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Idea Lab - Becoming Screen Literate - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    • Rachel Cofer
      Rachel Cofer on 23 Sep 09
       
      As new technology comes in, old technology,well gets old I suppose. For example, with everyone accessing e-mail at home, work, and even on cell phones, layoffs are affecting US Post Offices because of the decline in "snail mail." The same is seen in this article about the change in movie standards. Now short flicks you can watch on your iPod or cell are becoming the "in" thing
  • The overthrow of the book would have happened long ago but for the great user asymmetry inherent in all media. It is easier to read a book than to write one; easier to listen to a song than to compose one; easier to attend a play than to produce one. But movies in particular suffer from this user asymmetry. The intensely collaborative work needed to coddle chemically treated film and paste together its strips into movies meant that it was vastly easier to watch a movie than to make one. A Hollywood blockbuster can take a million person-hours to produce and only two hours to consume. But now, cheap and universal tools of creation (megapixel phone cameras, Photoshop, iMovie) are quickly reducing the effort needed to create moving images. To the utter bafflement of the experts who confidently claimed that viewers would never rise from their reclining passivity, tens of millions of people have in recent years spent uncountable hours making movies of their own design. Having a ready and reachable audience of potential millions helps, as does the choice of multiple modes in which to create. Because of new consumer gadgets, community training, peer encouragement and fiendishly clever software, the ease of making video now approaches the ease of writing.
    • Casey Reilly
      Casey Reilly on 24 Sep 09
       
      it is hard not to be children of the screen in these times. With the power of movie makers at our exposal and with youtube making the distibution of it easy anyone can make a movie that is just as popular than a blockbuster hit. This kind of power is almost hard to resist for most people and making them part of the world surounded by screens, by being in them. Also for the people who watch them are becoming children of the screen.
    • Rachel Cofer
      Rachel Cofer on 23 Sep 09
       
      I couldn't even imagine a world without paperbooks. I am aware of Kindles and eReaders, but a few slim paperbacks are much more appealing than a cumbersome computer book. Sure it would save money, but so does library. Also, what happens when you are right on the last chapter of a mystery book and the battery dies on that Kindle? Real books don't die.
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  • An emerging set of cheap tools is now making it easy to create digital video. There were more than 10 billion views of video on YouTube in September. The most popular videos were watched as many times as any blockbuster movie. Many are mashups of existing video material. Most vernacular video makers start with the tools of Movie Maker or iMovie, or with Web-based video editing software like Jumpcut. They take soundtracks found online, or recorded in their bedrooms, cut and reorder scenes, enter text and then layer in a new story or novel point of view. Remixing commercials is rampant. A typical creation might artfully combine the audio of a Budweiser “Wassup” commercial with visuals from “The Simpsons” (or the Teletubbies or “Lord of the Rings”). Recutting movie trailers allows unknown auteurs to turn a comedy into a horror flick, or vice versa.
    • Rachel Cofer
      Rachel Cofer on 23 Sep 09
       
      The use of free or small priced, easy-to-use editing software turns anyone into a moviemaker. In high school, I got paid to make little slideshows for family events. When people asked what I used, assuming it was something technologically hard to understand, they were stunned to find it was the simple Windows Movie Maker. Then with the advent of YouTube and other video sharing websites, everyone could sign up for a "director's" account just to add more videos.
  • The collective intelligence of humans can also be used to make a film more accessible. Avid fans dissect popular movies scene by scene. With maniacal attention to detail, movie enthusiasts will extract bits of dialogue, catalog breaks in continuity, tag appearances of actors and track a thousand other traits. To date most fan responses appear in text form, on sites like the Internet Movie Database. But increasingly fans respond to video with video. The Web site Seesmic encourages “video conversations” by enabling users to reply to one video clip with their own video clip. The site organizes the sprawling threads of these visual chats so that they can be read like a paragraph of dialogue.
    • Rachel Cofer
      Rachel Cofer on 23 Sep 09
       
      The Internet truly is a an online "community" and just like in the real world people love to break down tv shows and movies. Websites with message boards and forums allow you to critique and praise scenes, lines, and actors. However, new technology can allow you to post the specific movie and even comment on a particular time or scene. Also, you can post your commentary as your own video.
  • When technology shifts, it bends the culture. Once, long ago, culture revolved around the spoken word. The oral skills of memorization, recitation and rhetoric instilled in societies a reverence for the past, the ambiguous, the ornate and the subjective. Then, about 500 years ago, orality was overthrown by technology.
    • Casey Reilly
      Casey Reilly on 24 Sep 09
       
      today it seems almost primitive to write someone a letter, and tell someone something in person when you could just email, txt or call them. thats the world we live in today, oral skills and the ability to speak well which is one of the best abilities a singular person could have are being deminished. there once was a time when an entire nation could be rallied by the voice of a person.
  • In fact, the habits of the mashup are borrowed from textual literacy. You cut and paste words on a page. You quote verbatim from an expert. You paraphrase a lovely expression. You add a layer of detail found elsewhere. You borrow the structure from one work to use as your own. You move frames around as if they were phrases.
    • Casey Reilly
      Casey Reilly on 24 Sep 09
       
      It is almost like we have been trained our whole lives to be children of the screen. with movie editing and construction so much like textual literacy it is easy for someone to make the transaction. you can be an amazing writter and once you are able to get the proper software you can be a movie maker in no time and making youtube hits.
  • For directors who speak this new cinematographic language, even the most photo-realistic scenes are tweaked, remade and written over frame by frame. Filmmaking is thus liberated from the stranglehold of photography. Gone is the frustrating method of trying to capture reality with one or two takes of expensive film and then creating your fantasy from whatever you get.
    • Casey Reilly
      Casey Reilly on 24 Sep 09
       
      even for photographers the screen and movie advance is invading their teritory. most pictures today are already being digitaly touched up and layerd to be better, but why and try get a single perfact picture when you can fitso much more into a movie and capture so much more images. Today not many people only want a singular image that can go so far even with interpratation, they want an entire sequence of events that tell stories in themselves.
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