By Ella Smith
For the focus of my video for this project, I chose the topic surrounding the digital divide of; “Digital media has seen new divides form and old divides grow wider, but can also be used to diminish the divides that separate.” To be honest, when beginning this video about this topic, I thought that it would have been easier to create arguments and inform the audience than it was. Originally in my draft, I kept repeating myself and for me stringing out relevant information was a challenge for me. The main points that I found interesting about the divide was surrounding the topics of Education, the handicapped portion of society, the National broadband network (NBN), the location and rurality of those in Australia and comparing the indigenous Australians to the non-indigenous Australians. I chose to focus on Australia for a large proportion of the video as it is a prevalent issue in which the negatives need to be abolished and the positives need to rise above in order for the digital divide to not be a major matter of our society. In my video, I did not want to focus on the elderly as I felt as though it is a popular topic to focus on when talking about the digital divide. I also feel as though as a society, we are always developing and new generations form, the elderly segment to this issue will not be as relevant in times to come. Thus, personally I thought that it is a topic that doesn’t grow wider as soon enough everyone who has access to it will know how to use it. I also shun a light on the positives on the divide and how the positives can assist the negatives from becoming unapparent within society.
For my video, it took many drafts of my topic as I am personally not the best writer known to man and also my lecturer changed my mind a few days before it was due about the video and data being more Australian based. Therefore, my script only formulated the day I began filming also. I filmed on my Apple Iphone XR as I believe it is great quality and clarity of the picture and it also picks up sound really well. I put my computer on a box which gave the framing of the video height, and I then lent my phone upon my computer and begun to film. I filmed my video in the afternoon which I was in some shots lucky with the lighting and others it would either have too much shadow or too much light. I corrected this issue by using Imovie (what i used to edit the video) with editing video by using various tools on I movie to colour correct and give some sort of improvement of a filter.
During my video, I have created a graceful but upbeat music that I made myself on Garage Band. The volume of this music, is 6% as I don’t want it to divert the audience’s attention so that they understand my voice clearly and also for the ambience of the video to not be totally silent and awkward. I received contrastive feedback from my last video and I wanted to bring the things that I did well into this video and leave the not so good behind. Thus, in this video I have spoken to the camera more and not just videos that I have filmed myself, it creates more of a personal video. However, I have had a part where I only used pictures from Flickr with creative commons licences that I could use. In this section of the video, I have done a compilation of images that relate to the digital divide and none of them pop up for more than 0.2 of a second as in this part of the video I talk about how diverse the topics are and how it has grown over time but also negatively declined. Therefore, I wanted this segment to reflect that.
Besides my script writing issues that I have stated previously, my other issue was a common issue of making eye contact with the lens instead of the of my script that was on the computer. I overcame this issue by reading my sentence before filming and did my video in short segments. However, I am happy with my filming as it didn’t need too much editing and cropping of the individual videos.
Scholarly articles
Broadband in the Burbs: NBN Infrastructure, Spectrum Politics and the Digital Home | Apperley | M/C Journal. 2019. Broadband in the Burbs: NBN Infrastructure, Spectrum Politics and the Digital Home | Apperley | M/C Journal. [ONLINE] Available at: http://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/article/view/400. [Accessed 23 September 2019].
digital inclusion index. 2018. Roy Morgan. [ONLINE] Available at: https://digitalinclusionindex.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Australian-digital-inclusion-index-2018.pdf. [Accessed 25 September 2019].
Reference:
Digital Divide Council. 2019. The Pros and Cons of Digital Divide (Advantages & Disadvantages). [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.digitaldividecouncil.com/digital-divide-the-pros-and-cons/. [Accessed 27 September 2019].
All pictures used are from Flickr and have a creative commons license.
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