Remediation

Remediation - The use of a media in another media, argued to be a defining characteristic of new age media. A spectrum of levels.

Immediacy - Media that aspire to a condition of transparency. Aims to make views forget they are perceiving media.

Hypermediacy - Artefacts that are aware of and wish to display their own constructed nature. Call attention to their nature constantly.

Remediation can refer to a whole range of conventions which are ways of doing things.

Once a convention is established and proved successful, it is often employed by other media.

Technology change can overtake cultural change - This is why adapting successful convention to new media makes sense.

Putting content from one media into another may radically change our relationship to that content and open up whole new possibilities.

The following are my notes from the movie "Run Lola Run"

• Starts with a cut to an animated intro
• Cuts to an animated beginning every sequence
• Lots of cuts during scenes
• Emphasis on time
• Displays the inter-personal relationships of supporting characters
• Shows flashes of minor characters futures, as determined by Lola's action/s
• The film is actually done three times over, with her actions, and the perceived consequences, changing each time
• Has a 'power' - a high-pitched scream able to shatter glass and shake objects violently
• Has her goal - Get 100,000 Euros in 20 minutes

Personally, I thought this movie was great, and a well used example. Each time the movie resets to the beginning scene, I feel it gives the viewer a visible connection between this movie and video games, as it feels exactly like a checkpoint being reloaded within a game, which players often do when a chain of events doesn't go in their favour. The example of how her small actions went on to change the entire futures of many minor characters also puts into perspective how closely tied we as a society really are, whether we like to believe it or not. But that's getting a bit away from video games..

Overall though, this was a perfect example of remediation, and thoroughly enjoyed the movie in itself.