The second week in terms of reflections gave a stronger feel of what the class is about. We met in our pod for the first time on Friday, although it was just two of us for this one. It was helpful to hear the thought process of someone else in the class and their experience so far. Although we forgot to discuss week 1 blog posts, we did discuss digital literacy and the idea surrounding my inquiry.
The most interesting in class document mentioned touched on the reverse image search tool. It’s something that has existed in my orbit for a number of years, but didn’t understand how to use or how it functioned. Being able to check the source of an image is extremely helpful for fact checking and finding out if an image has been lifted from somewhere else. The ability to authenticate an image has gotten more difficult over time, and this tool is great to combat against that.
Lastly in relation to this class I’ve been working on post production on a self made short film, and the digital applications have been a learning curve. File types between machines and software can be a difficult needle to thread. Going back and forth with our composer we had to convert native ProTools into Wav. into mp3. Here’s a concept piece for the short!