User talk:Bozaloshtsh

Welcome to Wikiversity. --JWSchmidt 06:58, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your help! Oddly enough, it took me this long to stumble across it, and now it's potential's just like this weirdly entrancing bottemless cavern that in all probability is going to absorb far too much of my sleeping time. But huzzah for untapped potential, right? +Bozaloshtsh 07:01, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

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Revolutionary

Hey there - just wanted to say that I really got a kick out of your userpage - "I used to be a revolutionary, but I quit" :-). Also, all the best with your school of Fine Arts. I just wanted to point out something, though - you were wondering if this school would fit with the "ethos of the department" (of New Media). Well, each department is shaped by the people who contribute to it, so you could obviously play a part in that. Also, I don't envisage a section of Wikiversity becoming populated by people of a certain specific mindset (eg. that New Media does not have anything to do with Fine Art) and then this community excluding others of different viewpoints. That, to my mind, would be terrible. What i think we need to do here is firstly to be open to other people's points of view and try to work with them in the general spirit of collaboration. Then, if a group of people feel it would be more appropriate for them to form their own group (eg. within their own pedagogical framework, worldview etc), then they can set up a specific space for their work and materials. But for now, please feel free to post suggestions, comments, questions at liberty to the pages you find relevant. This project will work through discussion and experimentation - if nobody's prepared to push thinking and understanding, then, I'm afraid, we won't get very far. Here's to fresh-thinking and open-mindedness - and, hey, we might even become something revolutionary... Cormaggio 16:42, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Message from Robert E. Purser

(I think you posted the notice on the FINE ARTS page for the Institute of Film and Television. If not, sorry. My mistake. I am still a newbee!)

Why Separate Sections?

I notice that the Fine Arts page for Institute of Film and Television has a comment about separate sections for narrative film production and narrative television production. However, these use identical technology so they should NOT be separate. Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV series was filmed with the same techology and tools as Syriana or Firecracker or Gone with the Wind.

What kind of shows did you mean for narrative television production? Did you mean Sitcoms? Yes, Sitcoms use a totally different production/post-production technology but I don't think it should be called narrative television production. Rather it should be called television studio production since Sitcoms use the same technology as a regular broadcast studio.

Is that what you mean? Robert Elliott 21:52, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

Actually, there's plenty of 1-hour narrative television that's being produced using MiniDV/HD tapes and high-end video cameras these days (The Shield, The Closer, etc.) and the industry as a whole is moving out of using film for both movies and television. I felt that it was necessary to seperate the two because the way light translates into pixels on a chip in a video camera is night and day from the way the film negative understands light. Not only that, but the industries themselves are completely different. Learning about the subject isn't limited to the mechanics of using the cameras... producing for narrative television is completely different from producing for any kind of film. I'm trying to encompass both studio and on-location television under narrative television, the big difference in my mind being the processes for documentary/factual television and narrative. If you don't believe it's a valid split, check with pre-existing unveristy film programs. Most of them have three or four tracks of production, broken down between narrative film, narrative tv, experimental film, and documentary tv (or similar splits). I'll write more, and clarify what I've already written, once I get back from campus, since I'm unfortunetly already quite late. Bozaloshtsh 22:07, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

Short Reply

I disagree but I think we should use email to discuss this. I just found your email address so I will email you. Robert Elliott 02:13, 6 October 2006 (UTC)