VideoString

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VideoString is an interactive Flash application that allows users to explore the evolution from written and spoken language to pictorial video communication by creating linear, syntactical, “sentences” out of short video clips.

VideoString Program:

Introduction to Proposal Mass communication is evolving and expanding as new technologies and/or techniques become readily available. As video production becomes widely accessible, it is important to consider the possible changes that will allow us to make the most out of this new form of mass communication. This project will demonstrate, in a very literal way, some of the differences between written language and video by attempting...

Theoretical Statement Certainly the first great step in human communication, and probably the greatest intellectual achievement in all of human history, was language. Language must have existed, at least in a primitive form, for 100,000 years to date (Schramm 27). All early languages evolved away from pictographs and towards non-representational, symbolic coding (Schramm 54). This coding has, inherent to it, two forms of structural organization...

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