Shannon and Weavers process model of communication had an aim to maximise the efficiency of communication using different media and channels, producing the process.
There being the information source that’s transmitted to the receiver, the signal of how it’s transmitted, and the noise surrounding it. Referring to any disruption or distortion to the signal as it is being transmitted to its destination. Terms such as redundancy and entropy can also refer to the type of information being sent, redundant information establishing forms of familiarity and entropic being unpredictable, yet possibly allowing us to new and useful information conveyed in unexpected ways. Where in my seminar, I found useful to separate the animations we watched, and reflecting on this, previous films and books I have seen, into what I found to be conventional and mainstream to experimental and unusual. We watched two short animations with solid differences in storytelling.
Pixars ‘For the Birds’, displaying a gathering birds on a telephone wire, conventional and something, us the audience understands to be normal, of course there being forms of entropy such as visual design of the birds, we understand the story, how it was told and the message being successfully received by us.
In comparison to us the short ‘Yankee Gal’ proved to confuse us but also allowed us to discuss our various views and what we believed the film to be about, some receiving different visual information to help understand the short better than others. For example subtle shapes, symbols and hidden meanings behind the female character, allowed the class to have more opinions than when we watched the first clip. Using the film as an example we can say, because rather that straight storytelling and answers, the audience had more questions and confusion, its unpredictability caused the feedback from the receiver to be distorted and not well received.
There is also the fact that entropic information can eventually become redundant, for me watching ‘Yankee Gal’ seemed familiar in its style and narrative, as I am used to, and enjoy, watching films that are experimental, and therefore predicted the ending where as others in my class claimed it to be unexpected. Though it doesn’t mean that I understood all its meanings at the first viewing, I can still say it’s entropic as there is still much more information to be discovered and to be received by me, as not all the information was successfully transmitted in one goes, whether or not if that was the director’s intention.
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