Week 4.
So I read Lauren’s post about, well, everything. Everything in detail that was covered in the lecture and readings and abstract ideas. And everything. Very long post, it was. AND ALSO VERY INSIGHTFUL AND COOL.
I’m going to focus on her discussion of the ‘film’ title, because it personally intrigues me. Lauren discusses Adrian’s point about how film is not film anymore. What we ‘film’ using our phones doesn’t even classify as film. Firstly because it’s not being recorded on film. Nor can we really call it a video because, well, it’s not a physical video. That title is, in fact, constraining us. Lauren contemplates what we should call it instead, settling on ‘moving image’ or ‘MI’ for short. Then I realised. Movie. Mov-ie. Move-ie. Moving-image.
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Sorry I just had a minor mental implosion. I’m back now.
Some interesting ideas. Very little moving image media uses film these days. So why do we keep calling it film? We have film films. Then we have non-film films. Then we have television. Electronic videos. Online electronic videos. Phone cameras. Phone edit suites. Phone videos. Interactive videos. Pretty sure I’ve skipped a heap of worthy mentions but you get the idea!
I’m using the word video for lack of better word (I would use ‘movie’, having just realised its likely word origin, but that word has now become synonymous with film. Like movie-films. See? I can’t even describe ‘film’ without using the word ‘movie’.)
Anywho, the point is that we’re not dealing with film anymore. We’ve moved way further than that. It’s absurd to try to define Korsakow as film. Even YouTube clips as films. Even phone videos as films. We need to drop the term. It’s about time we coined a new term for video (for lack of better word) in the digital, technological, online, electronic, interactive era we are in. And we need a new term for the moving image in general. Just ’cause it’s all too confusin’. What about ‘vid’? It’s shorthand. Easy. Simple. It’s just like what advertisers did with chocolate that wasn’t real chocolate. They called it ‘choc’. Genius.