Interactive Moviemaking in the real world
There is a very interesting artist called Chris Hales. He carries out experiments in interactive moviemaking, a subject that really excites me.
I read about one of his projects on a BBC overview of 'The Future Playground showcase' this morning.
"Interactive artist Chris Hales said he had spent 10 years working on ways to involve audiences in what they saw. Before now he had experimented with touch screens and systems that spot how two coloured balls are passed around to drive a drama. "I've been looking at how you find interesting film forms that are suitable for interactivity," Mr Hales told the BBC News website. The aim of the sound-driven cinema system is to get the audience singing the right notes for long enough to make the system show the next image in the story" (BBC News)
News Sponge tells it this way: “This marriage of sound and vision provides visitors with a screen displaying a series of short animations, which are changed when the viewer sings a specific note. A computer analyses the sound to make sure the sung note is within the tolerated range. In practice, this translates to an interactive film that reacts based on viewer input. If the viewer sings the right note for long enough, the screen may appear to smash.”
Excellent!
Film projects online (like our own wee Stray) have begun to really embrace user participation (i.e sharing content, remixing, pre/post production etc) and I don’t see why film projects offline shouldn’t be following suite. I think we are going to see a lot more of this kind of audience interaction in the next stages of ‘real world’ film. Well I hope so anyway.
AVI anyone?
By michelle, 3 years, 2 months ago - No Comments
You can now download our footage as AVI files!
Open source podcasting
By michelle, 3 years, 2 months ago - No Comments
I just love the ideals and ethos surrounding open source, and it's always an inspiration to hear of different projects (especially creative ones) drawing on this methodology. It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
I was contacted by a man named Ronald Lewis this week. He plans to take an open source approach to podcasting by gathering a global production team for several of the podcasts he currently produces. You can read more about his idea here…you may even want to get involved.
I also came across blogtalkradio.com which takes a similar approach to Ron, but with a focus on opening up the content opposed to production, in the creation of online talkback radio shows. BlogTalkRadio enables anyone who registers on their website to schedule show times and receive callers through an assigned phone number.
Going back to podcasting, for a while now I have been toying with the idea of turning our film submissions into podcasts. This would give our community alternative ways to watch/ experience the films on our website. On the flip side, this would also mean another step for participants to take when submitting their films. Anyway I would be interested to what you think of this idea.
Three film submissions in seven hours!
By michelle, 3 years, 3 months ago - No Comments
You know, I am quite amazed by the way Stray Cinema film submissions seem to roll in all at the same time. It has been two weeks since we last had a submission - that is until today. In the space of seven hours we have had three submissions! This is similar to our last wave of submissions, where we had eight films uploaded over three days.
That brings us up to a grand total of 16 submissions…which means only 14 more to go before we set a date for the screening! Golly I’m excited…
If you are reading this, I wonder if you could take a moment to watch these new submissions, rate them, and provide some feedback for the editors?
Response to Indiworks blog
By michelle, 3 years, 3 months ago - No Comments
There was an interesting article about open source storytelling written on the Indiworks blog on Sunday. I was pleased to see they picked up on our project, but I wanted to respond to some of the points they made about Stray Cinema. Both the article and my response can be found here.
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