research project artifacts

Research Question
To what extent has modern technology such as the internet affected the way we perceive narrative through film?

Research and experimentation into the impact modern technology has on film must include some form of data or statistics from the past in contrast to the modern day situation put together in charts and graphs. Tables of statistics will reveal specific areas of change throughout the past century making it more apparent which of these areas of change can be attributed to a technological advancement and how much credit is due to the advancement. To gain insight into how audiences perceive film in the modern age, Re- editing experiments may prove beneficial. For example, the film Pulp Fiction, famous for its none-linear story line may work just as well if it was edited into a linear story line. Smaller experiments may include taking an old film such as the Great Train Robbery or metropolis and editing it down into a modern hard hitting trailer to see if the footage is sufficient to use for this purpose despite its age. The reverse of this might be to take a modern film featuring vast amounts of technology and see how the footage works edited into an old silent film with text frames. Feedback from audiences about such material will help substantially to generate useful data, and data only has to be analysed correctly to become useful.