Moving image literacy

Soundtracks

Music

Still images

Digital Storytelling

Moving images

Adding real footage

Animation

Software for video making

What do we teach our children?

People are using video

Streaming tests

People are using video

Children may spend a lot of time in school learning how to communicate using text (see "What do we teach our children?") but that's just because text is how we did it in our day. The world has moved on now and people are more likely to be communicating by email, blogging or even video these days.

Communicating by video is still new but here's a peep into early examples. Visit YouTube and find more for yourself. There's a lot of rubbish out there but it's an interesting peek into the world our children live in. 

One interesting consequence of the ability to communicate using video is the ability to respond in video. Here are two examples, one of which even has a response to the response - in video. These people are all playing with the medium. The content and quality are pretty terrible - and they do go on a bit - but look beyond the quality to the immense potential of this medium.

(Each link on this page opens YouTube in a new window. Close the YouTube window to return here.)

1. EMO Girls
(EMO is short for "Emotional" and seems to be an off-shoot of Gothic)
The girl below is talking about words. The two girls on the right reply to her. They have all chosen video as their communication medium.

2. Digital Rights Management and copyright issues on YouTube
On the left is a long monologue about not uploading copyright material to YouTube. The centre video takes the opposite view. On the right is a reply supporting the respondent.

In all these examples there is very little attempt to use anything other than talking heads (though interestingly there is some use of music and captioning).

Could the arguments have been better made if time had been spent using the techniques of moving image literacy?