Content
Content
In media production and publishing, content is information
and experiences that may provide value for an end-user/audience
in specific contexts. Content may be delivered via any medium
such as the internet, television, and audio CDs, as well as
live events such as conferences and stage performances.
Content is the textual, visual or aural elements which are combined to form the user experience on websites and other media. Individually, or in combination, elements such as: text, imagery, audio, video and animation. The objective of content is to inform, persuade, sell, and otherwise communicate with the consumer.
The word content, is often used colloquially to refer to media, which is erroneous as it instead means the contents of the medium rather than the medium itself. Likewise, the single word "media" and some compound words that include "media" (e.g. multimedia, hypermedia) are instead referring to a type of content.
In advertising, web marketing and similar fields, copy refers to the output of copywriters, who are employed to write material which encourages consumers to buy goods or services.
Copywriting is the use of words to promote a person, business, opinion or idea. Although the word copy may be applied to any content intended for printing (as in the body of a newspaper article or book), the term copywriter is generally limited to such promotional situations, regardless of media (as advertisements for print, television, radio or other media). The author of newspaper or magazine copy, for example, is generally called a reporter or writer, not a copywriter.
Thus, the purpose of marketing copy, or promotional text, is to persuade the reader, listener or viewer to act — for example, to buy a product or subscribe to a certain viewpoint. Alternatively, copy might also be intended to dissuade a reader. Copywriting is "getting across the perfect message, with the perfect words."
Copywriting can appear in direct mail pieces, taglines, jingle lyrics, web page content (although if the purpose is not ultimately promotional, its author might prefer to be called a content writer.), online ads, e-mail and other internet content, television or radio commercial scripts, press releases, white papers, catalogs, billboards, brochures, postcards, sales letters, and other marketing communications media.
On websites, copywriting may also refer to content writing for the purpose of achieving higher rankings in search engines. This practice includes the strategic placement and repetition of keywords and keyword phrases on webpages. Known as "organic" search engine optimization (SEO), it is best done in a way that does not distract, bore or confuse the human reader. Achieving optimal results is something of an art.
Images may be two-dimensional, such as a photograph, screen display, and as well as a three-dimensional, such as a statue. They may be captured by optical devices—such as cameras, mirrors, lenses, telescopes, microscopes, etc. and natural objects and phenomena, such as the human eye or water surfaces.
The word image is also used in the broader sense of any two-dimensional figure such as a map, a graph, a pie chart, or an abstract painting. In this wider sense, images can also be rendered manually, such as by drawing, painting, carving, rendered automatically by printing or computer graphics technology, or developed by a combination of methods, especially in a pseudo-photograph.
A volatile image is one that exists only for a short period of time. This may be a reflection of an object by a mirror, a projection of a camera obscura, or a scene displayed on a cathode ray tube. A fixed image, also called a hard copy, is one that has been recorded on a material object, such as paper or textile by photography or digital processes.
A mental image exists in an individual's mind: something one remembers or imagines. The subject of an image need not be real; it may be an abstract concept, such as a graph, function, or "imaginary" entity. For example, Sigmund Freud claimed to have dreamt purely in aural-images of dialogues. The development of synthetic acoustic technologies and the creation of sound art have led to a consideration of the possibilities of a sound-image made up of irreducible phonic substance beyond linguistic or musicological analysis.
Still image
A still image is a single static image, as distinguished
from a moving image (see below). This phrase is used in photography,
visual media and the computer industry to emphasize that one
is not talking about movies, or in very precise or pedantic
technical writing such as a standard.
A film still is a photograph taken on the set of a movie or television program during production, used for promotional purposes.
Moving image
A moving image is typically a movie (film), or video,
including digital video or animation.
Content value
The author, producer or publisher of an original source of
information or experiences may or may not be directly responsible
for the entire value that they attain as content in a specific
context. For example, part of an original article (such as
a headline from a news story) may be rendered on another web
page displaying the results of a user's search engine query
grouped with headlines from other news publications and related
advertisements. The value that the original headline has in
this group of query results may be very different from the
value that it had in its original article.
It is possible for a person to derive their own value from content in ways that the author didn't plan or imagine. User innovation makes it possible for users to develop their own content from existing content.
Not all content requires creative authoring or editing. Through recent technological developments such as mobile phones that can record events anywhere for publishing and converting to potentially reach a global audience on channels such as YouTube, most recorded or transmitted information and experiences can be deemed content.
Technological effects on content
Media production and delivery technology may potentially enhance
the value of content by formatting, filtering and combining
original sources of content for new audiences with new contexts.
The greatest value for a given source of content for a specific
audience is often found through such electronic reworking of
content as dynamic and real-time as the trends that fuel it's
interest. Less emphasis on value from content stored for possible
use in its original form, and more emphasis on rapid repurposing,
reuse, and redeployment has led many publishers and media producers
to view their primary function less as originators and more
as transformers of content. Thus, one finds institutions, that
used to focus on publishing printed materials, now publishing
both databases and software to combine content from various
sources for a wider-variety of audiences.
Reference: This information was compiled on Wikipedia and is presented largely unedited and without bias. This article may contain original research or unverified claims.
