Friday, April 27

Visual Blogging: Storytelling & Interactivity


My vision for the future of media? Within seven years, the world will be interacting with… itself!

I believe the world of seven years from now will be full of interaction and storytelling since humankind is predisposed to communication… visual communication, more so than verbal communication.

Constantly evolving… cross-cultural, cross-lingual, cross-belief… global communications that will be based in the visual realm and tremendously more colorful because of the number of people contributing their opinions, their life experiences… their stories.

Media will still include print and electronic elements. It’s just that where they begin and end will be very “grey”. Not exactly merging… more like morphing from one to the other.

For example, newspapers… I see them being quite personalized. I’ll probably log on to the internet in the evening, select the general categories of the paper I want to read/hear in the morning, and then either print out my paper or download a .pdf to read on the way to work (if I ride the train)… or have my car read to me (if I’m driving somewhere).

“All at once a palace of peace will fill my eyes — how nice!”, Yusuf croons. And I start thinking about the content of news photos. It will probably take seven years for the world to go through its current cycle of war. Not that I want it to take that long…. I’d hope to finally see photos of some radical group finally laying down their arms… embracing peace… (I can dream like Yusuf, right?)

There are almost 200 words in Yusuf Islam’s lyrics. I’ve now added just over 300 more with this post. Somehow, 500 words seem very inadequate for a weighty subject like the future of the media.

But then… it’s mostly about the visuals, right?

Somehow in seven years time, I think I’ll still be “waiting for that moment to arrive.”

3 comments:

gercohenJoMC712 said...

what a wonderful capstone for the course!
loved your warning "Click To Play - Large File, Please Be Patient"
thought the manual typewriter with the word "BLOG" typed on it (clearly in a typewriter font)was a good effect!

Boris said...

I would have to agree with you on this statement: "I believe the world of seven years from now will be full of interaction and storytelling since humankind is predisposed to communication… visual communication, more so than verbal communication."

No matter what new technologies will be developed, photos and other graphical elements will play a much bigger role in how we communicate. Maybe even more so than the written word.

serena fenton said...

Wonderful images. My daughter was sitting a few feet away and stopped what she was doing to watch. She couldn't quit - very compelling!