Interactive Work

Our new seminars were taught by Jools who's specialised in Flash software. He asked us to design an interaction piece of work where the user has full control. Jools gave us a "gotostop" template with all the coding done for us so we dont need to code it ourselves. I decided to make a "virtual tour" of nottingham which shows the daily life of a student in university.
The template consists of 2 buttons which if you click them will take you to a certain frame, so for e.g. button1 will take you to frame 20, button 2 will take you to frame 30. My project started off in the Nottingham city square which I got from google images (have made a bibliography so no plagarism :P) and it ahs two options for the user to choose e.g. left button takes the user back to the student halls or the right button takes them to the shopping centre. I continued this and I reached 110th frame so the tour is relatively quite long. I also inputted sounds to my project so that the user can click or move the mouse arrow over a certian object in the picture to make a sound, hence giving the user a more interactive feel (the feel of the user actually being there). So this project concentrates on the whole interaction of the user and the computer, and my project accomplishes this by making the user feel that hes in Nottingham and actually seeing the different places he could go.

Editing the film

As you can see from the raw footage it needed some editing done to it to make it look professionally done because there is a lot of blurring from the camera we used and there are odvious bits in the film that needs to be cut out. Firstly I decided to have a title screen saying "Why me" emphasising the pain of the main actor. Then I cut out the beginning so the start of the movie is plain darkness then the light comes on to me. I added an effect to the film to make the main actor stand out, so the audience concentrates on him, maybe fade out the other characters of the film a bit too. At the end I also added credits, names of everyone who helped make the film.

One shot film (RAW FOOTAGE)

This took at least 7 shoots to take. Now im going to get on with editing this.