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Media & Design Context, semester II.


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Week 13 note-taking : how to write an essay

General Pointers

Make intentions clear in opening paragragh. 


Say what you're going to say (intro) , say it, (in detail- main body) and say it again (conclusion). 

Spell check

Proof read- get someone else to read through it too. 

Any points need to be supported and backed up by facts and references. 

Any images need to be placed where relevant in text, and annotated and referenced. 

READ THE BRIEF!! - respond to that. Be aware of where the brief wants you to take references from (reader/external/both)

Compare and contrast artworks or peices used in writing- provide arguments for and against your chosen subject.

Introductions- give general points of what is to come but also specify subject for essay. 

Wider range of sources helps you to write but also provides a richer reading experience. 

History and contextual info helps add depth to a piece of writing and is more interesting and keeps reader hooked. 

Bring each point back to the brief and/or relevant text. Focus your writing. 


Reasonably well written with general spelling and grammar mistakes.
Conclusion was concise
Could include more oppositional viewpoints
Contrasting opinions

 - Peer to peer
No errors, referencing correct
100/100
Better introduction paragraph
No gradual set up into the essay

- Free software essay
Grammar mistakes
First paragraph not well structured
Spell checker


week 14.  feudalism to 20th century


Britain was primarily an agriculture society up until the 20th century.

Capitalism:
- mode of economy and production / politics of today
- a society that revolves around, money, wages, markets, investment.
(not new ideas but intensified by the rise of capitalism)
- commodities - produced to be exchanged in the market - sell and buy.
- labour is now a commodity - you offer it on a market.
- accumulation of wealth - profits go to owners and investors - workers recieve what's not profit.
- before now one of the only ways to accumulate wealth was through war - not an open market. 
- shareholder capitalism - companies are run to make profits for their shareholders (while paying employees a fair wage and selling a product (or multiple products)
- money gains a primary use in society. 
- criminalisation through previous methods.

industrialization can cause an over-produced product with not enough customers to sell them to - Britain colonised with multiple countries and therefore widened their market. 

Feudalism


Putting out system / cottage industry

Commons

Factories


Of the Division of Labour - Adam Smith (reader pg80)

What is Adam Smith proposing?

How might his proposals be critiqued?

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Week 14: Choosing a case study company

Aardman (http://www.aardman.com/)
-cartoony animation / interactive media
-aimed largely towards children

Anagram (http://weareanagram.co.uk/about/)
-interactive art installations ("immersive experiences")
-playful & poetic, considering societal / meaning of life kinds of stuff

Auroch (http://www.aurochdigital.com/games/)
-strategy desktop video games, often political


Bristol VR Lab (https://bristolvrlab) - Bristol VR Lab is a new space for research, development, product design, teaching, company incubation and investment within Virtual and Augmented Reality that will open in central Bristol

Calling The Shots (www.callingtheshots.co.uk) - Calling the Shots is a Bristol based production company, offering video production, training and events across the UK.

Calvium (www.calvium.com) - Calvium | Intelligent Mobile App Development Bristol | iPhone, Android | Award Winning. intelligent mobile apps that are solidly engineered and beautifully designed...

Clowckwise Media (www.clockwisemedia.com) - We make ideas move. We're a progressive production company offering a comprehensive range of film and video services. We specialise in video production and film making for music, fashion and sports, and have a wealth of knowledge in other industries too.

Play nicely - design agency - digital campaigns using VR, 360 and other modern additions to creative agencies.
Red Central - media design company - specialise in graphic design, adveritising, promotion etc. 
Opposable Games - Games - Develop video games for specific clients (Unity and VR)

Sugar Creative (http://www.sugarcs.com/about/)

help businesses send out a clear message through design
 website, mobile app, brochure or campaign can help to convey your message

Uncoated Design (http://www.uncoateddesign.co.uk/)

-print and digital design (Web Design) agency with foundations based on intelligent creative work
-building strong client relationships. 
-Branding

VRGo (http://www.vrgochair.com/getting-started.html#sit)

Chair design that perform VR function for you to move around.
Multiple products for VR
Developer: Produce games compatible for VRGo 
LIMINA: VR PRODUCTION

MATTER 2 MEDIA: TECHNOLOGIES FOR COLLECTIVITY, 

MEINECK STUDIO: DESIGN FOR CHARITIES

Rocket Media - Print and graphic design company

Slingshot media - Theathre production company

Sugar creatives - Buisness and digital development company

Hurricaine Media
A video production company that aims to create engaging media content for it's clients. 

E3-  A company that aims to allow clients to interactive with their customers in a way that achieves long term growth...

Films@59
A pre and post prodution company, with services such as camera hire.
Their aim is to provide prodcution teams what they need in order to fulfill their creative ambitions. 

Clockwise media
Clockwise media is a progressive production company with offices in Bristol and London. 
They specialise in video production and film making for Music, fashion and sports.



week 15 age of the machines

Walter Benjamin- (1936)
-It is a primary text because Benjamin talks about his experience in 1936.  
-he also talks about readers becoming writers 
- original copies are real and have more value (e.g Mona Lisa painting) people go to see the original peice because of how much value and importance it has.
- Benjamin mentions that copies may get a wider reach than the original. 
- Mass production was only just becoming a thing at the time of writing.
- Innovations such as the camera were allowing auidences to get closer to different enviornments.

Jhon Hesket(1980)
-Americans were supplying products to the Europeans as they were more experienced and educated
-people moved from working in houses to work in factories in the cities,this was to speed things up
-labour became mobile
-it was better to have someone who was more experienced to make the same product over and over agian as it would be much faster.
- The text uses guns as a main example of mass production. 
- The "American system describes the mass production of Firearms, starting with Eli Whitney's Muskets.
- Mentions Henry Ford, who started the "Production line" for the Ford model T (1908) which was the first mass produced car.
- Henry Ford aimed to make his cars cheap so that his workers could afford the cars, therfore creating a bigger market.

Paul Greenhalgh(1990)
-A list of features
.Technology, Theology,Transformation,Function,Abstraction etc.
- 3 most important things they were concerned about was architecture, furniture and graphics
-Wanted to get rid of historical designs and introduce new deisgns not only to make the place look nice however the modern designs were meant to "improve the conditions of the population"
- 3 most important things they were concerned about was architecture, furniture and graphics
- Discusses Modernism and design tec, and how society was moving away.
-  It mentions how people doing labour started to feel alienated which effected their pshycology.
- Takes local culture and makes it universal rather than local. (for the masses)
- Historical styles and tech was eliminated where possible, which is refered to as "Anti-historicism" and "Anti-Decoration", due to society taking a more "Scientific approach" than before.
- After WWII there was a recoil, that caused a lot of countries to look "Internationally" rather than locally.
-  There was a aim to make products available to the working class, so the target market would be expanded, and allow the workers to feel "happy".



Week 16 letters of approach




Week 17

Introduction and the sense of distinction, from distinction: A social critique of the judgement of taste - Pierre Bourdieu (1979)

- Bourdieu= sociologist (study of the human behaviour).
- cultural capital: non financial capital, social aspects required for a social life. Humans have different aspects that make them fit into different environment.


Image-Exhange and the Post-Mass Audience Age - Youngblood, G. (1970)
youngblood: kind of a fiction writer
- modern society is based on information
- synaesthetic cinema is multi-sensory
- there is a contrast between mass media and personal cinema/niche media
-he talks about the shift from hollywood big studios to easier ways of production.
-a person could build its own channel and be successful without relying on big companies.
- evolution of media has resulted in a change of culture

The wealth of networks: how social production transforms markets and freedom. Benkler, Y.

- Benkler discuesses who owns information and its econmoic worth
-decentralization of work
- Pre 19th century music was presence based, low capital investment and social.
-mechanical reproduction (20th century) -  recording studio makes decisions on tastes
-the audience buys the music and goes to concerts.
- Music has a global reach
- 21st century - introduction of new music based platforms e.g. soundcloud, spotify itunes etc.
low capital investments -  the producers are the makers.
information: non-rival good
- whats needed to create music in modern society - pre-existing information and culture, production and distribution is cheaper - means human communicative capacity is scarce
human capital - training knowledge and skills that raise your earning capacity over a life time.
-its not transferable (its what you learned)
- non-market production (indipendent production, doesnt go in the market)

Themes of semester 2:
-evolution of technology in the media production
- efficiency and productivity in work
-professional practice
-complexity of production
- how the role of the craftsmen has changed
-machine labour and design
-standardization
- mass production 
-international styles - modernism 
- user becoming the producer 'produser'
-culture capital
-human capital
- information/knowledge economy
-alienation of workers from their work
-division of labour

Interviewing:
informal -  talk freely
formal - pre-prepared questions
semi-strucutred interview -  list of topics and questions to ask (best way)

Factual questions 
Leading questions
thematic questions

include technical questions that relate to themes in other modules
try and find a quiet environment to carry out the interview
ask in advance if you can have a look around
remind them what the context of the interview is 
ask permission for recording (use recorder not your phone)
aim to be there for between 30 mins and 1 hour
check that recorder is functioning properly with earphones at the start of the interview

During interview:
dont over smile
dont make noises
eye contact, body language are essential
politely cut them off if what they start saying is irrelivant
dont go straight into the next question. pause a bit, dont rush
dont ask too many yes or no questions, otherwise you wont get enough material.

Week 18 


Post Capitalism
viewpoint of the future of Capitalism
Physical Resources vs information resources
Secondary text

University taught
Apply and gain knowledge from the ideas they learnt
instructions --> resources

relationship between work and information has changed -
apple is the biggest company by profits but but volume of sales.
paying more for design rather than manufacturing costs
Importance of knowledge over physical products: (Apple)
Questions to consider for interview
1.What is information doing to work?(day to day life of worth is understudied)
2. Why choosing Bristol as the place to base your business in?
3. How much do you benefits from the information engines?(Google)
Topics; 
1) Nature of work
2) Nature of infomation products


Benkler

- existing information and culture
- processing, manufactuing, distro
- human capabilities

Service Economy > resources
Culture -> importance to economies(raw material of economies instead of coal and oil)
80's decline of coal
90's creativity can be mined to become base of economy 
university increases human capital 
where does your private identity end and personal identity begin? your passions become part of the economy because its part of your skill set

intellectual property refers to creation of the mind. An idea for a book isnt  intellectual property but the words you've written are.

Week 21! The future of work



Presentation tips -
- Stick to the point - Don't ramble.
- People are struggling without Powerpoint (set structure).
- Good fo real life situations because you will never have Powerpoint to hand.
- Even without interview, people took information from the website and made a presentation with it.
- People didn't read from notes - only used them as prompts which was good.
- Try to be more specific e.g. include examples of your company's work.
- Follow through with your points, don't briefly touch on an interesting subject then move on.

The Rise of Machines (Love and Power) video -All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace
A 3 part BBC tv series covering the rise of machines in our culture. Intro consists of different scenes of the development of machines. 
In Silicon Valley California, new computer technology = heroic individuals.
In the 1970's nodes in the network will create a stable word although every individual is completely free to do whatever they like.
in the 1990's, a large 'seminar' with paddle on each seat and a large screen in front. Each paddle would show up on the screen and the room blew up with excitement.
They played a game of 'Pong' as a team - Red and Green - The creator believed that he created a new society in which there is no hierarchy as they must work as a team to play.
"They formed a subconcious concensus"

Mason - post capitalism (Reader Text)
Information is the core technology in our economy.
People work with consumption, relationships.
- Read up on the Cambridge Analytica story - 

The history of work is unexplored - Human Capital in the modern work place, how does it apply to your company?
Think through the theory and relate it in a system where it actually works.

ECHOBORG is a piece of theatre - The human is being scripted by the AI. The human is getting a script from the algorithm. 
Last day of June - Cube - you can see the performance. 

Read the links on blackboard "Links to UWE Writing tutorials"
Read the tab "How to succeed at university" - Feel free to use headings as they are that are on Blackboard. 
Methedology - NEEDS THIS.
combination of primary and secondary research - semi constructed interview - theory in texts. 
synopsis is required but don't use too much of the word count - a bit of context/overview/approach
Discussion is the MAIN point of interest for marks.