Blog 2

Lecture

Screening of alphaville

1. General Overview
   
2. Issues surrounding authoritarian ruler (in the form of artificial intelligence), alpha 60.
3. Ivan Johnson (later introduced as Lemmy Caution)as detective from the outlands.
4. Killed for thinking illogically (weeping due to a death), emotionally.
5. Bible is a dictionary with words missing ie : why, love
6. Questioning is opposing alpha 60 therefore treason

In my view alphaville would have been a real mind boggling movie when it came out in 1965, as none of the technologies we have today were around then. In this age with so many computers and how we are influenced by them ,the thought of being governed / dictated by one giant computer seems more of a possiblty than in 1965. The concept is a masterpiece in the fact that if there were a logically thinking computer it would banish certain words that are not logical to it. Its not entirely clear on how Alpha 60 monitors the civillians but it is clear that when caught thinking free or emotionally you are punished severly.

Readings on alphaville

New wave French Cinema

1. French New Wave cinema came not long after world war 2 as a result of the post war harmony sort of style .


2. Peaked during 1958- 1964


3. according to Alexander Astruc it was to break free of the tyrrany of narrative(common types of film before new wave)


4. It therfore reject the classical montage style that filmmakers were using pre-new wave


5. It is very personal work.

Glossary

1. Diegesis-fictional world created for film or tv; middle earth, wild west


2. Soundscape-whole soumd enviroment


3. Timbre-harsh or soothing sounds


4. Diegetic-noises in a fictional world


5. *Camera shots (follow bullets below numbering)


6. Camera movement- pan; rotate sideways/tilt;up or down/roll; rotates on own axis
   

• extreme close up


• medium close up


• close up


• long shots


• medium long shots


• extreme long

Writer and director- Jean Luc Godard (formerly a film critic)

Actors: Eddie Constantine-Lemmy Coution

Karina Anna-Natascha

Date released: 5 may 1965

Plot keywords:

1. Forbidden Speech


2. Public execution


3. Violence(absurd;gun)

Related movies

• The Matrix


• 2001 A Space Odyssey


• Twelve monkeys

Tutorial

Find at least four class mates' blog and add to blog roll is accomplished by finding the address of the page and simply adding an area in the layout for a blogroll with the persons found.

Also customized the blog by changing the sheme and colours of the fonts used.

Discussion on how alphaville is similar in a lot of its "predictions" to the current world we live in today and how we are dominated by the technologies we use ....eg the internet and e mail and even blogs(is it journalism or not and even if not it is percieved that way).

Again i leave you with a survey , hopefully people take the time to do the one simple question.....please!

Blog 1

New communication technology

READINGS
According to the handbook to blogging important issues are
*Privacy is essential when talking about subjects that might offend others - subjects like religion politsics, therfore other names or altar egos can be used
*Some countries ban certain web sites and blog types that make a mocary of the governmant

Important glossary

*Blog- Short for weblog ; is a website containing written material, links and photos by individuals , done on a personal basis
*Post-Items such as writting and photos are posted on
*Comment spam- Like e mail spam but on the blog page spambots appear.
*Blogosphere-All blogs or the blogging community
*Blogware- Software used to create blogs
*Content syndication-How a sites author makes all or parts of its content availible to another site



LECTURE

Is e mail dead . according to class survey
*e mail amoung the new communication tech class is not dead as majority use it daily
*e mail in is less important for teens in America
*e mail futher less important for adults in America

Problems with e mail are:
*Spam- usually unwanted e mails about products ; often things like penis enlargers.
*Phishing- recieving e mails regarding you sending your banking details over the net eg: the nigerian scams and the bank scams with valid letter heads.
*NOTE: NEVER GIVE BANKING DETAILS OVER THE NET.

*Daily show with Jon Stewert and Steven Colbert

As shown on the daily show quesions raised about the bloggers being regared as journalists
*Do journalists have to have ethics ?
*Do bloggers need to utilise certain ethics?
*Are bloggers journalists ?
*Are bloggers sources accurate?

TUTORIAL

Blogs are essentially just personal home pages that are updated as often as you like.
Blogs can be used as diary, political journal or web portals.
Posts on myspace are considered blogs however this class the blog is our site as a whole.

Practiced blogging
*Learnt to set up a web blog @ bloggers.com
*Emphasized Importance on correctly saving work either on the university server or on a flash disk-often work can be lost on the net
*When saving on the server select: save as , student number is shown and allowed ammount in dollars shown.EASY!
*Mention made again of blogging in public with regards to privacy and ethics (of university)

Positives
· Free
· Easy to use
· Automatic saves
Negatives
· Automatic saves (if you have a problem it saves and original not retrieved)

Second life screening

*online world that uses its own currency called linden

*involves doing what you want as its lawless (according to some not for long)

*create a character and dance , sell things , talk to other even have online sex

*large companies invest . small companies too - lady sells virtual dresses, man sex shop , online realter