This week’s lecture focused on language. It was discussed how language does not rule everything, there was humans communicating long before language. Images are a medium to communicate that does not use the conventions of language. Unlike language, images are not governed by a strict set of rules, instead it is up to the creator how they want to present something.

Images can transcend language barriers. You can show people from primitive tribes feature films and they will gather a basic understanding. Despite never experiencing anything like it. There are many ways to create meaning from images but we all create some meaning. This is unlike language. I cannot create any meaning from looking at Vietnamese writing. I have no understanding of it.

The lecture also touched on whether the lists in our K films can be infinite. I believe this to be true. I can create a list of me starting up my computer. Although the initial ideas I will be thinking of e.g. reaching down, pressing the computer button etc. only have so many possibilities you can dive deeper into how the power button operates and create a list about that or even about the muscles my hand is using to perform this task. Despite the list not having a strong theme there is a correlation between its parts and even though it may not be interesting, it is still limitless.

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–          Cinema is language based. American cinema can be viewed all around the world because image is a language.

–          Image is usually self-explanatory

–          Mass printing is only 400 years old. Images have been around for hundreds of thousands of years.

–          Language does not rule the universe

–          Popcorn Maker: other software to create interactive documentaries.

–          K films don’t have time lines, pop corn does, making it linear.

–          Zeegas another program similar to Korsakow

–          Do lists create infinite possibilities? We are not working in a structure that is linear. Depending on your theme there can be a limit.

In the lecture we discussed how the conventional method of releasing feature films and Television shows is dying. YouTube video such as Gangnam style are reeling in billions of viewers compared to the 14 million currently watching the hit TV series Game of thrones .

Now motion picture studios are looking to emulate this no online trend. Films like Joe Dirt 2 are planing to be released online, making money off ad revenue, rather than the usual mainstream theater release. Another example adopting this format is ABC who have now chosen to release their popular new series Jonah from Tonga on their online service ABC iView, before broadcasting it on television .The industry is evolving, so should we.

Image Source: http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/201103/r734935_5960068.jpg

For our class presentation, my group and I did a rough draft of our korsakow final project. This used a unique design coined by my group member Troy, which I have never seen before.

We wanted to make our project feel as though you are looking at photographs on a wall and remembering past memories / events about your home down. To achieve this we used a pre rendered back ground of a house wall and added frames around each video preview. We had some difficulty when it came to creating SNUs that would allow the viewer to click on one of the photo previews and be shown it on a different screen and then be brought back to the original photo wall collage. After careful consideration we have decided that we need to think about the complexity of our project. We believe that we may have bitten off more than we can chew. A simple interface would be easier for the viewer and us.

Our tutor also advised us that using backgrounds in Korsakow films rather than the plain black often looks, well, crappy. And that it is probably a better idea to ditch the frame borders around the video previews.