I’m still thinking a lot about how I’m going to incorporate visuals into my film and have a few ideas.
1) Animation over live-action interviews, like the HP commercials:
or the work of Tim Wu, a Tisch student who’s apparently widely regarded as one of the best animators in our year (if anyone knows him and wants to plug my doc to him, feel free).
2) I’m thinking of using a library metaphor to illustrate the Semantic Web, which would mean filming some sequences in a library. Basically, I would explain why the web is different from a traditional library (no card catalog! Or, if you want to think of it another way, as many card catalogs as there are web users, since everyone creates their own indexes and organizational schemes). The books in the library would represent webpages, that are linked together with pieces of string or ribbons or something. Then I’d explain that the Semantic Web is not about linking the books, but linking the pieces of information inside the books (see the cool effect of picking up text off a piece of paper in Tim Wu’s video). I need to come up with a good visual way to explain that the Semantic Web is also about making all that information computer-understandable, not just people-understandable, and that once that happens, computers will be able to do lots of reasoning and inferencing with the information. Any thoughts?
