MCC-UE 3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Digital Cinema, Digital Camera, Digital Image
27 Apr 2016
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The medium is understood relationally, according to how it is constituted through its complementarity or distinction to other media (3) Phase 1: synonymous with television (visual transmission) Phase 3: broad category of digital moving images (formats range from web tv to digital cinema, era of convergence) Medium of video today is not just defined by space, materiality, industry, or aesthetics, but by everyday, commonsense ideas about its cultural status (75,3) New digital media remediate analog media netflix and youtube are efforts at the remediation of cinema and television (73) Ideas about television, cinema, and video from the era of videotape formed a foundation of meaning for later [digital] understandings of these categories (94) Affordances of video and period of interpretive flexibility (phase 2, newman ch. 3) Timeshiftimg: record tv programs for later viewing (e. g. across time zones) Vcr and participatory viewing: pause/freeze frame, fast-forward, repeated viewing, erasing. Personal recording of tv shows or other videos; bootlegging.
