Mission to Earth

a) What is new or different about this example of digital cinema when compared with a) traditional ways of telling a story b) and constructing a film? 

In tradition, we are not part of the film since we cannot be a creator but only a viewer. But, since the software in soft-cinema is relied on the use of databases, and the database is programmed. So that the story is almost never the same. It allows human mind to create a story for themselves, as each scene is going to require a unique interpretation. 

In constructing a film, traditional film usually use one camera to get one scene and use different cameras to have multi-angles. However, in soft cinema, the software in soft cinema controls the screen layout, the number of windows and their content, we can see that soft cinema enlarge our view since it allows us to have diiferent angles of views in same time.

b) What other art (film, digital art, painting etc) does this film remind you of?                         

 It remind me video art. Since this film is dtfferent from traditional film, so I cannot treat this as a film. However, it does remind about video art because it is produced by digital technolog and it is using video way to present some ideas.

c) Wrap up- central question for Manovich –what can this new medium do?

I think this new medium can encourage people to present their own idea. This is because it makes producing a film become easliar. People do not need to take filming courese and know many theories of making film. They can feel free to use this new medium to voice out their views.