Tuesday, December 11, 2007
A short Animation
My First Flash
This is my first flash work. Initially my storyboard was pretty complicated, but I changed my plan after the class. It took a long time to familiar with flash so I had done same work over and over until what I wanted to make. It was a good practice and I am pretty satisfied with my first work.
Monday, November 26, 2007
An audio assignment - Tell me your secret
Tell me your secret
You can listen to this file better with a headphone.
I don't know why its sound is too low with my labtop speaker..
The process of an audio piece - Tell me your secret!
Actually it was the first time for me working on the sound itself. Before this work, I was not interested in the sound so I was worried about this assignment little bit. But working on an audio, I learned a lot how to record, how to use recoder and how to edit sounds.
Sunday, November 11, 2007
Internet Ecomony
Fame vs Fortune:Micropayments and Free contents by Clay Shirky
Misunderstanding Micropayments by Sccot MacCloud
It is very interesting reading articles that have totally different points of view about same phenomenon. Shirky published an article, “Fame vs Fortune: Micropayments and Free contents” about the ecology publishing power on the internet and based on this, he supposed the failure of micropayments. Scott McCloud published an article named “Misunderstanding Micropayments” to respond Shirky’s article.
I have finished these two articles, and conceive myself as an Internet contents consumer. Have I ever paid for Internet contents? The answer is No. Sometimes I find some contents that I really need but if I should pay for these, I usually start looking for other contents. So I think about what makes me think like that seriously. There are two reasons that I have for not paying for Internet contents. First, I am always sure that there are other contents that I can get without paying on the internet. As Shirky says there is a huge world of free contents.
After reading I was aware of my actions are related with “mental transaction cost” that Shirky mentions in his article. Because of these two reasons, I can not feel internet contents are worth buying willingly even though these are very cheep. And also, my reasons are based on internet’s distinctions which are opening to anyone and being full of open sources speaking of free contents. These distinctions make the economic situations of the online different from the one of the real world. Because of these, I consider micopayments system was failed.
Understanding Media -Marshall McLuhan
Understanding Media - Marshall McLuhan
Normally medium is treated as a tool to convey contents. But McLuhan says “the medium is the message.” And according to his arguments, medium is also any extension of ourselves and it shapes and controls the scale and form of human association and action. (p.9) People are making media and following this people is being changed. I could understand media influence the contents. Media can change trait of the contents. For example, if we find the same articles on the web and on the newspapers, even though we would get same information, it influence the way we accept it. But if media is just a message, would this different information from the same media be the same thing? Could jean and corduroy pants deal with the same? Indeed, could the media be the message itself?