Week Two// Task One: Media Forms

Task 1

Get photographs of at least 10 different types of MEDIA FORMS, and describe them. Make sure you note your references if you get the photographs from somewhere else.

1. Primitive Media

Primitive media bear the marks of the human touch. It reveals the aesthetic and subtle communicative possibilities of primitive media. The end of every medium should be to reveal the connection between the natural, the cultural and the spiritual elements of a community. Primitive media, unlike mainstream media, have no implicit or explicit agenda. 

Reference: http://www.angelfire.com/nd/nirmaldasan/editorials/february2007.html

2. Printed Media

Print media is one of the oldest and basic forms of mass communication. It includes books, newspapers, weeklies, magazines, monthlies and other forms of printed journals.Print media has the advantage of making a longer impact on the minds of the reader, with more in-depth reporting and analysis.

Reference: http://download.nos.org/srsec335new/ch5.pdf

3. Digital Media

Digital media is a form of electronic media where data are stored in digital which is opposed to analogue form. It can refer to the technical aspect of storage and transmission (e.g. hard disk drives or computer networking) of information or to the "end product", such as digital video, augmented reality, digital signage, digital audio, or digital art.

Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_media

4. Broadcast Media

The sequencing of content in a broadcast is called a schedule. With all technological endeavors a number of technical terms and slang are developed please see the list of broadcasting terms for a glossary of terms used. Television and radio programs are distributed through radio broadcasting over frequency bands such regulation includes determination of the width of the bands, range, licencing, types of receivers and transmitters used, and acceptable content.

Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_media

5. Film Media

'Film' encompasses motion pictures as individual projects, as well as the field in general. The name comes from the photographic film also called filmstock, historically the primary medium for recording and displaying motion pictures. Many other terms exist—motion pictures or just pictures, the silver screen, photoplays, the cinema, picture shows, flicks—and commonlymovies

Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_media

6. Art as Media

"Media art" refers to artworks that depend on a technological component to function. The term "media" applies to any communication device used to transmit and store information. By incorporating emerging technologies into their artworks, artists using new media are constantly redefining the traditional categories of art.

Reference:http://www.museevirtuel-virtualmuseum.ca/sgc-cms/expositions-exhibitions/arts_mediatiques-media_arts/art_mediatique-media_art-eng.php

7. Electronic Media

Electronic Media is information or data that is created, distributed and accessed using a form of electronics, electromechanical energy or any equipment used in electronic communications. The common equipment we use on a day to day basis to access Electronic Media is our television, radio, computer, cell phones and other devices transporting information to and from us by means of electronic involvement.

Reference: http://www.electronicmedia.co.za/

8. Written Media

Written media offer access to readers whom you might not be able to address orally. It is a relatively inexpensive way to reach a large audience and also a permanent, indisputable record of what you've said — for both you and your audience. Written media give a chance to think your message through carefully and double-check it before you deliver it.

Reference: http://writingforresults.net/Acro_3/3_medium/2_writtn.pdf

9. Spoken Media

Conversation, the most common type of speech, involves immediate interchange between the participants, who convey their reactions either in words or through facial expressions and bodily movements. There is more spontaneity in conversation than in writing; self-correction occurs in the flow of conversation,

Reference: http://grammar.about.com/od/mo/g/mediumterm.htm

10. Drawn Media

In drawing, "media" refers to both the material that is manually applied and to the base onto which it is applied. The media applied can be many things but the method of application is a stick type object with a point (not a brush) that transfers particles of media to the base. The point of the stick can be minute as it can be large. The medium applied can be graphite, fusain, pastel, ink among other things. Bases can be paper, plaster, canvas, wood or basically anything that accepts the medium applied from the point of the stick.

Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_artistic_media