Box of spanners – Week 9 Lecture notes

  • A graphic, symbol based method of story telling being born of video and related media?
  • We don’t need to teach people how to read an image – we need to stop privileging the written word above all else – it’s not happening: image making is as old as time.
  • Language has a brief history of ascendency, but has never ruled over the ‘stuff’
  • There are lots of modes of storytelling independent of language.
  • No one has to teach kids how to use phones and tablets –> in fact I found having to actually read the Korsakow manual and FAQs before understanding how to use the program so foreign because it’s not something I’m used to doing with new software. It usually is a matter of looking at the icons and working things out, looking up shortcuts and other things from time to time, not a case of having to read the whole manual before beginning.
  • Experience economies – eg, “reality ‘TV'”, we can vote, go online for more content, etc etc
  • What we are selling is our knowledge and expertise. Soft skills earn our career, not the box of spanners (eg Korsakow)
  • Popcorn – docos with participatory elements
  • There is no permanence on the web – links will disappear and work that relies on external media will break
  • The infinity of lists – Umburto Eco book
  • Lists have no end, that is why it is offered as an alternative to narrative. Any end is given only because it’s pragmatic
  • In our K films the audience will build their own mosaics

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