1. Does the design of the interface force the users attention to follow certain lines of focus as opposed to others?

– think of the interface as a visual space that presents all relation and hierarchy in the work

– it doesn’t show the lists of keywords, numbers of videos, etc.; what not to show is as important as what is shown

– Korsakow is composed of thumbnails, videos and text, everything is basic

– in Korsakow, it is more than just showing but asking viewers to explore on the creators’ behalf

– the design is again similar to seduction; do not tell or explain things in the beginning, let them explore and find things out

 

2. What are the key considerations when constructing a multilinear work?

– how to connect the video clips; what are the different layers and threads

– think about the design not only in temporal but also a sense of spatial

– how do I want it to end; is the work going to end or last forever

– draw map of the relations until I start building, the direction or shape comes in the process of building it 

– learn to listen to the material

– what material is being filmed; and in what kind of media form (e.g. visual or audio)

– the smaller and more abstract material, the more possibilities to mix and match with other things

– risk; it is taking risk to construct a thing because we have no idea what it will look like next, yet we may discover unexpected connections

 

3. Luers talks about databases in K-Films working on relational knowledge, and as such you can replicate narrative film techniques like flashback and montage. However is this disregarding the K-Film’s intention of exploring non-narrative?

– ideas of using flashbacks because the past generates meanings

– we can still explore small narratives in individual SNU

– narrative film has a fixed timeline going on in it therefore it is easy to do flashback; Korsakow does not have a fixed timeline

– montage is more like creating explicitly or implicitly a meaning between images