TWC301: Multimedia Writing

The examples in this website provide real-life example, and include a designers explanation below the advertisement/image.

I bookmarked this website because it really supplemented some of the techniques described in Basics of Design. This website shows great examples of how to manipulate viewers path. The advertisements near the bottom of the page show how to create a visual path for someone with out using a human body.

This article is about visual flow in web design. It acknowledges the differences between flow on the web and flow on fine art. The article provides numerous examples of how visual flow is used on the web.

Here is a four-quadrant matrix geared to project teams based on Stephen Covey's work on time management. We're encouraged to "spend more time in Quadrant 2." Take a look!

This easy to follow guideline for task scheduling includes six steps, including the last step, the identification of milestones.

"Artists' Rights are Human Rights" is the title of this article in a 2010 journal. This points out the fairly recent swing in attitudes toward protection of creators' rights.

This website is very in-depth. It gives several examples of what remediation is and also goes into hyperimmediacy. It talks about transparent immediacy as well. It lets the reader know exactly what is ongoing in the media.

I found this article to give an interesting insight to remediation through a different format. The author focuses on how social medias have become a center for marketing. This leads the author to talk about how transparent everything is becoming due to the immediate response from a "tweet" or "status update". Through purchasing anything, the online experience has remediated the face to face experience. Customers now leave their comments on a certain product, and others use this information to persuade their purchase. From this we are now able to even share our purchases through social medias. The real store has been remediated into an online experience and allows for social connection, without the physical connection.

This is a Youtube video about immediacy, hypermediacy, and remediation that explains what they are and how they are applied to media that we come into contact with each day. It very helpful in giving you a better understanding what they mean without all the large words, its plain and simple.  

short video about immediacy and hypermediacy

This is actually kind of a summary of the concepts of the Remediation book. This is helpful because you can get a quick grasp of what the book is talking about in a few short paragraphs summarizing the ideas.

This link is to an analysis of Bolter, Jay David, and Richard Grusin. Remediation: Understanding New Media. The MIT Press, 2000. By Time Barrow. It is interesting how the blogger touches on the principles of Transparent Immediacy and Hypermedia. He discusses how the online video conversation (OVC), acts like earlier media in that it makes its presence known to the user by hyper-mediation. Though this type of video does include a face to face view of a recorded person, it separates itself from video conferencing and Skype by allowing the user to pause and ponder responses, respond at request, and post re-recorded responses live. Technologies like this have a huge potential in distance learning with online classes. Imagine your instructors recording their lectures with every view having a front seat in the class. Combine this with the ability to pause the lecture to reflect on information and develop scenarios for different problems that are presented. All while having the ability to ask any question about info covered and re watching any portion of video until clearly understood.

This websites explains what each of the items means and what roles they play in new media. it also goes on to talk about where these items come into play in everyday things that we use like skype and so on. 

This stuff is really hard for me to understand. This is a definition to help if others are struggling.

This website gives an explanation about remediation and new media.  It also gives an explanation of how remediation is defined by predecessors like the television, radio and or old media like journals.  Media can interact with other kind of media by reproducing and replacing and making other changes.

I like how this article explains what remediation is and new media. This article talks about the double logic of remediation which are the process of remediation, remediation and reality, redmediation as reform.

According to this website, immediacy allows for a synthetic experience of reality that generated real emotions. For example, a horror film that has its viewers clutching their seats and jumping at the slightest noise has achieved immediacy. The film transcends its status as just that; a staged, planned, and recorded movie. It becomes "real" for the audience. Hypermediacy, on the other hand, calls attention to the medium. This would occur while watching a film and reveling in its special effects created by computer. Here is a good explanation of the relationship between immediacy and hypermediacy: "Immediacy erases that limits of what we are capable of experiencing, while hypermediacy gives us the power and the means by which to experience it."

This website discusses the format and purpose of a formal report. The different kinds of professionals that use this report need to know who the intended readers are.

This website contained a lot of information that just gave an overview on the basics of formal reports. It also explained how formal reports differ from an informal way of reporting information. It also split a formal report into 3 sections that I did not see in the other website I found. In this one it states that there is front matter, main text, and back matter. Each of these contains different sections within as well. Very helpful for when we have to work on Project #3!

I like this website because it gives you good explanation on different things you need in a good report. It talks about the front matter like front cover. tittle page, contents page and summary. Also about the main text like introduction, discussion, conlcusion. Back matter is also important with the appendices and glossary.

This blog is a good resource for tips on making an impressionable resume video. It provides samples of good quality resumes and gives you specific tips on what to do and how to dress. It also has examples of poor tapes that seemed like it was a joke. Overall a great blog site with helpful hints.

This website is very helpful when it comes to building up your resume.  It gives you tips on what you should include to have chances on getting an interview and what not to do.  It also tells you where to upload your video and how to promote your video.  

This site list tips on how to create a resume video. Where to post your video resume. Also, why to create a resume video.

Gives the definition and components of a formal report.

This shows an example of using repetition with punchy red font for the heading and subheads in a newsletter, and how that improves the page. There are before and after images.

This is an interesting article about repetition in design. It uses a kind of "before and after" method to visually demonstrate the effects of repetition and how it can be used to control a readers eye.

This site shows how to make designs more consistent through repetition.

This page is from author Robin Williams, in her voice, good tips.

This is a complete video of one talk at WordCamp Phoenix/Chandler. It is about 45 minutes long. She starts out by showing various "one-page" designs. This is really helpful because it opens up so many possibilities. I wish I could have attended WordCamp, but I had a conflict. One is scheduled here for next year.

User experience (UX) slide show from WordCamp. Has a lot of good tips on addons that are worth paying for, and how that frees you up to focus on content.