A director must know a good way to tell a story. Before the footage became a movie, the “editing process” for the director (of course including the editor) is a kind of interactive activity, and the content should look like non-narrative. The director will sit in front of the editing machine and manipulate those clips until they can represent what director want to tell to the audience.
The experience of watching interactive video is similar to surfing the Internet with wrong keywords. After pull down the data online, it includes useless information. The information, sometimes, will lead me away from my target. I have to spend a lot of time to filter the result or to collect the relative data into one place. The same situation happens when I’m watching the interactive video. I have to spend a lot of time to figure out the meaning of each clip. After that, maybe I have to spend another 20 minutes to reorder them. If all the clips don’t have any obvious meaning to me, the whole process will looks just wasting my time to get a meaningless video clip.
That’s the reason why, so far, I like the narrative movie rather then the interactive video.
All I need is one-good-story.
Wednesday, September 20, 2006
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