Critical Context – New Media (IDAT104)

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Presentation

A five minute presentation on Lev Manovich and Database Cinema where we were placed into groups at random.

Presentation on Lev Manovich and Database Cinema

Critical Context Essay

Paying particular attention to the concept of ‘database cinema’ and key principles of new media proposed by Lev Manovich, discuss the relevance of these statements as a way of understanding ‘the language of new media’.

Critical Context Essay

Database Cinema – The Running Man

For this project we created an application that selected a video at random from a pool of clips and looped this process repeatedly. The clips were filmed in many varying locations but each featured Rob running across the screen. Each clip was carefully set up so as to produce a nearly seamless looping effect no matter what order the clips are played in.

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