Future Cinema

Course Site for Future Cinema 1 (and sometimes Future Cinema 2: Applied Theory) at York University, Canada

Database and Narrative

Database and narrative can be described as dots and line, line and shape, ingredients and end-products, colour and painting, or pixels and images. I also think of the relation similar to fashion; individual items (e.g. socks, shoes, jacket, shirt) and style. The concept of database and narrative seem to have been present in our pre-computer world in our minds. New media technologies have enabled to manifest the dual existences in the form of media work.

How can our own databases consisting of our experience and knowledge be affected by new sets of databases and narratives introduced by media? As we increasingly familiarize ourselves with multiplicity and accept it as a part of our media consumption, how does it change or does not change our view toward conventional Hollywood-type narrative plots which still prevalent?  Will it be obsolete? Do we become more critical?

Wed, November 22 2017 » Future Cinema

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