Nora’s Story: How Multimedia Compliments Journalism

In mid-October of 2017 news organisation, The Oregonian posted the first chapter of the five-part series; “The Loneliest Polar Bear”. Written and directed by Kale Williams and Dave Killen, the story documented the raising of the polar bear cub, Nora, at Columbus zoo, Ohio, up to her current life. The story significantly incorporated photo, video, interactivity and encouraged social […]

BCM114 Tweets (#3)

Contextual Essay

My plan for my Digital Artefact was always for it to be a YouTube channel. I Knew from the beginning of the semester that I wanted to make some form of commentary channel but wasn’t sure what yet. By the end of the semester, my DA was planned out to be a commentary channel focused on niche […]

Online Presence 3

I think that it’s safe to admit at this point that my DA is somewhat of a failure at this point. After months of talking about ideas that I have for my channel in my blogs and pitches, I only have one video up on my channel. So what happened? Well, I believe that my […]

Forgotten history – JRNL 102

The Illawarra Museum, situated on Market street was initially erected as the local post and telegraph office over 150 years ago, only being transformed into a museum in late in the year of 1966. But as the Museum focuses on the local history of Wollongong, as well as multiple smaller reasons, it doesn’t garner as […]

BCM114 Tweets (Round 2)

Online Presence 2

Since my last online presence post, there has only been minimal progress on my Digital Artefact. I have only been able to post one video to my YouTube channel, and so the channel itself also hasn’t grown much. The few videos that I have made have had to be kept very low production. They’ve all been […]

Beta Blog

Unfortunately, my DA hasn’t progressed too much since my online presence. A personal family issue came up not long after uploading my OP1, and while I tried not to let it affect the making of my DA, any content I made ended not coming out the way I had wanted it. I didn’t feel comfortable […]

Online Presence 1

As soon as this class began, I decided that for my DA I would make a YouTube channel of some kind. I’ve been a fan of YouTube for a long time, and I’m a very visual person, and so making videos is the most appealing to me. The only problem then was deciding on what […]

Iggy Azalea and hip hop appropriation

In the 1970s, the music genre hip hop emerged as a creative outlet and response to violence, poverty, racism and social neglect of minorities. Social justice and community were highly valued and helped to bring attention to the discrimination and struggles of the oppressed lower class. This led to hip hop becoming embedded in black culture, with […]