Seth made several points in the lecture today which I think are relevant, particularly to the looming final project.
As was stated most blogs and vlogs are linear in nature. I know that I myself think in a very linear fashion and it is something that I am aware of in the work that I produce for networked media and is something I am trying to steer away from. Altough there is nothing wrong with a linear format, the web is a tool that allows, to a much greater degree than other mediums, a networked approach to media. One of the problems with my hypertext essay, as I believe (we haven’t recieved marks as yet) is that despite it being broken into various chunks that could be viewed in any particular order, the layout of the page and navigation through them was still too linear. As Adrain Miles said in the clips featured in todays lecture, if something can be lifted from the web and put into another medium, say projected in some format or screened in another way, without qualative change to the piece it is essentially television or cinema. It is the very nature of the web that makes it perfect for a networked approach, and allows choices that are just not possible in other formats.
Having watched Seths examples I now realise the improtance of fragmenting, or experimenting with ideas. How can we turn a linear idea into a fragmented one that lends itself better to networked media? What will work best in my final project? What’s the relationship between the fragments? Does audio now play a more important role, especially in regards to video logging of a non linear nature?
These are all questions I will have to keep in mind when approaching the next assesment task.
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Joe Guario: Web Designer
50% of web design and web production management is managing people and keeping things on track, the other 50% is hands on work and creative direction.
In the 90′s there was alot of excitment about the way you could tell stories through text, especially using hypertext and HTML coding, which lead to a lot of experimentations. For the examples used in the lecture click here and here.
In regards to HTML code and web design:
Screens/Typefaces/Colours
- Kerning – the spacing between the letters
- Leading – the spacing between the lines
- Tracking – the space between the words
Remember to stick to a limited use of fonts, choose simple type faces that are easy to read, and try to keep one font for the headings and only one or two for the body of the page, thus reducing confusion and distraction when viewing the site. Also the typeface will drive the ‘feel’ of the page, so try to pick something that reflects what you are trying to acheive.
For Web browser statistic, click here.
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Haven’t posted in awhile. Had to return home to Hamilton on the weekend due to a death in the family.
Didn’t make it to the lecture on Monday, but managed to borrow somones notes.
In print there are no ‘single’ or original texts, they are always immersed or connected (not physically like hypertext) to other previous, and future texts. The author is regarded as the ‘authority’ in regard to the particular piece, and has a certain degree of control over the reader, certainly more so than they would in a hypertext format. Text/print ‘emphasise the individual’.
In regards to authors of print text, it is somewhat useful to regard them as a kind of musicians (not entirely sure about this bit, will have to have it explained properly as I wasn’t there fot the explination in the lecture)
LINKS
Without links it is impossible to network. They are connections between a hypertexts various parts, and being able to connect information effectively is a key skill in regards to networked Media.
So that’s what I could get out of the notes. Not complaining by any means, thankyou to Claire for letting me borrow them, but unfortunately it’s hard to get alot out of notes on something you weren’t there to attend and thus get the full scope of things.
In regards to the project, I believe I may have located an old Year 12 Literature essay that might do nicely, will have to give it a crack.
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Ok, so this is my first post in two weeks. I have to admit that I wasn’t in Melbourne last week, so I missed the lecture and the class, and when I tried o log on from home and post I couldn’t connect. I blame my crummy DoDo Dial Up connection, so it isn’t slackness on my part.
Not entirely…
So when I got to the lecture yesterday there was a fairly amusing video of a brief history of the net playing. I missed the first three minutes or so, but I decided to do a little research. I don’t know how acurate this information is, but you get that.
For a more thorough history
I thought it was pretty cool that Pizza Hut started offering an order service through their website in 1994. I was still using those crazy computers with the black screen and green text back then, and the only game they had was Parcel Man!
