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6 January, 2009
CTCS505-Final - Annotated Video
A video essay about interactive media, literacy and vocabulary, and games. Interviews with Malcolm McCullough, Liz Goodman, Doug Church, Jessica Hammer and Greg Costikyan.
CTCS505Final - 10.5 minute sixty megabyte Quicktime
Doug Church's sentiments here are shorter echoes of an interview on Gamasutra
Self-Critique:
I thought of this as a video essay. I would write a paper, opinion intertwined with expertise with transcribed interviews. But instead I mingled them; writing my paper on top of, and in between the talking heads. It's a lot of text to absorb - perhaps it would be better read as a voice over, or with my narrator's face on-screen. I worked to keep the words and lines short, so it would have a sort of declarative quality. At the same time, I couched my voice, such that I'm mostly editing the words of my speakers and posing questions. This is an opinion piece, like all documentary, but not without occluding information I believe.
There's a moment when a photograph of Walter Ong is superimposed on the screen - if I had more time to put into this, I think I would work to add more multimedia layers, photos to illustrate the examples and points cited by the speakers. I say that without having watched the film downloaded over the net - I'm not sure how text and pictures layering plays in a small window.
I was working to make straight talking heads lively I guess. I was blessed by people speaking here with strong conviction. I have years of footage now from travels in Japan, Finland, the US and Canada asking people about video games and interactive media. Not to mention interviews Ryan Junell and I have done at E3, GDC, and the Indie Game Jam over the years. I can see myself making versions of this video here for years to come - mixing and remixing perspectives and information. The challenge for me is to imagine what the screen might look like - just the speaker? Or the speaker, talking over or behind something.
This was a final project for Julian Bleecker's Critical Studies of Interactive Media class. I very much enjoyed reading Manuel Castells, re-reading Rules of Play. We had great speakers too, and I ended up with some useful class notes. I worked up a version of the film that incorporated notes from class running over the speakers, and I was going to add quotes from the reading. But I decided instead to use text here primarily to reinforce the sentiments of the speakers.
A video essay, or you could call it annotated video. Like Pop Up Video, as a final project for a critical studies in interactive media class.
Posted by justin at December 3, 2004 10:12 AM
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