Taxonomies

What do you want your work to do? Don’t think in definitions. Let it look after itself.

How do documentary practitioners work in relation to copyright?

Terms and conditions- If you are participating in a project such as the Johnny Cash project. You are agreeing to the terms and conditions set out by the creator or lawyer etc.

Realise forms and appropriate documentation is standard.

External vs Internal work. Second life (internal), Korsakov (external)

If you’re a film maker: Everything you compose is a rectangle. What can I do inside a rectangle computationally .

Despite the first lecture being mostly an introduction to Integrated Media 1, we were given a brief look at the software Korsakow and what it is about. Korsakow’s no linear style of documenting a subject presents an interesting modern take on film making. Upon seeing some demonstrations I immediately thought of positives and negatives that could arise when using this software. The no linear format would allow for me to tailor multiple different directions my documentary could go in. This would mean that my audience may not see everything there is to see the first time they view my documentary and may as a result have a different experience viewing it a second time. However this also presents a negative that one person may view your Korsakow and not see all there is to see and have a worse experience then they should have had. I think the biggest challenge with this software will be the way in which you construct the audience’s path. One wrong direction and the audience could become confused.

This modern style of documentary making is still very scarce. I have only witnessed similar interactive experiences a hand full of times. One that springs to mind is the behind the scenes documentary disc included with the blu ray Prometheus (2012) which allowed you to view parts of the behind the scenes in different orders and even click away like you were accessing a real sci fi data base. This was a neat feature at first but after a short time I was tempted to hit the “play all “button. Only time will tell if my experience with Korsakow will be the same.

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