1. 1 Lecture 10: High-tech, Low-tech: Professor Victoria Meng What do “emerging digital media” look and sound like?

2. 2 Lecture Topics Forms and Styles “I’m Sorry Dave, I’m Afraid I Can’t Do That” (McClean, 2007) “The Eye of the Frog” (Tudor, 2008) Screenings and film clips

3. 3 Key Term: Form Check their dictionary definitions! Which do you think is closest to the ones we use?

4. 4 Key Term: Form Form Format

5. 5 Key Term: Form What is a movie?

6. 6 Reading 2: McClean Form Format > Film form: “the total system that the viewer perceives in the film.” (Film Art, quoted in McClean, 50) What is digital media form?

7. 7 Key Term: Form

8. 8 Form: all the properties and elements of the media under study, and how these properties and elements relate to each other. Medium specificity is the other side of Medium continuity.

9. 9 Reading 2: McClean > Shilo McClean, 2007

10. 10 Concept: Media Continuity > “Much of the documentation and analysis of physical camera techniques and their effects pertains to computer-generated camera practice, if for no other reason than that these techniques and the artifacts of the physical technology have set the standard for how the virtual camera is used.” (51)

11. 11 Concept: Media Continuity > How to Kill a Mockingbird (Scodary and Benitez, 2004)

12. 12 Concept: Media Extensions > DVFx: digital visual effects. 1. Media continuity as an antidote to technological determinism. 2. Media extend human abilities. - Virtual cameras - CG extras and actor - Morphs

13. 13 Concept: Digital Specificity > 3. Digital visual effects have specific properties that have changed how we produce and perceive movies (and other motion picture media).

14. 14 Concept: Digital Specificity > Dynasty, season 3 (1983)

15. 15 Concept: Digital Specificity > Dynasty, season 3 (1983)

16. 16 Concept: Digital Style > Veronica Mars, season 2 (2005)

17. 17 Concept: Digital Style > Veronica Mars, season 3 (2006)

18. 18 Readings 1 and 2 > Digital visual effects have specific properties that have changed how we produce and perceive motion picture media and the world.

19. 19 Readings 1 and 2 > Digital visual effects have specific properties that have changed how we produce and perceive motion picture media and the world. Digital media are not neutral. Composite space/time can lead to disembodiment.

20. 20 Real Space, Real Time, and Real People > 2001: A Space Odyssey, (Kubrick, 1968)

21. End of Lecture 10 Next Lecture: David’s Slingshot: Do digital media help the underdog? 21