'Thee Backslacpkping With Media' is now available for viewing from the FAQ:
http://www.noneinc.com/tBSWM/tBSWM_FAQ.html#DVDChapter
MattMahdi wrote:If people know what the project IS then they may decide to download it.
To rectify this made a one minute introduction video which might help clarify or just makes things more confusing...
Thanks for those who have commented on this project some of your words are in this clip:
http://www.noneinc.com/tBSWM/tBSWM-Video-ArchiveOrg/Thee_Backslacpkping_With_Media-Chap_00-Play.html
SKot wrote:
The one thing I wish could be changed was the inconsistent audio levels
Yeah, this is one of the things I neglected early on and just never got back to. I fixed a some audio which didn't sync up and a few who were extremely soft, but a global effort to equalize wasn't done. I'm using headphones 99% of the time and with my tinitus, they just didn't seem dramatic to me. Will do a visual EQ check on future projects.
SKot wrote:Think about having a day of intense web surfing where one link leads to another, and another, and another, and you keep learning and learning more which drives you onward to follow more links for more information to learn even further.
I completely understand the idea of tuning into a service like this and forgetting everything else, but the other side would benefit as well. A service which could complete requests like this could also condense out the essential info the individual is search for. For instance let's so you were traveling to a location and wanted to know how to say a certain street name or other geographical features. A service like this could filter out just the video parts which have this street name mentioned and were recorded in the desired location, so you'd be watching a short piece of several people from the desired location saying the term which your looking to pronounce correctly.
MattMahdi wrote:And I'd love to read material that expands on the information from "about this disc" on the main menu. What's the history, how the project morphed from one thing to another, whether you think it's complete or merely released into the wild.
The DVD is as '"complete"' as it will ever be. Conceptually there are ideas which didn't get flushed out to make sense. For instance the relationship between the Chinese influences and overall production / presentation. I wanted to have more of a storyline about the DVDs production/release. The idea was going to be that the main DVD was created then 'captured' and bootlegged by either Chinese or the Galactic Trade Federation (or both) [who would add their subs to the project] and subsequently re-release. You can see these influences in the menus, the inner frame is the GTF or something and the Chinese influence added the additional information. Llike how the 'backstroke of the west' came into existance.
Another of the in-jokes which didn't happen was in the Chinese Subs, everytime 'Blynth' was said I wanted to have a HUGE 10 line Chinese subtitle which would be some joke, but I never got around to it. Nothing seemed right.
The main video presentation had one main development point. During the recording process, it became more and more frustrating listening to the gaffs/mistakes which we're being made. So the original piece was just going to be a compilation of those clips which had errors. But then as I visited websites who offered their own view of the phenomenon it seemed more interesting to cross compare. Then as the amount of material increased, certain trends started to re-appear. And by the time the movie came out i'd had many of these chapters already defined. Then the early release happened, and the news media attention shifted. And I found myself contemplating a project which relies on copyright infringement to accomplish it's goals. The clip of the News commentator complaining about the annoying numbers at the top of the screen, while her channel logo is equally annoying at the bottom just seemed to ironic. Then a few months later I found several other video hosting sites and video editing softwares which greatly expanded the scope of the project. Most of this material turned out to be from independent individuals who became their own form of news commentators or interviewees, and their contribution added another layer to this presentation.
Another aspect lost was the additional material related to bloggers rights and circumvention of governmental/corporate censoring programs. I wanted to include several documents which help individuals get past great firewalls or understand copyrights in relation to online content. I figured having them inside an RAR'd DVD uploaded to Usenet would be a great way to get this information into other countries. See:
http://www.rsf.org/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=542
http://www.eff.org/wp/unintended-consequences-ten-years-under-dmca
Unfortunately, by the time i'd finished the DVD, times had changed and the info I had seemed out of date. And I was having problems (besides being unemployed) squeezing everything onto the DVD...
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