Thursday 6 October 2011

First Lecture with Gary Barker - on Lectures... and Transmedia

So apparently taking notes down is very important during a lecture, so i can blog about it later in my own time... not my definition of fun but such as life.
Gary told us taking down notes is like an taking down evidence, well thank you LA Noire for teaching me how to take down evidence. GETTING TO THE POINT!

Transmedia
Transmedia production is as old as human beings, stories have been the content of our lives and their narratives are played in a different media as they're invented, then put down on paper and printed.
From oral tradition, to song, to painted image, to sculpture, to written text, to printed page to photographs, to film to games and so on...
Different media is used for different things, computer programmes for example; Myer is used to create better effects with hair than using illustrator or photoshop.
When the CD came out, games and game development changed. Allowing the structure of games to change for example, GTA heading down one path, will determine one route of the game you will end up taking and CD's allow you to do that.
Marshall Mcluhan wrote a book 'The Medium is the Message'. He tells us that all media is an extension of us, electronic media is an extension of the ear and brain. I think message he's attempting at getting across is that our imagination is a form of media and the way we perceive it. Actually getting it down on paper, or computer, is due to what we hear see and imagine,

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