The Medium is the Message

This article presents on of the core tenants of  both art and digital media, and has become one of the most prolific phrases in media based professions across the nation.  "The Medium is the Message" was actually the entirety of the class that every film, broadcast, and journalism student has to take at BU at the beginning of their freshman year.  This idea applies to this class in particular because we had adapt our message to each medium we were exploring.  The most striking difference between the projects we did for the performance piece and the narrative were the messages that we were trying to convey.  Clearly this shows that each medium is suited for a certain kind of message.  It would have been difficult to elicit the same response using the same basic concept from our sound projects if we had decided to instead have that project be entirely video based.  Similarly, certain books are much better than the film adaptations because it is much more palatable to read a character's existential inner-monologue than to have actors clumsily blurt it out at you.  That is one of the most frustrating limitations of film, and if you haven't seen Cloud Atlas, there is no film better suited to prove my point.  I've put a link to a clip from the film Adaptation.  This movie is a fictional account of screenwriter Charlie Kaufman's attempt to adapt Susan Orlean's novel The Orchid Thief, which, according to the film, was a novel that was impossible to adapt.