history and film
One of the things I took away from last weeks leacture by Hart Cohen on Theodor Strehlow and the aboriginal histories was the importance of film and storytelling in getting messages about not only indigenous cultures but also the history of civilizations that are not often studied. Film and literature have the ability to excite an audience about a subject they may not have previously thought about…
Storytelling and Databases
The class provided great insight into what digitization can do to help preserve rare and valuable national treasures like Theodor Strehlow’s films documenting Aboriginal life and tradition. Personally, I really enjoy storytelling and Hart’s personal story of how he came across the ‘cursed’ research center and ended up finding his calling, intrigued me. His stor…
Database Programming?
When looking back on Hart’s lecture on creating a database for aboriginal videos and media materials, I started to think about the usage of database systems in general and how often we use databases, like Google search engines and library book searches in so far as we take the background work that went into the database for granted.
For instance, take this software we are currently us…
A cultural journey
Last week’s session gave us the opportunity to go back in time to early twentieth century Central Australia. It was a fascinating look into a world that could have been long forgotten had it not been for Hart Cohen’s serendipitous visit to the Strehlow Research Centre in Alice Springs. While there he discovered that Strehlow, an archaeologist who collected a significant amount of…
Transmedia storytelling, fanfiction and Buffy
Who would have thought transmedia storytelling could open up into such a complex and mind bending area? If I’d been asked to explain the concept over a week ago, I would have said a story that goes across a number of mediums to promote and further develop the story. Simple. Well it turns out that it is and it isn’t.Dr Colin Harvey presented his taxonomy of transmedia storytelling at th…
Transmedia and Buffy
Transmedia storytelling is not simply putting the same story on multiple mediums but using different mediums to tell different parts of the story aswell. One example of this is Joss Whedon’s ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’. Buffy began as a film produced in 1992 written by Whedon but directed by Fran Rubel Kuzui and in 1997 became the television show many people know staring Sarah Mic…
Transmedia storytelling - Dexter
There are many great examples of transmedia storytelling out there at the moment and Dexter is certainly one of them.
Dexter is a television series that started out based on the novel ‘Darkly dreaming Dexter’. It focuses on a vigilante serial killer. The transmedia aspect of this show is large and varied. Some of these include:
* ‘Dexter: early cuts’ animated…
Who Owns Personal Blogs?
Recently, one of my favourite blogs – one I visit nearly every day as a good source of information – was taken down because a photographer was upset by this blogger taking their photos. This particular blog is based on a particular celebrity and this celebrity’s many sightings. When I went on the blog yesterday, all I found was one blog entry (the rest were dele…
A parallel universe
I walked away from Colin Harvey’s lecture last week ( 2/5/2012) with a bundle of insights and questions.Insight 1#: I must live in a parallel universe. I have not watched any of the TV or film examples Colin alluded to. I’ve tried to watch Dr Who, but tired quickly of its kinetic pace and visual histrionics. I’m not a science fiction/fantasy fan, in any trans media domain. I&rsqu…
Transmedia or Adaptation? I'm Not Sure Here...
I’m a Twilight fan. Yes me, a 28-year-old woman, along with my 16-year-old and 14-year-old cousins. Maybe I refuse to grow up or maybe there is something that appeals to me in a teenage romance novel. However, I felt as though it was the perfect fit for yesterday’s lecture by Colin Harvey on transmedia versus adaptation.
First of all, the book-to-film process a…
