Mr. Langdon had us talking about technology in storytelling. He asked us to think about whether technology helped or hurt it. I think that in one sense, technology takes something away from it. Imagination.
If you read a book, you will immediately picture how things are supposed to be in your head. Your imagination takes over and fills in the blanks that the book leaves. With our newer technology, we can make anything happen in a movie, which leaves millions of possibilities for Hollywood. Now that we have the technology to make a game of "quidditch" happen onscreen, we'll make the movie of a book. Once you see things on screen, your mind immediately takes their adaption of the visuals or even the audio instead of your original thoughts. People will then assume that what they had previously thought of was wrong, and the movie is right. In reality, it's just another adaptation. Another option. Technology in a way takes away the thoughts our imagination had previously come up with.
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8 comments:
That's actually a really good point. Advanced technology does allow us to see some things that would generally only be defined by our imagination. This oftentimes false adaptation can erase our originial thoughts, like in the case of your example of quidditch. I think that imagination is really important to have when being told a story and that when it is taken away that story is somewhat worse... but ill still watch movies and tv shows.
I'll admit out of all people in the world i have the worst imagination ever so.... I really only read books for pleasure after they are made into movies. Like the Divinci code. I saw the movie thought it was interesting then read not only that book but angels and demons and others about that same character. It has worked so well for me in the past that even today I'm reading the fourth book of the twilight saga. I also saw that movie first and thought it was interesting so then i started reading the whole series. It makes it easier for me i can visualize what the characters look like and the settings it actually helps my imagination work. It makes reading easier because the characters are so vivid in my mind. With out the movies I don't think that I would have enjoyed the books as much. Like with twilight everyone finds Bella to be annoying and naggy who read the books first but the movie gave me a different tone to read the book with and she seem more pleasant to me which makes it sound like it's more fun for me to read. So for me i guess I'm trying to say that it truly helps.
Exactly, and because of film adaptations of things we see in our imaginations, we are watching depictions of a book through someone else's imagination. Quidditch is a great example because everyone had a general idea of what it looked like based on the way the author described it, yet still added their own touches in their minds. Now, since there was a movie, everybody sees quidditch in the same way leaving no creativity when reading.
I agree, it's harder to imagine with all the technology creating the images for us. Whenever people read, everyone gets a different image in their heads which is great because every image is unique. But now when there's a movie made from a book, everyone has the same exact setting, characters, motions playing in their head. People's creativity and imagination are being hindered by technology.
However, technology has become a major part of art now. And art isn't art with imagination.
So I guess it all depends.
I completely agree with what you are saying. However, I still think technology can be beneficial in this respect. Reading allows you to imagine what's going on and what the characters are like and it's kind of cool to get your own feeling as to what's going on. Say you read a book, and a movie comes out for it. I think it's cool to see different perpectives on the same story. You can be like "oh, I never thought of it that way!" and open your thoughts as to what's really going on. You can especially do this is there are a lot of versions of the movie (such as King Kong, as we watched it in Mr. Langdon's class). I agree that technology can take away from imagination, but it also may help broaden our perspectives.
i really dont think that technology has taken much away from storytelling. No matter whether you use technology or not the way the story is told is going to depend on who is telling the story. The thing with technology is that it has added new ways to tell the same story.
I agree entirely. One of the best parts of reading is allowing your imagination to do what it's meant to do. You can picture the story in your head just as you like it, and no two readers will ever imagine a story the exact same way. On the other hand, I've been completely engulfed in a story and hoping that someone would make it into a movie because I wanted to see such a great story on the big screen. But in general, our imaginations are what create the best visual image from a book.
I totally agree talking about the quidditch thing when I read the Harry Potter books I imagined everything how people looked how they sounded and the things around them. I was so into the books it was hard to put down but than the movies came and although I admit they were good I was a little dissapointed because it was nothing like I imagined them at all. When you watch movies you're seeing the directors imagination not your own and with all the technology improving our skills on making movies we get more and more special effects that make movies sound so much better then books. I still love reading but with all the movies coming out that were based on books I figure I'd watch the movie instead of the book. Now I can honstly say books are better than the movies because in the movie they cut out so much stuff from the book and some of the really good stuff too. I'm a person who loves technology but to be honest I think technology has gone too far.
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