Assignment Two Rational

For assignment two of Networked Media Production, I did a geo-narrative. This assignment was a very interesting look at networked media. I had a lot of fun writing my geo-narrative story, and although it may be perhaps a little too long, I do think that it is an enjoyable read. I hope? My original idea was to write a government conspiracy, which envolved into a ‘not too distant future’, where Swine Flu has mutated into a plague like virus, affecting many Australians. The main character is an ASIS (Australian Secret Intelligence Agency) agent, which is according to Wikipedia an agency similar to the USA’s CIA and UK’s MI6. All I did to find out this information was to simple google, ‘Australian Secret Service,’ and the first thing that popped up was the official site for ASIS. I tried to for all my information, research and gather correct information, like the train times in Sydney, and Jet Star flight plans from Sydney to Gold Coast.
Finding photos to work along my text was more of a challenge. I wanted my character to go to places where I had pictures of, so he travelled to my last year’s holiday destination in the Gold Coast. I only ended up using eleven photos, six from creative commons, four of my own, and one that I remixed. I used photos when I thought that it was a pivotal chapter, and one that also did not have long text. The chapters that did have long texts rarely had a photo attached to it, as I felt that the photo and the length of the text would only scare off readers. I contacted the people which I had used their in my assignment, and left my email. I am hoping for some responses, but I suppose the most important response I am looking forward to is from UC, containing my mark. Overall I think that Creative Commons is an awesome way to legally share photos, without which networked production may not be as rich as it is. I hope you enjoy/enjoyed reading my assignment, as much as I loved working on it.

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