Media
Film & Media in the Digital Age
Remediation & Convergence
The first section of the paper will explain two terms or concepts within the context of film & media in the digital age: remediation and convergence. These two concepts are quite closely related. Remediation can be when two or more forms of media combine as a new form of media or when one (or more) form of media is reappropriated, altered, or remixed to a point where it is reborn within a new form. Remediation can be the collapse of media into intermedia or multimedia forms, and it can also be changing a media form into another media form. An example of remediation can be when a book is changed into a screenplay, which is then produced into a film. Remediation can be when a book turns into a digitized version of itself and instead of holding a book, a reader can read this same information on an iPad or a Kindle. Remediation may also be when a clip from the film based on the book, is extracted as part of an art installation, and the artist recontextualizes the clip with music or other imagery that has no direct connection to the book or too the film.
Convergence, especially within the digital or information age, is inevitable. There has been substantial evidence of media convergence already, even just within the past twenty years. Media convergence when forms of media, formally separate and distinct, are mashed together or constructed together such that the finished product represents each individual media form with the new form of media. Many filmmakers and film professionals have argued that the digital age has obliterated the idea of and production of a single media form. Consider the following:
Imagine a place without books, photographs, movies, televisions, stereo systems, letters, post cards, billboards, telephones, and fax machines. That place is not Europe in the Dark Ages but the world that most people in the twenty-first century will inhabit. In lieu of the media that we now take for granted there will be the one great digital medium that replaces the current Internet. The process by which all these separate media become digital and come to be delivered via the global network...
digital age include worlds that are highly imaginative (eg. Harry Potter films). Films are sometimes conceived in a literary form and then turned into a script and a film. Films since the 1920s and into the 21st century have used physical models and stage properties of some kind (eg. Metropolis, Blade Runner, 2001: A Space Odyssey and Harry Potter). In the digital age, visual effects are created by composite
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This did not end the matter, of course, and appeared to be addressed more at the copier than at sites facilitating sharing, which would become the next target. File Sharing Services Napster was the best known but hardly the only website devoted to facilitating file sharing among subscribers. After the courts caused Napster to shut down, at least in its original form, other sites emerged to take its place. A court
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