Notes from class

Here's our notes from last week's class (shout out to Ana and Meghan):

Producing for Multiple Media

Book -- heavy books, size=weight, tactile, interactive w/hands, smells, write them/annotate, collect them (take up space), pages, pictures, words, jacket (summarizing, marketing), protect, give/share, massmarket, academic, nonfiction, homemade | 2010: ebooks, DRM (digital rights management), braille

Music/Audio -- mp3, vinyl, tape, DRM, music videos

Video/TV -- tell a story, antenna (broadcast), cable boxes, satellite, VCRs, DVRs (increased volume, automatic), captioning, cc, descriptive captioning

The Web/sites -- computer/browser/connection, phones (can be frustrating), mobile version, bigger type, alt tags

"So in this day and age (2010), content 'wants' to be free of formatting constraints."

Social Media | Network: Friends, "friends", associates, post/share opinions, updated in general, hot issue, avenue for self-promotion, photos, video, blog, text, link

Different social media "platforms": linkedin vs twitter vs facebook vs myspace vs blackberry community vs. flickr vs. messageboards vs xbox live vs blogs

Account/membership

Privacy; Critical Mass

Cross-posting

Hashtag: #brookline

Basic workflow for content/video production:
• PLAN
• INPUT/CREATE
• PROCESS/EDIT
• OUTPUT
• SHARE/PROMOTE/TAG

SD/HD

16X9, 4X3 -- aspect ratio

720p 1080p 1080i

Here's some of the links we looked at:


http://www.flipboard.com/

http://scripting.com/stories/2010/07/22/aboutFlipboardAndReadingSu.html

http://www.acrylicapps.com/times/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6a_KF7TYKVc&feature=channel