News, ownership and the idea of being informed

I learned some things I didn't know today. For example:

- I didn't know that if you checked your ATM and found money missing, that it was you who was responsible for showing how it went missing.
- in Feburary 2009, facebook made amendments to its privacy settings that allowed the site to take ownership of anything the users posted on their profile, even if they deleted their account.


The idea of personal Onus of Proof and the lack of control I have over my face book page alarms me. Although this sort of ties into the Spin thing that we were talking about in Professional Writing and Publishing, if you'll let me draw paralells.

With spin, it's basically taking any situation and turning it to your advantage. The way they word the terms of service for certain companies does the same thing. With the bank, they don't really care how it happens as long as they get the money.

My notes say Agenda Setting, which is basically the same thing as Spin. Choose the setting you want, angle your agenda towards it, and you can almost convince anyone of anything. The correct wording is paramount, and as a result of learning all of this I've been reading through my contracts and anything else I agree to very, very carefully.

Ho hum bang the doldrums

I ended up changing my remediation project, due to physical constraints. My hands are screwing up and I can't do the comic pages, like I wanted. I'm doing a music video instead, using footage from silent hill, similar to another movie I've made before. I'm hoping I don't need to download a lot of the footage again, because that might be problematic. Windows movie maker serves well enough with regards to making a video though. Since I've done it before, I might follow the same model as my old one, remediating Silent Hill Footage into a music video with a song by a band called Resicover, named I consume you. I'll make the song available for download later. (EDIT) Actually, changed the song. Whee. And the game subject. What. D:

The whole idea behind Silent Hill fascinates me. I'm not entierly sure why. I'm a huge horror fan, so that might have something to do with it. It just hits all the right buttons. And the good guys don't always win. In fact, usually the good guys are at fault for what's going on in the first place. I'm hoping I can get across just how much I adore this series and how much fun it is as I go through the process of remediating.

AAAAAAAAAH

I have figured out what I'm going to be using this for! We've got to keep a learning portfolio, and if I can get my scanner working (Downloading the drivers now hooray) I'm going to use this as my assignment/tutorial/learning journal. I'm already working on the first assignment, but I need to run it past my tute lecturer.

I have two ideas for the first assignment, and I'm going to do them at the same time because if one doesn't pan out, I can use the other. One is to turn the first few minutes of Dead Like Me into a comic, with a cover page and all. Five to six pages long. The other is to use George, the main character, to create a twitter feed of the first episode, with her thoughts and snarking. I'm going to run this past my Tute lecturer (when I find out who that is tomorrow or at least I think it is tomorrow) and see how that goes down.

I've already scanned in the cover page idea, and I'll provide a link as soon as I have that updated, as well as taking progress shots to see what changes I make design wise.

AHAH. VICTORY.

Link!

I'm moving the bubble up and changing her face because I drew it all without reference, but there you go! small copy of the front page.

Here is a decidedly ugly link to the finished product. I did it in one night, and I'm not going to bother with shading because that'll just double the amount of time (if not triple it) that I need to spend colouring.

That's the design I'd be using for George, the main character, if I get to do this one. If not, I'll provide a link to the twitter feed.