back from the break – week 8 lecture

this week’s lecture was all about interpretation and being creative when it comes to K-films.

my favourite point that Adrian made was that without constraint, you can’t have creativity. this was really interesting to consider because normally when we are given task with which to work around, we can find (and often complain that) it is limiting our creative ability to create what we want. but this was a different take on things. being given a constraint gives us something to work around and towards. it allows us to think outside the box of what it could simply be and to create something much more interesting. without a constraint to guide us, we are limited to simply what we can think of. but if we are given a limit, suddenly we have to think about what we couldn’t just think of, something new. the constraints allow for interpretation and that’s what makes them so creatively accessible, everyone can interpret them differently.

that brings us to the next major part of the symposium lecture, whether interpretation can transfer onto a k-film when making an essay. while any type of text allows for a huge amount of individual interpretation from any viewer, k-films allow a far greater level of subjectivity than a normal film or essay by allowing the viewer to decide what they will experience and when. interpretation can never be controlled by the creator so k-films and k-film essays use this to their advantage to create for a more in depth of exploring ideas on a multi linear plane. there is so much more effort required to make a liner essay, in a true essay, all thoughts should be connected. this is why multi linear works, it allows all the different ideas to be connected to anything the relate to, not just the next point.

one final great point from the lecture was that multi linear k-films and essays mirror the way we as humans experience, understand and interpret the world. our world is made by association and that is how korsakow functions. as adrian said, “it makes thinking out loud visible”

how much control does the audience have? – week 5

the big topic in this week’s readings and lecture was the question of how much can we control what the audience interprets from our content? in reality, there are different levels of control that we can have depending on what the story is, how we communicate it and who is receiving it. but overall, you can never really be sure of how an audience will interpret your story or how much of it they will see, read, understand or change.

an interesting article in regards to this discussion is one describing the theory of “Active audiences”. the article/extract, which can be found here (you may need an emit login to view it, sorry) discusses how audience receive and restructure and rebroadcast any media they obtain. audiences are not passive so when we are making our media and our stories and our content, especially in the case of k-films, we must be aware that what we make can be interpreted in absolutely any way. while, as is evident in the article, the level of reinterpretation may vary between audience members, the theory is that every single person will interpret it not only different from the way the producer intended but from the next person to receive the text as well.