I'm Emily, and this semester I'm studying this class (duh), World History, Chinese and Intro to Social Enterprise. I'm torn between majoring in Film & Screen or History... hopefully by the end of the year I'll have made up my mind. I think I'll try and tailor this blog to suit my Film & Screen interests.
One blog that I really like is www.themovieblog.com. They not only review films, but also posters and trailers relating to upcoming films. They also highlight different film events, for example the Comic Con that just passed. The website is honest but not cruel (like gossip website www.perezhilton.com).
I think I'll be able to use this website as inspiration for reviewing actual films, which is something I've always been interested in as I love writing as well. On my blog I think I want to try and relate the knowledge on communication technology that I gain this semester to films, film artwork and trailers that I come across. As I don't get to the cinemas too often (blame my Centrelink budget), I'll try and relate older films to communication technology as well.
To finish up this weeks lecture we were given our Tute Spark. How do we distinguish between old and new communication technologies? Under what circumstances will new communication technologies become old communication technologies? I think new technology becomes old technology when something is developed that can replace the previously 'new' technology. This applies to telling the difference between old and new technologies I think. Something is new technology, in my mind, if there is nothing else available that is it's equal or more advanced. Analog TV got replaced by digital, and now we can even watch TV on our computers. Landline phones were replaced by mobile phones, and now our computers offer Skype. To relate it back to hisory and film, I though of the film Casablanca. It is said that in the end of the movie the airplane in the background wasn't real. It was a fake, small airplane with midgets working on it to give the impression that it was further away than it actually was. Now they can just pop in some computer generated airplane and it's all good!
Happy blogging,
Emily
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