Working with interactive media products

The interactive media product I am working with is Internet webpage such as YouTube.

YouTube is a website which is video based with videos on everything you really need. These videos can be anything from video game walkthroughs to how to apply make-up. It is for people who do not fully understand how to use equipment, who seek entertainment from famous You Tubers  (people who have channels that people can subscribe to which notifies the people who have subscribed when the you tuber has uploaded a video.)

There isn’t a specific age range, gender orientation, demographic lifestyle of people that use YouTube. It can be anything from 10-year-old children to 80-year-old pensioners.

There isn’t much text on YouTube. The only text on it is to describe what the videos are with short bios, titles and bios of the you tubers channel. The layout is very good and basic. It has you’re recommended videos and categories down the left side of the screen. There is also a search bar on the top middle of the screen to directly search for what you want to watch or searches close to it.

As you can see by the image there is a search bar on top and recommended videos down the side and description of the video on the bottom of the video.

Overall strengths of YouTube is that it is quite basic and easy to use. Also the fact that there is many video walkthroughs and helpful videos to whatever you need help with.

 The weaknesses of YouTube is mainly based in the comment section where you will most likely get harassed by all the people known as “trolls” of the Internet who will insult you for everything that you may do wrong.

Design Research

Their are very many different types of logos and ideas for designs to make for yourself, if you need to have a look at other logos to get you're ideas flowing then just type in logo's on Google, or even better think of companies and developing businesses such as Gucci, Jagex, Hollister, Bethesda  etc.

I quite like the concept of this logo. This is from a game known as "Diablo 3." the colours and style of the logo match up and suit the look of it. With it being so colour contrasted around the logo it brings a nice crisp edit towards the logo.

I like other ideas like clothing brands. I especially like Impericon. It is a basic logo with nothing to fancy, but its broad and stands out so it is easily recognisable.

I also like the style of illusion and tye dyed items. This specific t-shirt below is one i like because its using lines and just a normal glass of water in front of the lines so it makes the lines behind the glass bend around like its really there.

Tye Dye shirts like this one below is the style i like, the colours aren't to bright so they hurt your eyes, but yet still colourful with a cool pattern to show off and flow with you're own fashion 

One Week

 

 

This is a black and white silent film with subtitles explaining what is happening. Directed and acted out by Buster Keaton. In the instruction of the film it shows two young people getting married and travelling to their new house which they had been gifted by a friend or family member. with antics on the way to the house with the purvey driver they finally arrive at the destination where they find out they have a box full with house parts which means they have to create their own house.

 

 A little bit later into the week an man came delivering a piano holding it above his head with one hand, passes it over to buster who drops the piano straight on top of him which makes him not able to move. The delivery guy picks the piano up off of him and later walks off after he gets the signature he needs to confirm delivery.

 

 

 

 He tries lifting his piano through the window with a rope leverage but his roof starts collapsing like it was elasticated. which fires his friend into the roof when he lets go. he eventually gets the piano in the house. It jumps to the next scene after a picture showing "a perfect day" has appeared.

 

 

 

His wife is in the bath whilst he is trying to put the chimney on the roof, if keeps jumping to him then his wife in the bath, she drops the soap out the bath she goes to reach for the soap, stops then the camera man puts his hands over the lens so you cant see her naked.

 

 

 

The next day which is Friday the 13th he has guests come over and he shows them to their rooms, whilst he is doing this he realises his roof is leaking so he goes outside to explore and find out why. When he goes outside he experiences heavy winds and strong rain, when he tries to fix the leak his house starts spinning like a merry-go round. He is trying to push it back in place but the winds were to strong.

 

 

 

The next day a man comes up to them telling them that they are in to wrong lot so they have to transport their house across the train lines. This is were it gets even worse for the newly weds. The car breaks in half whilst transporting the house across the tracks, even worse when their is a train trying to get past. The train narrowly misses the house so they are relieved. But what they do not realise is that another train is coming the opposite way and smashes through the house.

 

 

I thought that "One Week" was a very good silent film, you could tell what was happening even without words or sounds. You could see the comedic sides to it with the gestures and the things happening around Buster which made it funny.



Buster Keaton

 

 

 

Joseph frank "buster" Keaton was an American actor, vaudevillian, comedian, filmmaker, stunt performer, and writer. He was a multi caused actor. he worked along side of Charlie Chaplin, and Harold Lloyd , Stan Laurel, roscoe "fatty" Arbuckle. Buster was brought into a Vaudeville family which to keep tradition he was named after his father "joseph Keaton" which made him sixth in the line to hold that name. He was a silent film director so his comedic side was not through words, but through actions and gestures. He created his first film in 1917 which was a two-reeler called "The Butcher Boy." He was a very surreal man with his abnormal film making ways. In his film "One week" you can tell how surreal and comedic he was just by his props, the house, the trains leaning to the side as its driving down the track, and the fact the car drove off without the other half of it.

Working with interactive media products

The interactive media product I am working with is Internet webpage such as YouTube.

YouTube is a website which is video based with videos on everything you really need. These videos can be anything from video game walkthroughs to how to apply make-up. It is for people who do not fully understand how to use equipment, who seek entertainment from famous You Tubers  (people who have channels that people can subscribe to which notifies the people who have subscribed when the you tuber has uploaded a video.)

There isn’t a specific age range, gender orientation, demographic lifestyle of people that use YouTube. It can be anything from 10-year-old children to 80-year-old pensioners.

There isn’t much text on YouTube. The only text on it is to describe what the videos are with short bios, titles and bios of the you tubers channel. The layout is very good and basic. It has you’re recommended videos and categories down the left side of the screen. There is also a search bar on the top middle of the screen to directly search for what you want to watch or searches close to it.

Overall strengths of YouTube is that it is quite basic and easy to use. Also the fact that there is many video walkthroughs and helpful videos to whatever you need help with.

The weaknesses of YouTube is mainly based in the comment section where you will most likely get harassed by all the people known as “trolls” of the Internet who will insult you for everything that you may do wrong.

Automatic writing

my demons haunt me for me reason and will not drown, but I am not going to die tonight, I wont let them get me. but my life revolves around beating these with music and creativity . smoke fills the fields of barley and flows with gas. the flowers grow but become weary and cannot move on but nor back, forever frozen in time and movement of sound pauses around these. cartoons look so real, almost more than life itself and confusion arises. are you sick of it? sick of the realism? what is realism you ask? well can you tell me what is surreal and oppose it. Its not because of me its because of you that this happened, what do you think would become of this? nothing but regret and no happiness. why would I think the sky is blue when its grey? wake me when its bright and its all my fault. but all I know is that nothing is right so you can flip onto a penguin.

Automatism

 

 

Automatism is recognised in two different forms which is drawing and writing. Initially started by surrealism artists such as Andre Masson, Salvador Dali, Joan Miro, Jean Arp etc.

 

Automatic drawing was developed by the surrealist artists to show the meaning of being subconscious in the weird world we live in. In automatic drawing the hand can move "freely and randomly" across the paper. Its used to use accidental mark-making and is to make the drawing to become a larger scale freed of rational control.

This is a picture drawn by Andre Masson for future reference and to find more pictures.