Blognotes on 7/03

Composite - putting together media objects from different sources

What's the difference between compositing and montage?
- Compositing seeks to reality whereas montage takes the freedom of creating imaginary world.

But what's similar?
- Pastiche (dramatic, literary, or musical piece openly imitating the previous works of other artists, often with satirical intent), quotation, e.g. montage looks funny but it points to some real event. (?)

Assingment
...was to put together a composite or montage. We decided to go for the good-old SuperAnx.

Blognotes on 28/02

Narrating is a synonym for story telling. Story telling is the oldest media. Narrative has a free ordering of elements.

Cinema and novel follow the same pattern - there's one narrative chosen. In films is tradition of making different versions for the film for distribution (director's cut, etc.).

A fabula is the chronological reconstruction of all the events of a nonchronological plot in a film (In contrast to syuzhet). ex: Pulp Fiction, Citizen Kane. (It always have to be linear.)

There is no neutral storytelling. There are value choices (taking sides).

Montage is in every story - every video, text, etc.

Data - A pile of papers on desk can not be database, as it's not indexed.

Narrative can be viewed as a 1D (one-dimensional) projection.