Origins of video - Karina Banda

I agree that video is the most versatile medium form there is. Since video acts essentially like a pair of eyes, it can show anything and everything. It is not 3 dimensional or tangible like a sculpture or other tangible art forms, but it does not limit video. Although video itself has no depth, it can still show you depth. It is also a medium that can be stable through stills or it can be continuously changing with through motion, colors, and visual textures. The reading also mentioned that through the years, with technology changing, the things you can do with video changes as well. He also mentions that artists usually don't like tv shows and that type of culture and that video is more simple because it doesn't have all the commercial baggage but I feel that with these new technologies of modern day, TV and video aren't as distinct from each other. They sort of have converged together. Many of the TV shows today are so beautifully and carefully constructed that they can be conceived as works of art in my opinion. Game of Thrones for example pays so much attention to all the details in both the settings and the wardrobes that each scene could be though of as a carefully detailed painting.

Video when it was first accessible by people also didn't have that many capabilities that you could play around with. It started out with being able to change exposure levels and then being able to do in camera edits and big editing were left to films and TV shows. Now video has the same capabilities as film and TV shows. We have such advanced programs that are accessible to the public that anyone can start editing video heavily so that it start mimicking the feeling that a film would have or a show. Take this youtube video for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=desb0W6u80Y. All the editing and special effects mimic that of a movie but its only a 2 minute video. Video is always changing and the distinctions between video, tv, and film were always argued but I feel that the distinctions have been erased by modern day technologies and that film has gained an even larger scope today.