Articles: The Media Landscape

Welcome to the Culture Industry.

This article explores the understanding of the Culture Industry, the key theorists and how the culture industry works to conform to the capitalist system. Sitting within the capitalist system there are factors that maintain the survival of the Culture industry and its economic viability. I will also address the means of reproduction […]

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Post Modernism & The Plurality of Meaning.

Cover image VIA Postmodernism is a cultural phenomena that arose during the 1950’s and 1960’s. In western democratic societies, Post Modernism was influenced by popular culture and new technologies of reproduction that created new sensibilities that formed in response to these cultural shifts. This article looks into some of the nuances […]

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The Spectacle; Fake it Till you become it!

The Society of The Spectacle written by French Marxist theorist Guy De Bord was Published in 1967. Within this manifesto Debord describes the human condition driven by the Spectacle; he deconstructs our world that values the representation of images greater than the reality of being. He states that The Spectacle […]

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How Does Colour Grading Effect Our Emotions in Filmmaking?

Colour has the power to make us feel. As we go about our lives with associate colour with different things often on a subconscious level. Our response to colour varies depending on colour and context. Colour and grading is the process during filmmaking where by the understanding of colour is […]

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Media Ecologies; Step Back to See Beyond the Screen.

A Medium is a technology in which a culture grows. It gives form to a cultures politics, Its social organization and habitual ways of thinking. – Walter. J Ong. (As cited in Eusebio, 2014.)  Media Ecology is the analysis of the technology and mediums in which we express ourselves through our […]

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