Phonar Notes

Why Phonar?

Transmedia- media that connects to another media platform in order to better itself.

Establish a habit/ used to have a production angle

Get into the habit of constantly producing in either small or large increments

What is a Photographer? And what do you need to become one/ type of camera

Everyone is a photographer as long as they can take a picture and any type of camera is fine.

Normal systems of education make the student a sort of slave to their own habits and routines that they develop throughout the course of their schools education. The solutions become the habits and they are never really questioned.

Is there a better way of going about this learning process?

Yes connecting with other people or methods specifically through Transmedia Ex. Open source learning.

What is a photograph?

It’s a physical answer, a fixed time in space, and its data.

Kodak was worth around 2.8 billion dollars in 2011

Snapchat gets the difference, the difference being that photos are more than just moments they are experiences.

Photography is dead is a really pretentious and narrow minded view of human endeavors in that field.

Photography is dead but still alive; it’s transitioned into a new era of photography through different forms of Transmedia.

Flicker has over 6 billion photos

Facebook has over 100 billion photos with 300 million photos being uploaded everyday

What shape is a photo?

Square, rectangle, circle, Bounded by edges

Why do we crop the photo?

So we can ship/ send around

How do rectangles shape our lives?

Mode of information-photography

Mode of delivery-flawed

Travel by looking in a rearview mirror, using the old to understand the new

To change the world is to describe it differently

Journalism is focused on convergence but ultimately misses the point, because media will change in its delivery, decentralized non-linear media environment

Teacher-broader texted understanding

 Whose version of the event gets published, the authority of a single person has been invalidated, and one voice is not necessarily the voice of authority.

Story= beginning, middle, and end

Ask a Stanger on the bus how do you perceive me?

Transmedia-one media-another story from a different perspective=world

All perspectives are connected by different realities.

Being connected means nothing if you aren’t trusted

You have to have a contextual understanding

You have to be heard by people who are the most interested aka the target audience

To get connected to those people you need a platform or a hub

Basetrack used this idea to connect families separated by war and let the soldiers tell their own stories and perspectives.

This helped disaggregated families connect for the first time in years.

Something fixed in time has prevalence, times= is made to be passed on to the generations that come after us.

Photography has the potential to change the world.

What would google do?

Use collaboration to become more powerful than the individual, beyond the supplier potential through these collaborations.

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