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Symposium 10 Notes

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Some good points taken note of at the lecture:

  • Some key considerations of creating a multimedia work according to Hannah is how the clips are linked together and how the interface reflects that. She states that, ‘it’s not just creating a story, but going through a process of expanding ,not making it narrower’. Whether it’s going to end or goes forever. While Jasmine notes the different layers in a K-Film and how you can form connections through the clips. Seth notes that some considerations to consider in creating a Korsakow film includes the consistencies of the interactive documentary, how films are designed and having multiple relations with one another, the fragmentation of the K-Film and how it is combine with the taxonomy in the creation of a K-Film. On the other hand, Adrian argues that, ‘if you don’t listen to the material, your work will not be as good as you believe’.
  • Risks in K-Films is related to linearity and emergence.
  • K-Films may reference to semiotics -‘What can I make it mean? How can language can enhance it the documentary?’
  • Is having an end SNU is a good idea to make a film have a conclusion? Not necessary. You can design and construct your K-Film to have a micro-conclusion throughout the duration of the film. You can have an end SNU, but maybe a lot of stories don’t have endings.
  • Sound tracks and image tracks in Korsakow can play a sounds independently of the K-Film.

Symposium 10

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Some good points taken note of at the lecture:

  • Think of K-Films as having a poetic relationships, also, the creation of relationships is not literal.
  • We can emphasis moments of contemplation through the ambiguity of key-wording and listing as well as the design of the interface of K-Films.
  • Repetition is fundamental to your learning and outcome, e.g. if you paint a portrait, you’ll paint again as you want to embrace your skills to make yourself better.
  • Media literacy – aesthetic decision, economic decision, etc. act as “glue” for filmmakers who decide on cohesion in their films.
  • The correlation of emotional impact and logical elements in K-Films – you can create mood rhythms based on keywords, you can use  juxtaposition as an approach to create an emotional aspect; happy vs. sad, angry vs. depressed, to your K-Films.
  • Showing vs. telling – Don’t think you are describing an emotion but think of it as your audience experiencing an emotion, you are building a way to experience something. How do you plan to satisfy your audience experience of watching your film?
  • Having a good theme across your K-film will make your film stronger and concise, e.g. the theme of body parts or colours.
  • Themes, ideas and proposition, the use of patterns to explore these – infer this rather than showing it.
  • How would you like to portray the K-Film? What would you like to represent? What works?
  • The relationship of theme and pattern: how your content explores what that theme is.
  • Adrain reference a K-Film to a dance, ‘A K-Film is a choreography, its a dance’ – he stresses that video clips are part of a dance, the interface can be the composition (of the dance) and the parts have multiple meanings.
  • ‘You’re actually correlating certain possibilities, a set of possible relations of each clip linking to another, you have enormous control over what the audience sees in your K-Film.’ – Adrain says in relations to the implications of juxtapositioning of shots and the forming of it meanings.
  • A K-Film explains what we see in the work – it is opening up a new perspective for the audience to experience.
  • When you watch a K-Film,  you look for meaning and not for narrative or a conclusion. The framework must be contextualise and the context needs to adequate.
  • What determines the relationship of the meaning of a shot? Is the meaning lost?
  • Don’t confuse the meaning to the shot – the meaning lives outside the shot.

 

Look Up

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The YouTube short film ‘Look Up’ went viral on the internet since it was first published on April 25th 2014, so far gaining around 32 million views online.

Why?

Because the film explores the artefact of a mobile phone.

The films makes an implication that we are all slaves to our own creative innovations. That, we’ve become zombies obsess with technology and social media and the way it connects us people. The film also explores how we are anti-social when we are surrounded by people, which may lead to the loneliness we feel deep within while we are connecting with other people.

TED Talk: Bring On The Learning Evolution

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Bring on the learning evolution

Bring on the learning evolution

The speaker of the TED Talk guest is Ken Robinson and he explores the learning evolution in education, arguing that we are living organic lives. Robinson suggests that schools and colleges must cultivate students creativity for the future.

Robison discusses the idea of linearity in his speech, making the statement the following statement:

‘Life is not linear , its organic. We create our lives semiotically as we explore our talents in relations to the circumstances they help to create for us. But you know, we are become more obsess with this linear narrative, and probably the pinnacle of this is getting you an education at college.’

We know the routine of our daily lives, that the rhythm of our lives are not dictated by linearity and expectations but by spontaneity.

Robinson’s statement somewhat relates to our Korsakow films, that is, that we don’t know what we are going to watch or when we do. What we do know however, is the emerging pattern of the evolution of a Korsakow film as we actively immerse ourselves by watching it. For example, if a Korkakow film is based on the pattern of ‘lists’, as we engage ourselves in the interactive documentary, we can begin to get a sense of what the filmmaker is trying to show us. Such as, if the Korsakow film was about a list of farm animals, viewers will be watching clip-lets of animals feeding in barnyards and playing in mud, etc.

This TED Talk was incredibly engaging to watch. Robinson speaks plain English, making the video more understandable, sometimes, I do have trouble understanding what speakers are talking about. His charisma enthrals his audience, making them laugh with his honest small jokes, maybe it’s mainly because his pure British accent. To me, it’s all about his charm that makes the video effortless to watch.

So far, the video has been watched by a total of around 4,853,000 people from around the world.

Click on the link below, Robinson is worth a watch.

http://www.ted.com/talks/sir_ken_robinson_bring_on_the_revolution?utm_medium=on.ted.com-facebook-share&utm_campaign=&utm_source=facebook.com&awesm=on.ted.com_g0D9g&utm_content=awesm-publisher#t-557238

Sinking the Ship

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Lately, I’ve been a bit consumed by TED Talk videos. Recently, I’ve watched a TED Talk with James Cameron as the speaker, he talks about his life experience both as a scuba diver and a filmmaker. As a child growing up, he loved exploring the great outdoors and drawing up strange creatures inspired by all the science fiction books he read. He had aspired to be a scuba diver as a teenager, but managed to be a world-renown director as an adult. His curiosities with the ocean have always fascinated Cameron. Using his wild imagination, he fantasized and managed to create and built his films through his vision, this is evident in Cameron’s blockbuster films such as Avatar and Titanic. To Cameron, science fiction is a form of escape. Cameron makes the impossible, possible. The thrill of constructing an entirely whole new world, a world that no one has seen before, pushing the limits of human creativity. 

Just like Korsakow, we are constantly pushing ourselves to be creative on the simple platform. Cameron notes that anyone can create anything out of their imagination, it’s all about how we go forth and see whether we use our imagination as a stepping stone to build something. The possibilities of lists in Korsarkow may be poetic and infinite, it’s about how comply with patterns and narratives that makes our K-Films interesting and create purpose.