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Welcome to the imaginatively titled: Nick's Media Vlogs.
New for September 2019, this page will be a series of regular* video blogs that discuss a variety of Media related issues. Sometimes it will relate to conversations had in the classroom that day, other times it might be recommendations of TV shows, film or music that I am listening to.
I'll try to keep the focus as academic and relevant to the course as possible - but it should also be useful to point you in the direction of other Media related stuff that is interesting but just doesn't quite fit into the course at that time.
Keep visiting and as a signed up member of the blog you are very welcome to comment on the posts and take the conversation in any which way you like!
Nick Saward
Oct 12, 20211 min read
Project Nolan: Tenet
Better late than never? Or maybe not. Project Nolan finally comes to a close with less than a bang - in fact a rather lukewarm response...
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Nick Saward
Jun 29, 20211 min read
Project Nolan: Dunkirk
SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS - is something that we should have said right at the beginning of this video - but we didn't. Not that there's...
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Nick Saward
Jun 21, 20211 min read
Project Nolan: Inception
We finally reach the No1. spots for our top ten lists. First up is Nick's personal favourite: Inception. High concept, high octane, high...
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Nick Saward
Jun 21, 20211 min read
Project Nolan: Interstellar
Finally free of the cinematic confines of his Dark Knight trilogy, Nolan lets us know what he's been really thinking about - and it's...
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Nick Saward
Jun 21, 20211 min read
Project Nolan: The Prestige
Making its way into both Matt & Nick's top 5 Christopher Nolan films is the confusing, confounding but utterly compelling: The Prestige....
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Nick Saward
Jun 21, 20211 min read
Project Nolan: The Dark Knight Rises
Just to add insult to injury - after placing flawless The Dark Knight in at number four of their list, Matt and Nick decide that it's...
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Nick Saward
Jun 21, 20211 min read
Project Nolan: The Dark Knight (including 5-1 reveal)
Widely considered to be the film that changed superhero movies forever, indeed, considered by some as the greatest comic book adaptation...
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Nick Saward
Sep 2, 20201 min read
Project Nolan: Batman Begins
The first of Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy is also the first first to be reviewed as it appeared in both Matt & Nick's 'bottom' half of...
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Nick Saward
Aug 27, 20201 min read
Project Nolan: Memento
The first Nolan film that we both experienced and one which we have watched and discussed countless times came in at number six on Matt's...
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Nick Saward
Aug 25, 20201 min read
Project Nolan: Insomnia
Insomnia was Nolan's third feature film and second to get a cinema release in 2002. Number nine for both Matt and Nick, and countless...
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Nick Saward
Aug 19, 20201 min read
Project Nolan: Following
Coming in at number ten on both Matt & Nicks' lists is Christopher Nolan's first feature film; Following. A 'no budget' suspense noir...
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Nick Saward
Aug 17, 20201 min read
Project Nolan: 10-6
In the second video of this venture Matt & Nick reveal which of Nolan's films fill positions ten through to six. Revealing just how...
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Nick Saward
Jul 14, 20201 min read
Project Nolan: Introduction
The first of a collection of a dozen (or so) videos exploring and analysing the back catalogue of British filmmaker Christopher Nolan,...
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Nick Saward
Apr 15, 20201 min read
Old from New & New from Old
Still on lockdown and having failed to start any boxsets on *the list*, media consumption has mainly come from noodling around on...
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Nick Saward
Apr 3, 20201 min read
A Tale of Two Ads
As social distancing becomes the 'new norm' it's not just news and current affairs media that is representing the strange new world we...
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Nick Saward
Mar 27, 20201 min read
Mickey Vs Aunty
As we're all stuck inside watching repeats of Friends to escape the news, Disney+ has arrived to save us! But is it as wholesome and...
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Nick Saward
Mar 20, 20201 min read
PSB or not PSB, that is the question.
I'll keep this short - should we still be paying for the BBC, should the BBC even exist. Since the general election back in December...
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Nick Saward
Feb 28, 20201 min read
Gender Trouble
Timing is everything, and in a week where we've been discussing representations of gender, two very different videos pop up to make the...
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Nick Saward
Feb 11, 20201 min read
"I never make predictions... and I never will."
In what was supposed to be my first post of 2020, I have a look at the BBC Media Editor Amol Rajan's predictions for various media...
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Nick Saward
Feb 7, 20201 min read
WARNING: This media may bite!
Happy 2020! It's been a while. We kick off this year with a discussion of whether or not art and culture can ever be risky or even...
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Nick Saward
Sep 21, 20191 min read
With your feet on the air & your head on the ground...
As well as writing & recording his own albums, Johnston was a prolific artist whose iconic album cover illustration got ‘Hi, How are...
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Nick Saward
Sep 18, 20191 min read
Chewing Gum for the Eyes?
Thee BBC say they are ready for the continuing changes to the landscape of broadcasting. The quotation below links to the article...
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Nick Saward
Sep 16, 20191 min read
Au Revoir Marie Claire
Following the decision both here and across the Atlantic to cease publishing major newspapers and magazines, the Guardian's Mark Sweney...
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Nick Saward
Sep 13, 20191 min read
This is My Truth Tell Me Yours
A lively debate about whether or not it is possible to have a fair and balanced argument in the broadcast media whilst everyone else is...
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Nick Saward
Sep 12, 20191 min read
PWB
The wonderful and diversely talented Phoebe Waller-Bridge in her many guises, writer and star of Fleabag, script doctor on Bond 25,...
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Nick Saward
Sep 11, 20191 min read
Fan. (noun) ... from the Latin fanaticus
Here's a link to the New Yorker article: Superfans: A Love Story From “Star Wars” to “Game of Thrones,” fans have more power than ever to...
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Nick Saward
Sep 10, 20191 min read
Life Imitating Art Imitating Life?
This week saw the launch of the long awaited sequel to the novel: The Handmaid's Tale. It may have been convenient timing for the...
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Nick Saward
Sep 9, 20191 min read
'Fixing' the news...
Here is a link to the Guardian article referred to in the post... https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/aug/31/is-not-sex-and-broken-hea...
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Nick Saward
Sep 6, 20191 min read
It definitely is Friday...
Here are the two front pages of the English & Scottish editions of The Sun (don't buy The Sun) yesterday... ... and here is one of the...
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Nick Saward
Sep 5, 20191 min read
Hello - it's not Wednesday!
Welcome to my first Media Studies Vlog! As mentioned above, feel free to comment on different examples of the dreaded social media 'Echo...
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*I planned to do these daily, I think we both know that's not going to happen!
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