During this week’s Thursday’s class, we were presented with several online projects used to convey, sway, motivate, or entertain the users and consumers.

One of the projects was a simple tool that allowed people to communicate without the need of registering or creating a new account. This separates itself from the torrent of programmes and apps to allow people to communicate from all over the world with the exception of creating an online account, one might have already too many accounts to keep track of these day. Hence this platform might come in handy for such situation. You can access the free website here.

Having seen the website put to use by my fellow classmates and tutor, made me recall an episode of Modern Family, called, Connection Lost. Which in my opinion is one of the best episodes of the series, just for the fact that the entire episode was based off Claire’s computer screen, and it shows her communicating with her family through Facetime and texts messages as she stalks her daughter’s (Haley) Facebook account to find out of her whereabouts. The episode exhibits almost all of the 5 principles that Manovich has mentioned in the readings, which mind boggles me how far we’ve come, not just in terms of modern technology, but filmmaking and script writing as well. In television series, there is always a “bottle” episode where the entire episode takes place in a single location, the iconic “Fly” episode of Breaking Bad is prime example. In this case, this episode of Modern Family does takes place in a single location, however, not a physical one, but in the realm’s of Claire’s computer. Which some might argue is a gateway through into a whole different dimension and opportunities to explore, a whole new virtual location, if you will.

This inspires me to do something similar or perhaps explore the possibility of doing screen capture or screen recording in relation to being interactive. The content of what I will be actually recording or capturing isn’t really clear at the moment, as I might have to go through several discussions with my group mate to see if we are on the same page with our research ideas. However, I am pretty confident we would like to tackle the formal quality of interactivity, hyperlinks, and if possible, branch out into exploring hypermedia.