Video is not optical ......

Students:
  Hi - welcome to the blog.  I was reviewing my notes from Paul Ryan's lecture and found this comment which I think will be helpful when we shift from analyzing film form to understanding video as a different medium from film.  He stated that video is not optical but instead it is kinesthetic movement. (This idea may be helpful when you're practicing shooting and focusing on movement.  We'll look at Dziga Vertov's film work in contrast to Eisenstein's methods of filming which will help you to see the roots of using a time based medium which is oriented to kinesthetic movement rather than the optical. Vertov's films are from the same period as Eisenstein's films and Vertov's method of filming is more similar to the medium of video. )  
  CREOD!!! Two sources regarding creods....the first description seems related to shooting and the second description has to do with patterns of behavior - this could relate to developing a subject about relationships for a video, similar to the videos such as "Triad" .
     A general description of a creod that Flora had cited from Principia Cybernetica Web: "A creod is derived from the Greek words for "necessity" and "a path." A term coined by D.S. Waddington who says a creod is a "time trajectory of developmental change (arising) from the characteristics of the closed circular causal organization of the system of genes and cytoplasm. Creods are a type of phenomena which occurs in many other fields also." (http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/ASC/Creod.html)
    A more specific type of creod: "Behavioral creods are essentially similar to Piaget's notion of schemes, organized patterns of behavior that develop in characteristic ways.  They represent the bias the organism has toward acquiring some rather than other forms of behavior. " (From Synthesizing Nature-Nurture: Prenatal Roots of Instinctive Behavior" by Gilbert Gottlieb.) In a few weeks, we'll view videos from the 70's and 90's which have relevance to behavioral creods.
  For now you may find these ideas abstract but in a few weeks, I think you'll shift into playing with these ideas and explore new experiences with the medium.