Visit to Miriam Smith's Mobile Medium Class
Today I'll be visiting Professor Miriam Smith's seminar BECA 677: The Mobile Medium from A to Z to talk about writing mobile-medium content.
It's a vast subject; there's so much variety out there and so many different forms to address, and also there's the burning question of whether such a nascent medium should be burdened with too much "how to" — maybe it's better to hold off on formulating rules and conventions, since we don't want it all to look like "old media" yet (or maybe ever).
But still, there is a difference between good content (engaging stuff you want to share) and bad content (boring, confusing stuff you only watch five seconds of before clicking away in disgust), and today we'll try to identify some of the qualities and characteristics of both.
Here's a basic outline and list of links that I'll be using:
The importance of story and character: three silly cat videos
Digital Storytelling: people crafting their stories, their way
- Looking at Things by Jay Dedman
- the show with Ze Frank
- Minnesota Stories vlog and early example of citizen journalism
- Open Letter by Adriana Aguilar
- Next to Heaven by Rob Parrish
Story and character in online/short format: selections from the Treo Film Festival:
- "Call Waiting"
- "Toast"
- "Dude, Where's My Car Key?"
- "ERs Around the Globe: Tuscany" and "ERs Around the Globe: Brooklyn"
How "old TV" is staying in the game:
- NBC's The Office webisodes
- NBC's It's Your Show solicits user-generated content that ties in with The Office ("Tell Toby Your HR Nightmare") and Heroes ("Heroes Theories")
But "new media" haven't totally abandoned the familiar genres and formats:
- Alive in Baghdad — videoblog/mini-documentaries about the war in Iraq
- Channel 101 and Channel 102 — online "stations" with episodic series
- Rocketboom — an online/podcast news show
- Break a Leg — an online sitcom (faster loading on YouTube)
More resources for Mobile "TV":
- Jeff Pulver's Mega-List of online-only entertainment video
- blip.tv — kind of like YouTube but with better/smarter content
- Fireant and Miro are online video players with tons of original channels
- VarsityWorld — channel for content produced by teens
- Spike — viral video channel
- Viral Video Chart (tracks popularity of YouTube, MySpace, Google Video by day, week and month)
posted by Marie Drennan 10/08/2007 01:13:00 PM
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