Monday 23 March 2015

work progress

we have written a story. this will be a story of soil. we still struggle with a choice of the final format - film or photo essay. the choice very much depends on technical support and time constraints. although film seems to me more concise, it is also has a certain problem - it is much more difficult to include various sorts of materials we have collected due both technical, and copyright issues. Film looks to me now as more autonomous project in which the author has to do more and create content. the more usual genre of essay seems to be more hybrid, open to incorporation of various things, including multimedia through references. this is because the reader seems to be a more active and unrestricted actor, in comparison to viewer of the film. the latter, especially if accompanied by other viewers (like during our screenings at class) is disciplined to watch the film from the beginning to end. but the reader can just scan through photos, or read some bits, choose to follow references or not. if i could i would have made this projects in a form of a video game :) so that the viewer would have been obliged to make decisions on what thread of the story she wanted to follow.
maybe we can think about the technical possibilities of this. but I doubt we can do it in such a short time. 

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