• Remediation can refer to a whole range of conventions.
• For example, we find examples of Aesthetic conventions being constantly traded between different media.
• ‘Photorealism’ an example of ‘immediacy’ is not the preserve of the medium of ‘photography’
Why does remediation take place?
• It may take time for a new medium to develop unique forms of content.
• Similarly it is not so surprising that successful conventions end up being traded between different media. The ‘goal’ of computer games was to render into visual 3D the text based narratives of early computer games.
• Television programme makers took the successful format of ‘Variety’ programmes from radio, who had themselves taken the convention from the music halls.
Remediation between Films and Video Games
Video Gaming and Film:
Bittanti (2003) looks at the history of video gaming in film and claims that there
is a convergence taking place.
Bittanti claims that there are now a body of films that
remediate, comment on, quote and adapt video games.
So much so these films are a genre of film in their own right. He calls them
Technoludic Films. A combination of Technology and Ludus (Latin for play).
Technoludic Film as Commentary
Here, Bittanti says, the video game is subordinated to the film. Film is used to critique the other medium (the video game). Film projects societies deepestanxieties about the medium of the video game, especially in relation to the escape of the self and the body from `reality`.
Among the films that exemplify this are The Lawnmower Man (1991) eXistenZ (1999) The Matrix Trilogy (1999ff)
Technoludic film as quotation
Here video games appear in films for illustrative purposes. They are not the central theme of the film but form part of the fictional world that the film is attempting to create.
Films that exemplify this approach are Blade Runner (1982) Clockers (1997) a modern example of this sort of film would be Inception (2010)
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