In the age of this technological world that we are living in, the creation of social media is one of the biggest and easiest way to connect with each other no matter which part of the world you are in, as long as there is internet connection.  Together with the mobile industry are also developing at the same time, most mobile phone devices or tablets are able to connect to the internet through the power of 3G and 4G hence all users could be able to stay connected with each other at any time.

But how can we be assured that the person that you are talking from the online platform that you use is the actual person that you know? The answer is simple, it is through their online identity and behavior. Online identity can be categorized in serval ways, from their profile pictures, info and even the stuff that they share online etc. these ways could let you identify them because it reflects their social identity. 

However, it is also important to protect your online identity in the media world as well, since that there are frauds that would steal your identity to commit a crime, for example stealing money from your bank, getting loans or anything that benefits themselves. Hence, this is why we need to be careful on what information that we chose to put online however the information should be limited.

According to (Brown 2015, p.221) online identity is ‘’the post-structuralist conception of identity involves rejecting the notion of a singular, ‘ture’self and acknowledging that there are multiple ‘selves’.’’ For myself, I use Instagram and WeChat on a daily basis, however the information the I share in these two platforms are totally different.  For example, I use Instagram to share my photos that I have taken with my camera lens mainly, just to make my account more to look more artistic. But on WeChat, I tend not to give out my information a lot since that I do not trust their privacy system at all.

Here are some photos from my Instagram account, the top left corner is my profile picture. The reason that I have chosen to use this picture is because I think that it would draw more attention to other users, and it is also a way to show the younger version of Adrian Chau. Moving on to the bottom, I have also given out brief information of myself, those three flags represents the places that I have studied before and were I am studying currently but it is more likely to be a travel blog I would say. Instagram would let you to share moments as well, which means the user can upload what they called a ‘’story’’ and share it to their followers and it allows you to interact with them and these story will be archived in 24 hours. 

In my Instagram account, most of the pages that I have followed are mainly categorized by my friends, celebrities, photographers, fashion trends and sports channel. Therefore, it is also for myself to choose what to see and what am I mainly interested in in order to build up my own community for myself. The reason behind it is because I can get all the latest information that I want.

Identity thieves are all over the world, just as I was doing my blog post, my Facebook account was hacked by someone in Brazil. This is the reason why it is also important to keep your account safe and giving less important information about yourself because you don’t know what their purposes are.  To sum up, the online world surly have limitless information that you can explore and it is no doubt that it is one of the greatest invention among human history however when you have chosen to go into this digital world, you should be careful and choose wisely on what information that you would like the online world know about yourself.

Brown, A 2015, ‘Making Meaning through Narrative: Conventions, Intertextuality and Transmedia Storytelling’ in Communication, Digital media and Everyday Life, 2en ed., Oxford University Press, South Melbourne

This is an ad form coca cola Australia. This ad uses the nature as a background to create and build up the message of the importance of recycling to their audience. In the ad, they used ants and a ladybug to carry out the message of recycling to their audiences mean while both incests also represents the brand itself because they are both red and black. This ad meets the standard of surprise and regularity.

This is an ad from the coca cola Hong Kong. In the ad they uses the two artist form HK to promote the idea of combining food and coca cola in order to draw the attention to their audience.  Those two artist are fighting for the last coca cola in the store.

                                                  ALM102 Assignment 3

Reflection for Assignment 3

Student Name: Chau King Wai Adrian

Student ID: CHAK2D1901

Tutor: Bob Tan

This task requires you to create a 7-minute informational video that engages with one of the Digital Media Contexts covered in Weeks 4-7 in critical and creative ways. You must embed this video from YouTube into a blog post and include in this post an 800-word written reflection on the decision-making and learning process you undertook for this exercise.  To recap, create a 7-minute video on YouTube, embed video into blog post with 800 word written reflection. Submit to backup of blogpost with working link to Moodle. 

In this final assignment, I have chosen to do an extension topic which is related to my second assignment. On my 2^nd assignment, I have talked about how surveillance camera can invade your personal space but for this final assignment, I have brought up how China uses

surveillance camera to create a system called ‘’social credit system’’.

According to my research, the social credit system was created and been used since the year of 2014 and the Chinese government wants the system to be fully used by the year of 2020. The purpose of it is to track on the citizen and to rate them into different tiers, from AAA to D. So, you might ask, how does the system work? Every citizen in China starts with 1000 points, whenever you did something that is beneficial to the Chinese government your social credit will be increased, such as going for a blood donation your points will be gained by 20 or getting mentioned or honoured by the government  your credit will be increased by 100. On the other hand, if you did something that is bad to the society your marks will be deducted. For example, a late payment for you credit card you point will be deduct by 20 and if you have made a harassing or even spreading hatful comments on the internet you point will be deducted by 100. The higher points you have to more beneficial you are by the government, let’s say you are in a ‘’AAA’’ rank, you will get a much higher chance to get into a A-league school or university comparing to those who are beneath you, you don’t have to pay any sorts of deposits when you are buying a house and you will also have an upgrade in everything. On the other side, if you’re in tier B or below your life would be not as good as the ones that are in the top tier. For example, you will not be able to purchase things that are online, can’t get into your favourite school even how hard you’ve worked on it and the worst is the government would actually forbid you to travel anywhere in another way it seems to me it is just taking away your basic rights and freedom.

Now Hong Kong have actually been facing these sorts of problem slowly, people have founded out the streetlights in Hong Kong have been replaced with the ones with smart cameras on it and it supports a 5G network. During the protest in Hong Kong, citizens have destroyed one of those streetlights and founded out there has a modem inside of it and all of the data have actually been sent to the Chinese government. And as crazy as it sounds, the Chinese government have had already been watching and been collecting our personal data since we don’t know when.

And for the video that I’ve made this time, instead of myself narrating from the clip like the last video it is me talking for the whole time to the camera. To be honest is quite challenging since this is the first time for me to choose this way to give out information and to present myself. I also found out that I am talking in a slightly slower way when I am talking in front of the camera and this could be improved if I get myself to talk more in front of the camera more often. Overall, I think this is a quite interesting topic for me to cover and to be discussed since that the relationship in China and Hong Kong is quite complicated right now and I hope that this problem will be sorted in no time.

 Student Name: King Wai Adrian Chau

Student ID: CHAK2D1901

Assignment Title: Written Reflection

Submission Date: 1^st September,2019

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• Include in this post a 500-600 word written reflection on the following:
o Decisions about what kind of content/messages/meanings you wanted to convey about your chosen context in your video (approx. 100 words)
o Strategies relating to planning, editing, selection of source material, use of overlays, juxtaposition of image and sound, use of music, and so on that you employed in your video (approx. 300 words)
o Lessons you learned, challenges you encountered, and how you resolved any problems you faced (approx. 200 words)
• You may use the first person (‘I’, ‘my’) when writing the reflection

The topic that I have chosen for the second assignment is about surveillance.  According to the Cambridge dictionary, the meaning of surveillance is ‘’the careful watching of a person or place, especially by the police or government because of a crime that has happened or is expected.’’ Surveillance can be a good thing to the society and yet privacy could also be invaded as the same time, therefor the main idea of this video is to discuss the pros and cons about surveillance.

For the planning part, our lecturer Bob have told us to do some research about our topic during class and he also gave out information for each topic, videos were also shown so that we could get more ideas while we are doing our assignment. For the editing part, I will be using iMovie as my editing software as it is straight forward and easy to handle. But for this assignment, we have to pay attention for copy rights, as I will be using music from an online software called ‘SoundCloud’ for my background music in my video. The music that I have chosen for this video will be defined as ‘lofi’, I think it will give my audience a more relax feeling and meanwhile I will be narrating for the entire video.  

Lessons that I have learnt from my last video was my audio wasn’t loud enough, therefor this time I have attached my airpods as my microphone while I was doing my A roll shots and for my B roll, I have used an actual microphone to do the voice over in order to narrate my information and to avoid the audio issue. To conclude, making this was pretty straight forward but there’s also some copy right issue that we have to be aware of.

ALM102

Decisions about what kind of content/messages/meanings you wanted to convey
about yourself in your video.

We are told to do a self introduction video for this ALM102 class. In the first bit of my video, I have used a 10 second B-roll shot as my opening, the purpose is to let this video to be more interactive with my audiences and to give an idea to them that they are watching my video. The content of this video is pretty straight forward and it is for me to address my audience about myself.

Strategies relating to planning, framing and positioning, shot composition,
engagement with audience, and recording audio that you employed in your video

The planning layout for my video was divided into four parts as B,A,A,B. The first B-roll shot was me walking towards the camera as long and wide shot and background music are used. Moving on to the second part of my video, the vlog beings. I have placed my camera to an eye level and this interaction could let them feel I am actually talking to them and there’s something I would like to address. For the third and fourth part, I have moved my camera to a lower angle as my outro for my video. Various shots are used in my video, and in order to have more engagement with the audience, some hand gestures are applied as well. Audio was not a thing for me to worry since that I was in an indoor area but vloggers must also pay attention on their audio if they are in an outdoor condition.

Lessons you learned, challenges you encountered, and how you resolved any
problems you faced

From making this video, the challenges that i had was minor but the major challenge for me was looking directly and talk, i actually found it awkward and it was a bit embarrassing to be honest. But the fun bit for me was editing the video.

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