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Michelle Teh
https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelleteh101
Personal Networking Report (Future of Television Programming) [2008]
3-Yr Future Project Proposal-Distribution of Television Content
[https://www.behance.net/gallery/1109729/Student-Showreel-(RMIT-2008)]
This is a compilation of works done during 2008 at RMIT University, I served as Writer-Director on two of these productions and Producer on one.
The following two films were part of an experimental project featuring a series of non-linear story-lines that focus on the same 4 characters played by the same actors, but the stories are not interconnected in any way.
The Audition: The disintegration of a relationship from opposing viewpoints. She sees it one way, He sees it from another.
6 min 02 sec, format [16:9], colour, produced in 2008, my role: Writer and Director.
[https://www.behance.net/gallery/1109809/The-Audition-(SHe)]
That Was Then, This Is Now: Contrasting images and audio reveal the breakdown of a relationship, through the process of time.
5 min 36 sec, format [16:9], colour, produced in 2008, my role: Producer.
[https://www.behance.net/gallery/1109835/That-Was-Then-This-Is-Now-(SHe)]
Time Manipulated – 2 min 37 sec, format [16:9], colour, produced in 2008, my role: Writer and Director.
[https://www.behance.net/gallery/1109959/Time-Manipulated]
This was a short film exploring the concept of ‘Time’.
Here’s a synopsis:
The scene begins with a man being trapped in a room he can’t escape and this provides a metaphor for us as humans being trapped in a world where media is all around and we can’t escape it. We’ve accepted media as a huge part of our lives, mediated images are all we know and they construct our world, as we know it.
Another parallel apart from the time lapses and time jumps could relate to Latch’s possible death prediction in the newspaper. Could this man be getting tomorrow’s newspaper today? This is linked to the position of news in today’s world, where information travels so fast and it may get put out of context, ironically turning ‘news’ into its paradox of being mere rumours.
The manipulation of the Space/Time continuum is unfathomable by the human mind, (especially if one tries to think through and comprehend every aspect of time travel and manipulation; mainly because it seemingly isn’t physically possible, much like M. C. Escher’s creations.
M. C. Escher’s paintings were typically done on old media (Art canvases with paint), but have now been cracked and explained with the integration of new media (Digital re-creations; animation of the ‘impossible cube’ being constructed.) This concept links to the ideas brought about by Jenkins in his book Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide.
Hence, our project is itself a piece of media which greatly demands the audience’ attention and interaction, as it persuades the audience to come up with their own interpretation and conclusion about what message is being conveyed across.
The above-mentioned points resonate the same ideals that Jenkins proposes in his book Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide. These ideals being that:
- Media is interactive.
- Media is everything; culturally involved with society.
- Media and culture is shaped by participation.
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