Upload
ambrose-clark
View
224
Download
0
Tags:
Embed Size (px)
Citation preview
But first…How to make a pdf on a Mac!
Any file that is open on a Mac
Pull File down to Print
In the lower left hand corner of the print window
Click “PDF”
Then select “Save as pdf”
On the wiki…
• You can save (and later download)– word files (.doc )– powerpoint files (.ppt)– pdf files (.pdf)– audio files (.au .mpg & others; but not aiff)– video files (.mov & others)– image files (.jpg .png & others)
On the wiki…
• You can display– Text (just type into the edit window)– image files (.jpg .png & others)
• shortFormatHelp– http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Cheatsheet
• longerFormatHelp– http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_edit_a_page
Telling a story• The telling of stories has existed as long as humans
have been on earth.• So… how do you tell a story?• It depends on what media you are going to use…
– Is it spoken to a live audience around a campfire?– Is it an audio recording that is played?– Is it written as text in a book or magazine?– Is it captured in a painting?– Is it told using pictures in a photo album?– Is it performed as a play on stage?– Is it recorded on video and played back?– Is it video that is streaming over the web?– Is it captured in the form of a video game?
The media you choose affects the way the story is told
• If you are using printed text…– you must describe things well
• If you are using still images… – you have to tell it visually by setting the scene
• using Film/Video? – you have moving images and sound... does the
sound emphasize the moving image… – or the other way around?
• Video game?– moving images accented with sound?
New Media/New Technology
Consider if you had spent your life working with the SCROLL…
and you were asked to change to the BOUND BOOK...
HMMMmmmm...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFAWR6hzZek
So…Different Media?
Different Affordances!• Affordances… a term from ecological
psychology borrowed by Don Norman• different things afford different interaction
• handles to pull door open• push plates to push door open• door levers rotate to open• door knobs… twist? hmmm… I hate fake door knobs!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affordance
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_psychology
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Norman
Consider…the Scroll & the Book
• The Scroll – can’t stack scrolls like books– can’t skip around except to beginning or end– but… reading flows without the interruption of pages
• The Book– you can stack them– you can level a table leg with them!– but… the reading is interrupted by page turns– add a TOC & page numbers you can skip around– with index & page #s you can go to a specific place
the Scroll, the Book and now...• Web-based media
– you can consume it in any order you like– links take you to a place (and back!)
• does a book do this?
– each page is in only one place… one change changes everyone’s version
• Compare that to the Book– doesn’t allow this universal change– doesn’t take you back (no back button)– but you can stick a piece of paper or a finger in it to hold your place…
or fold down the corner of the page– you can take notes in the margins
• yes, it does allow corrections immediately to everyone…
• but no history is kept like you would have with book editions
• you go back to “the same place” and it’s different... were you mistaken or did it change?
• http://www.archive.org/index.php
• Did you read everything?– A book is easy just read from front to back– Hyperlinked web pages… no
• Web-based also affords searching– You can Google it and find it!
• A book? Not so much..– the Index will help… if the thing you are
looking for is in the index
– Ever read a book and think...
where did I see this before?
…and then reach for the search tool?
…and then you feel kinda foolish?
New Media/New Technology Adoption
• It takes time for conventions concerning usage to be formed…
• Consider the history of Film...– At first there was no sound– then the sound was performed– then recorded sound was played with the film
• With time… film developed its own unique formsHitchcock told the story visually, long sweeping scenesTarrentino accents the violence with rapid, quick cuts
New Media usage follows a predictable path
• At first the new form tries to act like the old form… to make the new stuff look more familiar– With movies, Newsreels “copied” newspaper-like layouts– With computers, the desktop metaphor “copied” the office
desk
• Alan Kay, XEROX PARC – “The best way to predict the future is to invent it”– personal computer usage exploded– before desktop metaphor C:/ is all you got & few people used
personal computers
So…What is Multimedia?
• A mix of audio, film, graphics– these each address different senses
• We are just beginning to understand what the possibilities are...
• We are just beginning to understand how to best build multimedia stuff– A mix of animation and live action
• 300, Sin City, Christmas Carol, Avatar
• TV series 24 and the movie Phone Booth?– several scenes are played simultaneously
In this class
• We are interested in media forms found on and transmitted across the Internet, how they work and how to manipulate them
• We will build them as projects– audio– still images
• bitmapped• vector graphics
– moving images• video camera• 3D animation
Static vs Time-based media
• Time-based – Media that changes over time
• Film• Video• Audio
• Static media– Media that doesn’t change over time
• Pages in a book• Photos in an album• Images on a webpage
Media Linearity
• Scroll - linear• Book – linear… broken, but linear
– Must turn the pages– but… Table of Contents and Index allow some
non-linearity– encyclopedia and dictionaries are media that are
meant to be used in a non-linear manner
• Film/Videotape - linear• DVD – primarily linear
– Chapters allow some non-linearity
Media Nonlinearity
• Supported through computer-based media– Takes the form of hypermedia– Web pages
• links to other pages, other parts of pages
– Interactive video games• you go to different parts of the game depending on your
input
But is hypermedia interactive?
• Yes… and No• Yes: Programs appear interactive, but only within
the constraints placed on the interaction by the programmer and the interaction designer– Myst looked like a real world but you only had a few
choices you could make
• No: Improvisation (on the part of the user) can’t happen unless it is planned and provided for in advance by the interaction designer and the programmer
Interaction with computer-based media is through a user interface
• Human Computer Interaction– This is my academic field– Taught here as ITEC 4130
• There are standard ways to interact with computer-based media– buttons– sliders– radio buttons– check boxes– pull-down menus– pop-up menus
Internet has broadened its scope
• In the ’90s the internet was seen as a source... – you go to the internet to “look something up”– its use was seen to have an economic
advantage… • you only have to put stuff in one place and everybody
can get to it
• Now it is also a transmission medium– streaming content: live radio– streaming content: view tv shows online
In Summary• Media is changing
• Internet is changing
• Affecting us socially– we send email to people who are in the same room
• Giving us new capabilities ways to interact– mosquito ring tones
• Challenging our views of legality– it’s on the web, can I use it without permission?
• Challenging our view of appropriate behavior– spam for instance
• Providing new uses and new interactions
• This class is about media and how it works