The presentation we looked at showed us a number of different ways that YouTube videos can be used as an interactive device. We watched an interactive video made for Jamie Oliver's YouTube which included him handcuffed to a wall and you could choose how you wanted to abuse him, That sounds a lot worse than it actually was, it was all for comedy purposes!
We were then shown a couple videos that used the interactivity to tell a story where the audience had the chance to choose what path they wanted the story to go. One of the videos was a more serious story about a man living in a rough area and you had to chose what his actions where, arguably none being the right one. The other video we watched was a more humerous story called 'Ronald Has A Spider On His Head' which used the annotations in very funny way, also did I mention all characters where in Lego form, which is always a plus!
We also then looked at using interactivity for education purposes and then also for campaign purposes. I didn't really find the videos used for educational purposes that good except for the guitar video. This basically involved a man playing a guitar with the chords below which you could click on and then he would play the corresponding chord for you.
This is the standard Triangle that is used which we had looked at previously in Level 4, but then we looked at some modifications to the triangle which interested me.
These images show how the triangle has been modified for example the 1st image shows how there can be sub plots within the three plots and then the second shows how the reader is missing information and becomes the 'Investigator'. It then got very very complicated as we looked at some structures where there was break off angles that led back to a core narrative.
I got into a group with Michael Shiells and Dave Molloy and we discussed options and ideas. We decided on an idea which was that we would have two characters and they would both be going for the same job and they would be preparing for the interview. We started to plan the narrative but quickly realised that using two characters was going to prove to be very difficult, taking into consideration how much time we had. So we settled with using one character. We then tried to create a narrative that was more detailed as we were only using one person now. We wanted to give the user choice but not a massive amount as this would over complicate things, but we still wanted it to engage the audience.
We filmed on the day that we got the brief and compared to all of the other pieces we did, this one was the most fun for me, for a number of reasons including the fact that out angle was humour for this piece. But overall this was more useful for me because it included standard filming, editing and then using the YouTube annotation programme. Also I think that our idea was really good and that we could make it work well if we were able to edit it properly.
When it came to to the editing, we used Premier again, which I think is very good as it doesn't complicate anything and is good for quick edits. We put our options in text in Premier instead of adding them into the YouTube Spotlights, as we could change the font and size easier. Also we slowed down some of the shots to prolong the time that the user would get the choice to choose their options.
We had to switch around some of the shots to allow the narrative to finish off without then skipping to other parts of the video as we edited the video so all of the scenarios were together rather than linking to a lot of different videos. This was better because it meant you didn't have to load up loads of different videos and could watch the whole thing on full screen.
We were very happy with the finished product and we think we conveyed our comedy element well!
Here's the link to our video - The Interview
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