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Tim,
I cant get this till monday morning as its saved on college PC's.
Sorry, it will be uploaded monday morning.

More common then videos now are DVD's, they are an excellent example of a common household interactive media. How they work is they store information and video like movies, TV shows, extras, deleted scenes and often commentary and when put into a player or computer you can view and watch them. Much like DVD's are CD ROM's, once put into the computers disk drive you can rip music on to there CD's and from then on you have a CD ROM you can play anywhere and listen to the music you put on there. Interactive media can even be found on your TV nowadays, the 'Red Button' found on 'sky' controllers takes the viewer to a another platform that gives further information on a program and can also take you to another part of the TV show.

Kiosks are usually found in busy town or city centres, they are like small stalls that sell anything from maps, flyers, literature to most commonly newspapers. Kiosk are also great places to find out information about the place your in, encouraging you to explore. Another interactive media that isn't found in the home is presentations, most often given in business meetings, schools and colleges. They are often made up of researched information and joined with a speech from the lectures explaining the information and its relevance.

Something that interactive media's have help become more popular is short films, there are many websites now dedicated to allowing people to watch short movies, such as www.shortfilmcentral.com. The internet also promotes film festivals, encouraging people to go watch small short independent films. Besides promoting and allowing people to watch short films interactive media's are also a great way of promoting larger films through trailers, on websites like www.filmtrailers.com and www.IMDB.com. Most successful movies now have a large interactive campaign and promotion behind them, such as their own websites. Interactive media has also pushed User-generated content to the for front of the public eye. This is when ordinary unknown people create video's and upload them on to websites, the largest of which is www.youtube.com. Many of the more popular ones catapult the creator into a new strange sort of stardom. One of the first to become part of the new wave was panacea81 , her real name is Lauren Luke. She creates make-up tutorials under her user name, the popularity of these eventually lead her to being offered a book deal on her tutorials and she has also been on day time TV programs such as 'This Morning'.

As well as being a great platform to promote movies interactive media's have also given way to a new type of marketing, known as Viral Marketing. This has take of because its a free and effective way of advertising a product. The most clever and effective adverts don't even let you know their really advertising anything. Such as '“Why every guy should buy their girlfriend Wii Fit.”', this video showed a guys secretly filming his 'hot' girlfriend on the Wii fit shaking her hips, the video was a instant hit on YouTube and emails. Apart from advertising through videos there are also many advertising Pop-ups on the internet, this however is less common as the user often finds them annoying and will ignore them.

Interactive media's also promote learning, E-learning has become quickly popular. You can go online or order DVD's and find tutorials that help people earn things such as languages and how to work things.

Interactive media's can be vast and confusing but the basics are very simple. Compression is what a video would usually go through before putting on a website. Compression is where the quality of the data is reduced to make the file smaller and quicker to deliver and receive. After compression the is often embedded on a website, this means placing a HTML code in a page, the result is ou video will be able to be viewed in full on the site. 'Buzz' words can be placed with the video to hep people find it, this is called video tagging.

Another way of viewing a video online is streaming or downloading. Streaming means to watch a file with out storing or saving it to your own computer. Where as download means the sending and receiving of data that is saved to your computer.

To conclude, in my findings and research I have discovered that in the modern world the use of interactive media's has become part of everyday life. To ignore it would be to ensure your product to fail. Interactive media's will only grow and become better quality, the only way to stay in the media business successfully is to grow with it.

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Music Video . . . .

Evaluation

This is the finished article of our music video project, our song was called Imagine us although the song was predominantly written by Jessica, I did help add some lyrics and I also sung on the recording. We all came up with the actual idea and style for the music video, it was a very organic process and it is hard to say if any one person had more influence on it and put more ideas forward.

I also did all my own per-production although it was corroborative and team work when it came to things such as the storyboard to ensure we all had the same kind of ideas and pace.

What I did take a big role in was filming and actual camera work, I did almost all forest panning shots and location shots, and a lot of the shots that made it into the final edit were my work. I also set up a lot of the group shots, this was mainly because Jessica and Lucy were the main people in our video and it would have been difficult to get back into shot where they were placed, looking back although it might have been better to have two other people playing the leads as it meant the couldn't do much filming, even though I did enjoy getting shots and experimenting. I think I did do the camera work rather well, I particularly like the first panning shot you see in the video after the sunrise, it was supposed to be a straight shot but I just thought the tilting upwards just lead though into the music quite well and it did. We did use a some different footage techniques in our video, such as the Quick time capture (still edited together very quickly) a lot of the thanks for that go to Lucy as she was much more skilled at photography or though she did help and show me and Jessica how to shoot the shots, it was also her initial idea to use this technique. I also took a strong role in editing, I logged and captured all of our two tapes worth of footage and then happily worked together with the rest of my group to edit and put the video together, however further in when it became necessary that there where other things needed to be done and my partners went to go do them while I finished edited, then they would come back and we would discuss what I had done and if changes and tweets were needed. I think it worked well in the system because it meant we weren't getting in each others way and we always had a fresh pare of eyes on the edit.

Apart from how to use quick time capture I learnt how to create a stripboard successfully, this I created for our group. I was also able to refresh my memory on how to compress and upload a video, in truth I wasn't happy in the quality of the video once it was compressed but it was more a matter of time and file size, because of the footage techniques and camera we used for the stills the music video's file size was enormous and had to be compressed quite a lot for it to be upload able to YouTube and even then it took a significant time for me to upload. It is a shame but thankfully it didn't effect the sound or music to much.

The storyline was of the love between two woodland creatures and the narrative followed a day in the life of the woodland creatures who are celebrating the love between the main characters. Although our original idea was the typical love song video, set on a beach with two people in love and so on, we ended up specifically not wanting to go down that route, so inspired by Florance and the Machine's music video to the song 'dog days' even though we new it was going to be harder. Looking back I still think the idea we went with was the best and most interesting but if we could I think we should have done a little more planing. For example because our location was outside, reasonably remote, only accessible by foot and as we shot over several days it was hard to control lighting it was hard not break the continuity of the final video. Also we had carry all of our equipment and props to the location, although this was a bit of a pain we all agreed it was worth it for how it would look on camera.

When we finally aired what would be the final edit to an audience of our class the feedback we received was surprisingly good and encouraging. Many said they thought the Mise-En-Scene worked well and that the costumes and they way in which the creatures moved helped the to identify the creatures a such and how they felt about one another. They also said that they found the direction we went with the unusual love song music video worked and was 'unique', which is what we were trying to achieve. A lot of people also respected our decision to sing in our music video task as everyone else rapped in theirs, this reassured me and Lucy as we both did not like the way in which we sounded. Our class also helped us decided on a genre for our song and it video as we couldn't decide. Most said it remained them of a Snow Patrol song because of its backing track and that the sings was a good mix between pop and alternative. The three of us were very happy with the classes suggestions, help and feedback over all.

I was happy with the end result of our music video, although we could have done better planing and taken more footage, as a lack of became a problem in editing, I think we successfully created a good, well put together Music video that achieved the goals we set our selves.

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