Old english punishment and ways.

Writing has changed since the old days. It used to consist of a feather dipped in ink and words written on a piece of paper. Now, there are computers and other word processing tools to assist even the worst writer in producing a wonderful looking paper. This technology has distracted writers from being able to write. Technology has grown significantly in the writing realm and the punishments for incorrect grammar.

In ancient days, writing was to help royalty or rich people and not available to peasants. To make sure they could write letters for negotiation of peace or persuade the other side to back down. The punishment in back in these days for insulting royalty was usually severe and resulted death or a long prison sentence. Today the punishment has not gotten any less severe according to the article link below from New York Times on a person insulting someone of the royal family: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/20/world/asia/20thai.html?_r=0.

So ask yourself these questions: Are you writing proper grammar, so as not to appear to be insulting a king, queen, or royal family? (if someone living in England or a monarch based country) Are you ruining their reputation now? Are you using degrading material? Answering yes to anyone of the above can be the difference between a prison sentence or being popular.

Writing with technology on the side

                Computers and technology have changed the form writing takes in this generation of adults. Without todays technology, most adults would not be able send letters of an intelligible response. Handwriting skills have declined as computers with word processors have appeared.  This begs the question: what was it like before computers and technology?  

            Before computers and technology, writing in cursive or handwritten words was extremely important. Only professional men and royalty could afford to invest money in college or proper schooling. Professionals included: high priests, scribes, school teachers, business men, royalty servants and staff (messengers, generals, etc.). Royalty included kings, tsar’s (Russian ruler similar to king), dictators, and other group forms of ruling. After computers appeared technology changed everything for writing. Now the common folk could write and make intelligible responses that could be understood. First, typewriters allowed for writing that did not look like a doctor’s cursive writing. Then, computers added word processing with spell checking to prevent spelling errors in writing.  Computers added the ability to write scripts, whole books, and research papers faster with programs. Computers have aided in organization of information, so it can be obtained faster and aid professionals in their work. Who knows, someone might invent a program for turning personal videos into a written paper? Will it be you?

Is Writing expressed in video games?

                      Writing is expressed in many different forms such as the background which includes books, magazine articles, and scholarly resources to the foreground such as movies and video games. It takes on a new form in discussion boards and email.  Writing involves telling a story to the reader in written form but is this new form used in a video game? Video games are essentially an interactive movie allowing choice. What is one major way writing is expressed in video games?

            The answer to this question is the campaign. The campaign has two major advantages for video games: it aids storytelling with visuals, and allows the author of the games script to change it for inconstancies.  Visual story telling allows the writer to see the consequence before he writes his next script for the next choice for a character. For example, I shoot at a switch to open a door which opens up with enemy AI standing in the middle of the room.  Visual story telling would allow the writer to see the effect of alterative choices on the human reaction such as: happy when you are playing the good guy and defeat the bad guy, play the bad guy and change sides, or some humor from characters like a character saying: "I meant to do that". Writing has always been important to our media and will never change.

Media will define our next generation and writing will go to the background but still be important in our lifes.

Influence of writing on Video Game and Movie scripts

Writing had its start in books, poems, manuscripts, and other important documents. In time, computers showed up changing job responsibilities to visual form.  This technology brought about movies and video games which are in essence more elaborate plays. Writing has influenced elaborate script writing for movies and games. Script writing in turn tells the story for that game or movie.

Scripts for movies and games help to direct writing to visual form for an audience. Books and comics help influence a script that is being turned into movies such as chronicles of naria, batman, and superman.  It is common for major dialog, actions, and twists in the story for a movie to be taken from the original literature with the permission of the author.  Games have a special interactive storyboard script and involve deep visual storytelling, visual storyboards, and written scripts. Examples of game story telling include: choosing your path of action and dialogue in games such as mass effect, massive open  game worlds with hidden secrets and decisive action like in halo,  and  usage of real life scenarios in call of duty: modern warfare series spec ops missions. Scripts help explain reasoning behind a game or movies actions done a certain way.
Without script writing how could we have movies? We could not.

 

Lack of Creativity in Today's generation

                                          Lack of Creativity in Today's generation

Most people lack creativity, whether it is in the arts, science, or in the form of personal expression. Creativity can be split up into many areas but there are three that stand out: Artistic, Scientific, and Mathematics. These areas help to express a person’s creativity in many means besides just writing alone such as art.

Artists used to express creativity by: painting, chalk, pencils, sculptures, and much more forms. Today’s art is being created on the computer though: drawing of 3d models, 3d projectors for content, and 3d printers to make physical prototypes. In the scientific area of creativity technology and forms of science, along with technical documents help scientists to express thoughts and ideas and help scientists overcome boundaries. In the mathematical area of creativity math formulas and short explanations are used to help the mathematical person express their ideas.