On the first look arranging three YouTube videos next to each other seems pretty odd, but as I was exploring the You3b site I recognized the potential of it.
The combination of three thematically connected or contrasting videos can be quite interesting. (See Metanoise as an example). Changing the volume of the single clips even gives you more variations, therefore it almost feels like a live djing tool. If you guys find more interesting montages on the site, let me know.
This Spiegel-article reminded me of The Tracey Fragments, which I saw at the Berlinale film festival in february.
The feature film heavily uses multi frame views to illustrate the confused state mind of protagonist Tracey (played by the immaculte Ellen Page). It’s quite a usual coming of age story, the multi camera setup really adds a worthy level to the narration.
Until now, releases are affirmed for Canada, Taiwan and Portugal.
The HBO Voyeur Project is an Alternate Reality Game which gives you an inside look on different stories happening in different flats in NYC. There are two interesting facts about the project.
First it’s heavily using spatial montage to show connections between the different stories. There is an option on the website, which shows these connections by highlighting certain flats while dimming others. This technique gives some interesting new options for spatial storytelling.
Second interesting aspect is the marketing claim “Do you like to watch?”. For me it seems like HBO uses the Voyeur Project as an research tool to find out more about coverging media usage of it’s viewers. It’s not only the questions if you like to watch but where (or in which medium) you like to watch.
Get some backgrund information on the project’s blog “The story gets deeper”.
“The HBO Voyeur Project is a collection of multi-media stories that HBO has built around the theme of voyeurism.
See what people do when they think no one is Watching
is the tagline that they have used to describe the experience that starts in the streets of New York City, behind the countless windows that we pass everyday. It comes together in a silent film that will be projected on the side of a building, and extends to the HBO channel, HBO on Demand, and online at HBOVoyeur.com. There are also “artifacts” of the characters everywhere, pieces of story which have been sprinkled around the web and in the real world to heighten the experience for those who like to get involved. However it is experienced in whichever medium, the point of the HBO Voyeur Project is to get the viewer to confront the uncomfortable question: “Do You Like To Watch?”
Link via Bewegungsmelder.
Video helps to promote every product, even toilet seats! :-)
Even though the claim (”Clean is happy“) is quite stupid and the testimonials are way over the top (They try to make you believe that this toilet seat will change your life), the video Interface is well done.
Very slick concept for an agency site from german based Neteye.
The projects are floating around in an interactive 3d space, detailed case studies are presented as a showreel.
Did you see the “DejaVu” Movie with Denzel Washington, where they took photo- and videodata to construct a complete 3d view of a crime scene? Sounds like Sci-Fi? Then check out the demo of the photosynth-technology. They scan photos from any given database (e.g. Flickr) and ananlyze them for similarities to construct 3d models of any given space.
You can even test the application live on the web here.
www.cicatriz.se has been released!
This is the first broadband project by www.mocoro.com
Cicatriz web shop showcases Cicatriz Clothing spring collection using a LO-FI video interface, minimal sounds and a Mac friendly mouse wheel “jump-to-product” / scrubbing feature.
Cicatriz products are displayed using entirely video. Click “View details” to get a higher resolution video with product close-ups.
The shopping interface comes on top of each product’s video, making the add-to-cart process very intuitive. The web shop has been fully developed in Flash and PHP, delivering an integrated solution and avoiding external links such as PayPal.
Finally, I would like to mention the great sound design by Olle Cornéer, www.dibaba.com & www.dadalife.com
Nice idea for a video e-card!
Yugop developed the Eye Project for japanese telecom company KDDI. Customers can send videos or pictures from their mobile phones to the website, where they become integrated into a moving mosaic.
In the Archive section, they used Papervision 3d to map the mosaic onto a threedimensional shape. Papervision 3d is a open source 3d engine for Flash.
As I just was speaking about media theorist Lev Manovich yesterday, today I stumbled about one of the new moving media forms he describes in his works - Spatial Montage. Spatial Montage basically means multiframe applications, and the site of visual effects artist Nastu Abootalebi is a perfect example for the possibilities of this technique. You can watch the pre- and postproduction versions of his works in two screens nex to each other.
Nastuh’s side also shows the limitations of Spatial Montage. Although its only two screens, it’s sometimes very hard to follow the action in both frames.
The side was created by Scholz&Volkmer.