19th March - Sessions Work

Today our lessons was cut short to an hour and a half so we didn't have a lot of time to complete a lot of work that we wanted to get done. Barney took the first half hour of our lesson to talk to us about media in the online age and how viral music videos have effected the industry.

He gave us some questions and points that we should think about;

-Why do you watch the videos?

-Is it to pass time or do you connect with the music?

-Viral model = Does it democratise the process? Can youtube allow artists to hijack the system?

-Traditional model = Music and video had a symbolic relationship - Iconic videos created superstars, superstars created bigger videos, e.g Thriller

However, we managed to worked on our articles today, working on the feedback that we were given from other members of the class and we then sent a PDF of our article to Alex to send off to Jenny for more feedback.