When you look at things in a broad perspective everything matters. But we still usually manage to prioritize one above the other. So, if you had to choose, what matters more? Form - or content?
Furthermore:
How are they dependent on each other? What would be the consequence of prioritizing one above the other? What kind of LARP focuses on form? What kind of LARP focuses on content? Which is the better LARP? In what way does it matter? :)
To be able to answer those questions we must be in agreement on what the words Form and Content stand for.
For me the medium is the message in a lot of ways. But is form conected to medium? What is the differens between form and style? Is not the content shaped by the style and/or form it is presented in/with?
I think this question raises a good set of discussion points, but is utterly imposible for me to answer. Form and Content are equaly important and dependent of each other.
How strange!
Form and Content are depending on each other. So how could I ever answer such a badly formulated question? They both matter.
Morgan Jarl
Pedagogue, Director and Larp-organizer.
www.interaktivproduktion.se
To the extremes! :)
When you look at things in a broad perspective everything matters. But we still usually manage to prioritize one above the other. So, if you had to choose, what matters more? Form - or content?
Furthermore:
How are they dependent on each other? What would be the consequence of prioritizing one above the other? What kind of LARP focuses on form? What kind of LARP focuses on content? Which is the better LARP? In what way does it matter? :)
-Kristian
What is Form and Content anyway?
To be able to answer those questions we must be in agreement on what the words Form and Content stand for.
For me the medium is the message in a lot of ways. But is form conected to medium? What is the differens between form and style? Is not the content shaped by the style and/or form it is presented in/with?
I think this question raises a good set of discussion points, but is utterly imposible for me to answer. Form and Content are equaly important and dependent of each other.
Morgan Jarl
Pedagogue, Director and Larp-organizer.
www.interaktivproduktion.se
I partially agree with you
I partially agree with you Morgan: It's clear for all that Content and Form depend on each other, and that both matter.
But in those kind of polls you can express in which of both "concepts"you work on more, or which one is the basic from where you build a LARP.
In the other hand i do think too that the poll could be more specific.
you can believe if you try
It goes to show, doesn't it?
Form without content is meaningless.
Content in bad form is either crap, because you cannot digest it, or it is unintelligible.
In that regard both correlate to one another.
But I do disagree that they are dependent on another, since form does not rely at all on any content.
Finally, I agree that the question is a bit vague, but that is the whole point of the discussion here, right?
Peter
(Whose work is very much about strict form, but who really favours content.)