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Abstract

A Study on Medial Characteristics of Interactive Cinema : Focusing on Vilem Flusser's Telematic Theory

cho won ha

Department of major of mass communication, The Graduate School, Pukyong National University

Abstract

What does exactly mean Interactive Cinema? It does mean a sort of media that audience and film director are interacting each other while they are experiencing 1 by 1 with cooperation. For couple of centuries, film has authorized by one direction to audience from director, it also can be called linear media. Interactive cinema, however, can be defined that it produces participation of audience while they are watching multimedia. In addition, it also called hypertext narrative media which is differed from traditional media featured by one-way method.  

Major hollywood movies usually focus on their purposes on a passive behavior from audiences, and requesting them mainly concentrate only few main incidents. From this part, we can surely understand the feature of interactive cinema. Causing of the participation and intervention by audiences, and cooperation from film directors and other stakeholders, interactive cinema would produce a completely unique effect with new methods. In this thesis, it has four main parts that distinguish a character of participating orientation of interactive media, those are complex film, interactive (hypertext type) movie, game (MMORPG type), and interactive (hybrid type) movie. 

Those features are distinguished by interactive capacities. some interactive movies seem its  intensity of interactive possibilities stronger but others, for instance, traditional films mentioned above, would not. 

Therefore, we should carefully research films on early days. It did not exist that any compulsion was allowed to give an information from movie to audiences. For them, experiencing media was regarded as drinking tea with taking about gossip. Sincerely, early Lumiere brother's film had shown in cafe, and audiences who had been watching could freely have some conversation while film was running. Nevertheless, once movie was industrialized, those behaviors on early days disappeared because of a structure of modern media environment like today. According to Flusser's suggestion, it has changed from a theater discussion structure to a prototype media structure. Also, this transition does takes place in history, that is, discussion structure has been spreading out that Flusser concerning of. 

From a point of view of history, it needs to be noticed that the recent paradigm variation from interactive cinema is getting more important. sometimes, immersed narration and interactive narration on certain media seem co-existing. However, a connection between discussion media and dialog media mainly described by Flusser's theory could not clearly explain interactive cinema with only a simple reciprocal method.