I was sick so I had to miss the lecture. I went through the lecture notes of “video production and consumption” and trying to summarize it as I understood.
Traditional new media producers have produced the content and we are consumers of content. Cinema, TV, and Pc are measured as the “big” screens of life so, content has been broadcast to the users. Also personal media player or ipods, mobile phones, smart phones such as iPhones are considered as the “small” screens of life. Consumers of small screens of life that enable us to produce our own identity such as face book, you tube in the process of consuming and producing products. Therefore consumers are ever more occupied in the creation of small screen of life.
Mobile phone allows engaging yourself in different role such as recording an event, take a picture, video an event, access to face book, internet, create and save stuffs such as notes and many more. Thus consumption is mainly becoming personal. However, if think of entertainment people produce is usually too long-form and also it looks and sounds terrible so it does not allow access via mobile phones. The best thing is it’s time for people to invent shorter forms of entertainment which enable access via mobile phones.
I do different things using my mobile phone in my daily life. For instance on the way to the university I text my friends, hear to some speeches of different scholars of our religion or hearing Quran, chat on Skype with my friends in overseas ,I access to face book and also I check daily weather condition on my cell phone. It makes my traveling time very useful. New technology has made such as mobile, ipod users to experience heaps of events and to make their time precious.
