--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Andreas Haugstrup" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 01:07:51 +0100, Enric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The factor of compelling is larger and different on a large monitor or > > screen at a distance. This allows an immersion and presence for the > > media piece not presently available on computer screens. What is > > missing is a synchronization between such devices. > > McLuhan actually claims that the immersion with tv (low-res in his day) > was much larger than cinema (high-res) because the viewers had to get > further into the work to understand it (fill out more blanks, so to > speak). One could easily argue that immersion on blogs is even more > extreme because of the interactivity. > > - Andreas > -- > <URL: http://www.solitude.dk/ > > Commentary on media, communication, culture and technology. >
Immersion is narrative and higher resolution facilitates rather than hinders it. It is the narrative signifiers left to the reader/viewer that let them complete and immerse in the story. It is cutting away from a love scene to the rising dawn and lovers waking up in each others arms that creates the narrative space for the viewer to fill in their version of the sexual/emotional union. This is also in text. But reading lower res text on a screen or lower res video on a monitor does not facilitate immersion but distract from it. The evidence is that people are drawn to higher resolution film presentations for immersion rather than their television performances. "Lawerenc of Arabia" has less immersion on a 3x4 small screen TV than in theatre showing a new 70mm print on widescreen. -- Enric ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> 1.2 million kids a year are victims of human trafficking. Stop slavery. http://us.click.yahoo.com/.QUssC/izNLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
