Layers and meaning: reflections on digitality
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The document discusses two types of stories - ones where the conclusion is already known, and ones where it is not. For stories with a known conclusion, layers can be used to organize story elements. Layers represent relationships between elements and allow for manipulation through iteration, juxtaposition, hiding and revealing. For stories without a known conclusion, layers become an experiment in meaning making through similar techniques. Layers contain the history of drafts and represent the fluid nature of deriving meaning in digital creative works.
Layers and meaning: reflections on digitality
- 1. Layers and meaning Jenny Weight, RMIT c. 2012 [email protected]
- 2. 2 types of stories • The ones where you already know the conclusion • The ones where you don’t You already know the conclusion to this story …
- 3. When you already know the conclusion …
- 4. It is easy to organise the elements you need
- 5. into layers
- 6. Regardless of medium /software / genre /style
- 9. Each layer is equivalent to a discreet story element
- 10. And can therefore be manipulated
- 13. Layers are about relationships between elements
- 15. Reveal and hide
- 19. Layers and frames Frames consist of layers which change over time. Frames accumulate changing meanings, in which the relationships are not just between layers but between versions of layers in an evolutionary sequence.
- 20. But what about the other type of story
- 21. the one where you don’t know the conclusion?
- 22. Layers become an experiment
- 25. hide and reveal
- 31. Have layers changed meaning?
- 32. Layers allow us to contain the history of the object (the drafts) within the file
- 33. Layers allow us to treat meaning as an experiment
- 34. Layers represent to the maker the plasticity and contingency of meaning
- 35. So I think meaning making is a different sort of experience in digital production