Interactive story telling is a type of computer entertainment where the user navigates a story line.
Our project consists of the viewer picking a certain post from our Facebook page's and seeing what happens in a normal student day.
The earliest storytelling techniques date back to 1970's with effort's roger schank's research at Northwestern University and the experimental program TaleSpin.
I saw online the other day at this website, http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-20048013-52.html
Where the Tribeca Film Studios want to fund digital storytelling so it is a big part of the internet and world at the moment and could be the next big internet sensation.
Also online the Watchmen film has an interactive story and its really good and the objective is to find the killer, but you have to use a search box to tell the site what items you see on a page. I really like this type of story telling but it would be hard for us to do but maybe in the future you could use a first person film and then use a search box to decide what the person doe's like a life like Sim's it would be a good project but a evolution for our project.
Below is the watchmen interactive game:
http://www.6minutestomidnight.com/
Showing posts with label interactive video. Show all posts
Showing posts with label interactive video. Show all posts
Wednesday, 30 March 2011
Storyline For Our Project
I have came up with a storyline for our project. We are each part of scientific experiment where we have been given contact Len's camera's which follows everywhere we go for a day but we have to post on You tube our video's after we film part's of our day. We also have to post on Facebook what we do.
Interactive Video
For our brief this term we have been asked to design and create an interactive video. We started by creating a few storyboards and experimenting with different ideas. There have been many different types of interactive videos in the past, these can vary from choosing what happens next in a story to watching clips and being able to click on different items around the video to view more, a bit like point and click games but video form.
These videos can be uploaded straight onto the internet using websites such as youtube and vimeo, which you can then click different links to go to different places. Another popular method of making interactive videos is through Adobe Flash, many people use Flash to make games, videos and many different types of interactive media.
These videos can be uploaded straight onto the internet using websites such as youtube and vimeo, which you can then click different links to go to different places. Another popular method of making interactive videos is through Adobe Flash, many people use Flash to make games, videos and many different types of interactive media.
Exsiting Approaches
http://www.youtube.com/user/lifeinaday
An existing approach which links closely to what we are doing for our video is 'Life in a day'. Life in a day took place on 24th July 2010 by thousands of people from around the world uploading parts of their day to Youtube. This would later be made into a documentary about an honest glipse of a single day on Earth.
This unique approach to documentary making soon got around and the director Kevin Macdonald and a team of editors ended up with over 80,000 clips which was over 4500 hours worth of footage which he is making into a 90 minute documentary. There have been many teasers put onto Youtube for the film that will be released later in 2011.
An existing approach which links closely to what we are doing for our video is 'Life in a day'. Life in a day took place on 24th July 2010 by thousands of people from around the world uploading parts of their day to Youtube. This would later be made into a documentary about an honest glipse of a single day on Earth.
This unique approach to documentary making soon got around and the director Kevin Macdonald and a team of editors ended up with over 80,000 clips which was over 4500 hours worth of footage which he is making into a 90 minute documentary. There have been many teasers put onto Youtube for the film that will be released later in 2011.
My Video
As we are all doing our own separate idea for the video, I have to come up with a plan of my life in a day and what I will film.
To start with I will film my morning, this will involve my alarm going off, putting towels on the sink ready to shower and making toast and a cup of tea.
The middle part of my day will show me leaving the flat, walking to University and clicking onto the other members of our groups Facebook profiles, this will link us all together as friends in the video, each member of our group will do this. This also shows us all as Digital Natives, and how we have grown up. Social Networks have come a fast growing way of connecting with each other so this is a nice effect for our video and for linking us together.
The end of my day will be myself walking home, and getting into my car. I decided to put this shot into my video as driving is quite a big part of my life. It is a hobbies that I love. I also love Photography so part of my day will shot in photos and put together in sequence.
To start with I will film my morning, this will involve my alarm going off, putting towels on the sink ready to shower and making toast and a cup of tea.
The middle part of my day will show me leaving the flat, walking to University and clicking onto the other members of our groups Facebook profiles, this will link us all together as friends in the video, each member of our group will do this. This also shows us all as Digital Natives, and how we have grown up. Social Networks have come a fast growing way of connecting with each other so this is a nice effect for our video and for linking us together.
The end of my day will be myself walking home, and getting into my car. I decided to put this shot into my video as driving is quite a big part of my life. It is a hobbies that I love. I also love Photography so part of my day will shot in photos and put together in sequence.
Interaction
For our interactive part of our video we have come up with the idea of using Flash. As we are using facebook profiles elsewhere in each of our videos we thought it would be a nice idea to continue this idea and use this for our interactive part of the video.
We will screenshot our facebook group for the file (The Students-Eye film group) and each of our facebook profiles, and put these into Flash. The Students-Eye page will have each of our pictures on it, you will then be able to click on each member of the group and be taken to their Facebook profile page. From this page you will then be able to click parts of the page to take you to either part of our video, or the whole video.
We liked this idea because it makes our interactive film a lot more interesting and fun to make and watch.
We will screenshot our facebook group for the file (The Students-Eye film group) and each of our facebook profiles, and put these into Flash. The Students-Eye page will have each of our pictures on it, you will then be able to click on each member of the group and be taken to their Facebook profile page. From this page you will then be able to click parts of the page to take you to either part of our video, or the whole video.
We liked this idea because it makes our interactive film a lot more interesting and fun to make and watch.
Tuesday, 29 March 2011
Our Idea's
Our group has been discussing what we can do for our interactive video today, and we have come up with the idea of making a point of view Student Life video. This video will be from our own perspective of student life, what we will do is film important parts of our day, and edit it together to make a short video about students lives. As there are 4 of us we will only need a few minutes of footage each otherwise this will become too long. Each video will be different as we will all have our own point of view and different lives.
As for making it interactive we have discussed a few possible ideas between us these involve:
1. Passing or having 1 familiar object in each of our own videos.
2. Making it in Flash and being able to click on different parts of the video to change/go to different things.
3. Uploading all of our videos to youtube/vimeo/flickr etc and making a story out of them. This will involve going to different links to see different parts of each others days.
We haven't quite decided on what we will use for our interactive part of the video yet, so we are going to start filming our daily life and editing the video footage now before we decide.
As for making it interactive we have discussed a few possible ideas between us these involve:
1. Passing or having 1 familiar object in each of our own videos.
2. Making it in Flash and being able to click on different parts of the video to change/go to different things.
3. Uploading all of our videos to youtube/vimeo/flickr etc and making a story out of them. This will involve going to different links to see different parts of each others days.
We haven't quite decided on what we will use for our interactive part of the video yet, so we are going to start filming our daily life and editing the video footage now before we decide.
Thursday, 10 March 2011
im guna kick start things off by showing off some research on youtube
I stumbled across this video on You tube and it sparked idea's take a look at the video first:
What I like about this film is the way you decide what happens in the film. So near the end you get asked weather you want to let the guy in your car. This is what we kind of want on our video's like a path you can follow also in our video we intend to put a small video. in the corner to show what other people are doing while we are on the main screen.
What I like about this film is the way you decide what happens in the film. So near the end you get asked weather you want to let the guy in your car. This is what we kind of want on our video's like a path you can follow also in our video we intend to put a small video. in the corner to show what other people are doing while we are on the main screen.
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