Haastattelukysymykset englanniksi
17.03.06 20:18
Your thoughts on digital and web comics
Dear receiver,
I approached you at the UK Web & Mini Comix Thing about your thoughts on digital and web comics. As I explained, I'm currently writing my thesis on them and am interviewing people on their views on different matters surrounding the subject. I'd very much appreciate if you could answer some of the questions below and return them by email. There are a lot of questions, so you don't need to answer them all thoroughly. To make the job easier, you can answer one section at a time, send them to me and return back at it later on. I hope you can return at least some of the answers to me as soon as possible.
If there is anything else that comes to your mind on the subject that is not covered in the questions, feel free to add your thoughts to the email. Suggestions on related reading material and exemplary comics are also welcome.
Your answers to the interview will be used as reference material on my thesis and your name will be listed in the credits as a interviewee. I may quote you word to word or use the answers as a general base for my conclusions. Don't let this academic-sounding intro frighten you - just write what you think. The thesis will be written in my own language (Finnish), but I'll see if I can get it translated to English, if you wish to see the result. Thank you for your interest and effort.
Yours sincerely, Anna Stenman
http://labelled.net/
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THE QUESTIONS
How do you define comics?
What, in your opinion, is digital comics? How do they differ from traditional comics?
What are web comics and how are they different from digital comics?
What are digital and web comics not?
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List some visual and narrational methods that digital and web comics can use.
Do you think these methods are used well enough at the moment? Could they be used better? Do they need to be used better?
What are the best innovations in digital and web comics? You can list technical, content-wise, distributional or other innovations.
What are the worst innovations?
Do you see scanned comics and comics made with "real" digital methods as different or unequal?
Does adding sound, motion, interaction or other added content make digital comics less "comics" or are they a good thing?
Is added content like this only something on top or is it an essential part of the experience of reading?
Here are listed some methods of expression that are best suited or distinctive to digital comics. Please tell your thoughts and opinion on each one.
- movement in comics - sound in comics - interaction in comics - interactive plots, or "choose your ending" stories - stories written by common effort (eg. impro stories or stories where authors take turns on writing, or comics where the reader can make the next page)
What other methods of expression can you think of that are distinctive to digital comics? Tell your thoughts on them.
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How has the relationship between the author and the reader changed in the media of the internet?
What are the effects of instant feedback? Is feedback in real time a good thing or a bad?
An unsuccessful or faulty page, image or sequence can be replaced with a new one in the internet. Is this a good thing or a bad?
What added content does an authors blog or commentary section bring?
What do sketches, drawings and other documentary added content bring?
What do forums bring?
What do side products and web shops selling them on web comic sites bring?
What do you think of web comics printed on paper, in book format?
What do conventions and happenings concentrated on web comics bring?
Have you ever been to a convention with web comic content? What were your experiences?
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What distributive means does digital media and the web offer?
What are the pluses of distribution through the internet? What are the minuses?
How are comics traditionally distributed and consumed?
What about digital and web comics?
What are your thoughts on marketing digital and web comics?
What way do you find the web comics you read?
If you're and author, where do you market your comics?
What is the target group of digital and web comics? How does it differ from the target group of traditional comics?
What are your thoughts on link lists, top listings and votings, web rings and other forms of networking?
What do you think about hosting sites?
What about trackers and other methods of keeping track of updates in web comics?
What do you think about the updating frequencies and amounts of web comics?
How do you feel about comics published on CDs or CD-ROMs?
How do you feel about downloadable comics?
What kind of user terminals do you know that have comics made for them? (eg. mobile devices) Can you think of other user terminals that could have comics on them?
What do you think of digital comics that are made for other than the computer screen?
Would you pay for web comics?
Do you think that you could, under certain circumstances, pay for them? What are those circumstances?
If you pay for web comics, why do you pay for them? If you don't, why not?
How do you feel about subscribing web comics and/or micropayments?
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