A VIDEO ABOUT NOT MAKING A VIDEO
So, I ran out of time, I didn’t ration my time have time to make anything very interesting and was feeling bad about it. So I decided to make my video about doing anything other than making a video. I know, not exactly groundbreaking material, but it’s what I had. So I set up the camera to film me over the next four hours and just decided to act naturally, then I stuck it together in IMovie. In a weird way I guess it does sort of fit into McCluhan’s ideas. “We have had to shift our stress of attention from action to reaction. We must now know in advance the consequences of any policy or action, since the results are experienced without delay. Because of electric speed, we can no longer wait and see.” Here he talks about how the digital age has made time move faster in a way, the consequences of everything are known beforehand (in my case if I don’t make this video I’ll be in trouble), here the digital age not only makes it go faster in a literal sense ...