable networking and marketing tool for local musicians, and as an innovative way of breaking the boundary between band and fan.

Initial Aims of the Project:

One of the initial aims of my project was to locate a global phenomenon within the context of a small and isolated city, such as Perth. Preliminary research on the subject of MySpace found me reading studies and magazine articles from all over the world. Realising that this was a world wide obsession, and having witnessed the emerging popularity of MySpace among my own family and friends, I was compelling to investigate the significance of the phenomenon within Perth. In particular, my interest in the Perth music scene, lead me to focus specifically on the impact that the vast, social networking website had had on the local music scene.

Nurulsofya Mohammad Yusof
20187561

Word Count : 1,123

Film Exploits

Synopsis

Film Exploits its about me going around places in Perth to look for places to take picture of, to learn and trial digital photography techniques and to explore it in depth. It will be a new experience for me as I usually take pictures randomly and not for a purpose, unless of course it for recreational purposes.

Initial aims or ideas

Initially, my idea was simple and to me was not complex enough. But I wanted to make it work. I was really into photography but not in the sense where I was serious enough to take it professionally. I wanted to show people that photography is not so hard as you think. All you need is a camera and a sense of fun.

Hi Peter,

Sorry, but I deleted my powerpoint and my talk from my USB to make room for other assignments after I gave my talk! I didn't realise we were expected to post our talk on webct.

I presented in week five on Wikipedia, Collective Intelligence & Communal Authorship. My part of the talk addressed the benefits and pitfalls of collaborative media, in particular wikipedia. I hope this won't affect my mark! eek!

Claire Bolto

One Way Ticket:Intro
One Way Ticket:Episode 2
One Way Ticket:Episode 3
One Way Ticket:Episode 4
One Way Ticket:Episode 5
One Way Ticket:Episode 6
One Way Ticket:Episode 7

Anneke Forster
10313371

Word Count: 1,186

Title: Dangerous Addiction or Harmless Hobby?

SYNOPSIS:
My series of vlogs are mini documentaries which look at online computer games (MMORPGs), the players and addiction to these games. It is all very well reading the theory about online computer game addiction, but I wanted to hear the opinion of those who have or still are addicted.

INITIAL AIMS:
I really wanted to illustrate to people that online computer game addiction is a real thing and should be taken seriously. I have the general feeling that it is not yet a serious enough problem in society, especially in Australia, to warrant attention and support for those who are impacted by such an addiction.

A Critical Analysis on Paractirical Interfaces
By Christina Chau
(10209494)

A v(l)og..
experiments with writerly video and audio
lies between writing and the televisual
explores the proximate distance of words and moving media
is a video blog where video in a blog must be more than video in a blog.

-Adrian Miles

The vlogging phenomenon is currently in its early stages, so much that each creator contributes to the defining margins of the vlogosphere. The evolution of the practice is also relatively rapid thanks to the ‘information culture’ of the internet and the fact that electronic narratives are made by a participatory fan base. From this perspective vloggers are able to explore the medium and (re)trace mistakes more quickly so video blogging doesn’t have to be another web phase or as Adrian Miles notes, just be “a video in a blog”. Instead it has the potential to be a medium which explores the conventions and differences between older productions such as film and television as well as utilising new media paradigms.

Sam’s critical analysis – Graffiti

Is graffiti art or vandalism?

Synopsis

As I mentioned in the beginning of the project, myself and Rommy trying to explore and exposed the “hidden treasure” of street arts in Perth. I thought that the street arts in Perth area was not given enough recognition either by the public or by the authority compared to other big cities like New York, Chicago, Los Angeles or even in Melbourne or Brisbane in Australia. Freedom of expression is human liberty, but taking it to the streets or public property might be perceived as vandalism or art crimes. How human express themselves may varies from one individual to another. Either they express themselves through singing, crying, painting, how they dress or even how they talk and all other sorts of human expression. However, some might choose to express themselves by doing scratches, spray or paint on the public space like wall buildings, bus stop, toilets, trains, busses and others. This is what we called graffiti or street arts. Graffiti art meets you on the street where you live. Depending on its content, it may be designed to elicit shock, anger, amusement, joy, desire, or introspection. But graffiti art was written or drawn on-site by someone, often displaying great skill with spray paint or imagination in setting an incongruous scene into your environment, and is by its nature illicit; while graffiti styles and techniques may be exportable to the gallery, the civic mural, and even the artist's canvas.