Looking back

Looking back at what I have learned this semester, I tried to decide what I had found most interesting and or exciting. This was a hard decision because I feel that overall, this has been a semester that has brought more new ideas to my attention than some of my previous semesters.

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That being said... the one thing I have found most interesting about this class to date is Scot McCloud's lecture about comics, graphic novels, and where these forms of communication are headed in the future.

His argument: that comics no longer need to be made as if the creator were limited to the old model (that of the printing press) - is fascinating. It not only made me see comics and graphic novels differently, it makes me wonder what kinds of innovation in art and storytelling can be applied to video and film by viewing computers as a new kind of medium.

Since we are seeing television programming on the internet, why aren't we seeing content that is designed to make use of the internet as a need way of communicating? We no longer need to try and fit tv and video online, as producers of media we ned to start designing content that takees advantages of computers and the internet.

Could an online tv show contain hyperlinks? I don't see why not. Youtube videos already allow for comment boxes, and the ability to pause and investigate a link is almost never used. It is this kind of thing that hasn't been investigated enough.

Innovation will not come by adapting tv so that it can be seen online, it will come from adapting how we make video to make online. Once producers of media start looking at computers for what they can do instead of another way to show television, only then will we look at the internet as a new medium.