Why analog created content has more value than digital content
Creating analog content in the past
When people take pictures they shoot a series of them in order to pick out the best afterwards.
When people used analog cameras to take pictures they took the time to think about the picture, the positioning, the layout, the content, the expression, the lightning.
The entire composition was well-thought out as every image made was real out of the pocket money due to the high cost of the film and the development cost.
This slow creation process has been lost in this digital world.
Analog content is shooting pictures with a photo camera or movies on photographic film, writing on a type writer and speaking a text into a tape recorder.
The carrier of the content can be paper, film, wax disk, canvas, stone, …all unalterable and relatively expensive.
Digital content is all content that is being produced and generated using digital media which can be erased or altered easily.
Analog craftsmanship vs digital fast food
When creating analog content you have to plan, prepare and know exactly what you will be doing next as any creation results in real out of the pocket money: the carrier of the content and the time invested.
Changing analog content requires to redo the entire scene or page as the content in most cases is not erasable (except tape recorder) or modifiable.
This requires craftsmanship and a thinking process.
When creating digital content you work mainly using trial and error (erase).
Or even with post-modification using a tool like Photoshop or the backspace on your keyboard.
You don’t care so much about planning, thinking and organizing but point and shoot: like fast food.
After the content creation process the good content is selected from the all the content created and digitally improved.
Note: We have altered this text several times before publishing, but is this the best we could create?
Due to the fact the creator of analog content needs to plan, prepare, think over and use all his expertise before and during the creation it is likely the content will have higher value than digital. The brains of the creator have been processing the content several times before the physical creation.
Digital content creation is more like having a series of trials and select the best results or what approaches the most what you intended to achieve or present.
Could it be possible that due to the lacking long preparation and thinking process the better content is with analog content instead of digital ?
What do you think what generates the best content: analog of digital media?
Due to the high cost involved using and processing analog media we will stick to digital media even we are convinced analog content would be better
