Assignment four – set reading
This article is written by Judith Aston & Sandra Gaudenzi. When I am producing an interactive documentary, I considered why I want to make an interactive documentary rather than a traditional documentary? Also, the differences between those types of documentary works. In the reading, it said “ interactivity is seen as a means through which the viewer is positioned within the artifact itself, demanding him, or her, to play an active role in the negotiation of the ‘reality’ being conveyed through the i-doc. ” When I create an online documentary, I defiantly want to know the audiences’ reaction base on my project. And integrative online project requires physical action to take place between the use and the digital artifact. It involves a human-computer interface, going beyond the act of interpretation to create feedback loops with the digital system itself. I want my media project with the feedback of people, it not just a work than I need to get my grade on. I guess with interactive online production, it also shows that someone cares about your work, someone is interested in your work. Judith Aston and Sandra Gaudenzi argue that there is four modes in an integrative i-doc, the conversational mode, the hypertext mode, the participative mode and the experiential made.
Our project asks for where the distinction between the virtual and the physical becomes blurred. We use the movement of the hand to create flows between landscapes, which can be explored we use movements connect with spaces. The project will challenge users sender and their enacted perception of the world.
“each one mode can be seen as affording a different construction of ‘reality’.” Indeed, interactive i-doc gives the user an exploratory role, it makes a two-way relationship between the digital project and the users. The i-docs should be seen as an open and interdisciplinary process within a field of endeavor that is necessarily fluid, dynamic and in constant flux. It creates a more authored and cohesive approach, out of which documentary meaning can be generated. Our project definitely wants to create a sense that can let audiences experiencing the work and the connection between real world.
The meaning of this research project moves beyond than just an assignment, it asks me to consider why I want to do an interactive project and the meaning of the project for myself. Moreover, I understand the development of documentary and media industry. Technologies allow media producer to create something rather than digital media, it requires the connection between producers and users, in the other word, digital media can be seen more “reality”.
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