Pastorp Innovative Interactivity Experience

Hello class as I searched the website InnovativeInteractivity I found an interesting story called Colorful but Colorblind. This story had article had many different stories, but the one that stood out to me was titled, Avoiding the pitfalls of the street. The amazing thing about the video was the quality of the footage and the use of the English subtitles. The audio provided was in a foreign language so you had to pay close attention to the subtitles. The storyline was awesome and it creative a positive image for our youth.

Behind Bars: The California Convict Cycle

 The Intro to "Behind Bars" was short but I liked how the opening showed a briefcase opening which to me was in indication law and also a symbol of secrets.  The best part of the clip was every word that popped up on the screen also  had a story behind it. The first word was "crime" and then they show a lady expressing that she wasn't a victim but a survivor of a crime that some one committed. Each word describes a story that all relates to the prison system and someone eventually being behind bars.  They also get close and capture emotions, and body language.

Jeff's Favorite "Innovative Interactivity" Links

Hello class, I just wanted to talk about two of the links that I found on the innovative interactivity site.  One of the sites is a link to a video created entirely from still frames.  The video is of a man seemingly walking across the country.  It fascinated me because as I watched it, I wondered how the photographer arranged each shot because the subject's walking motions seemed to be relatively smooth and each shot of him, in each location, had to be carefully planned.

Another interesting link was to a site called The Wilderness Downtown.  It has a space where you enter your childhood address and it takes you on a jogging trip through your old neighborhood courtesy of Google Earth!

Check out the sites and enjoy them for yourself!


Jeff Kearney

Radiolab and NPR Present Words

"Words" by Hill Hoffman and Daniel Mercadante,  was a very clear and crisp video thats captured words with action and sound. The video is very detailed and captures  emotions up close. Everything is in sequence and shows each event of a word like "blow", shows the fan, paper in street, trees and then the guy blowing his noise.  "Split" was another word use with action of a girl doing a split, couple eating a banana split , pants split and then the stockings. I love how every word was showed in a different way.

By Shavonn Jackson

Syracuse Diners and P4CM promo

I want to say that this site or link threw me off......I thought I was on the wrong page.....But then I followed the instructions under the media clip....and I was the Blown Away.....Wow thats what I call interactive media.....This clip gave me a great interactive experience...I must say I have never been able to control my own tour of a diner with a click of a mouse. Great work for Syracuse Diner....Kind of gave me a sense of being in the restaurant. Sound and interaction awesome. Very detailed! This site is innovative and fresh and new!!!!! Do you agree? http://www.syracusediners.com/site/

P4cm is a christian based ministry seeking souls for Christ. This promo is great, Lots of clips including personal interaction, They Look like they are having a good time shooting the shots. Lots of energy, positive, and uplifting stuff going on! http://vimeo.com/10830406 It highlights all the aspects of their ministry.... Enjoy

colorful but colorbind

This was a story about a 18 year old girl and a 20 year old boy getting married. They said that they loved each other very much and that it was not an arranged marriage. however i believe that they should not get married at that age, but they do have two kids together. I do believe in marriages but not that young and for the right reasons. Love is a beautiful thing and I wouldn't dare deny no two people the love of their life . However, how would you know if that;s the only person you know or have known???

http://roma.glocalstories.org/story/we_love_each_other/

undesired

This story reminded me of southern african women when they were cut. They don't know any better therefore they couldn't do better! This has been going on for quite some time. I believe that if a group of people make a trip there to inform and empower these women. This is just unacceptable, the way these women are being treated by the men in their culture. These women are being hated by their husbands and sometimes divorced if they can't produce boys. The woman purpose in life is to bare boys and if it's a girl to keep trying until a baby boy. We need to stand up and speak against these types of traditions that harm other people.

http://www.mediastorm.com/publication/undesired

America. What's really going on?

Here's what's going in America. I found two very interesting articles from a list of top multimedia pieces of 2010. This first piece was produced by a group of students from Berkeley University. "Behind Bars, The California Convict Cycle." The piece focuses on a variety of topics including dying in prison,racial desegregation and a moving video capturing the emotions of six women who lost family members to criminals.
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Meanwhile, on the other side of the country, while america seems to be overly abundant in the female population, Indian women face the opposite dilemma. In fact, there is shortage of women due to the undesirable sex explained in a Media Storm Publication . As in other countries, women are in grave danger and in constant for their life as so many are killed and aborted just for being of female species.
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Angela D.

Words and Actions

Can words express how you feel. For instincts when you say I am cold as Ice. Do know ice get cold, its froze for pete sake. So are you frozen. Or when some one says I'm ghost. We can see you. Words are expressions of one self. Now we all got our sayings and actions we do that makes us who we are but we really do have moments in life that change us. Life is too short mean what you say and say what you mean......

Until next time be bless...... Mama Mia 1heart 1love

Life goes on

In the aftermath of the devastating earthquake that rocked Haiti, the civilians are picking up the pieces and moving on. Travis Fox does a mini documentary that shows how thousands are living out of tents and making a living. For those of us who are just existing, the people of Haiti are trying to live. There is no reason to throw a pity party. Life goes on! If the Haitian people can start all over, after losing everything they owned, Why can't you. http://vimeo.com/11482819

The people of Haiti continue to press on through vigorous conditions. My hat goes off to everyone who helped in the clean up process. There have been a lot of progress, but there is still a long way to go.

http://vimeo.com/tag:haiti

The Economy of a Tent City from Travis Fox on Vimeo.

A year at war

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/world/battalion.html#/NYT/Shorts/10

Real war videos for me are always good. There was one clip that you could hear the bullet whizzing past. This was well put together with interviews and the footage from on the battle field. This is what I have come to love about video production and documentaries they can always bring some thing out about a topic they you may have not known before watching the video. For example, I knew that soldiers wanted to get in a real fight when going to war but this video brought to light how real that desire is. The soldiers talked about there love for getting in a fire fights and the adrenaline rush it is. Wow that is amazing to me and I respect the fact they are willing to put there life on the line for something that they may believe in.

Dying In prison

http://berkeley.news21.com/behindbars/death-in-prison/three-strikes/

I enjoyed this story about dying behind bars. As a person who has never been locked up and only know about jail through television or through some family members. This was a eye opener for me because a lot of times you hear about a person getting life in prison and thats it. It never comes across my mind that some of these people will get old sick and die behind bars. I know what it means to hear that some one got life without the chance of parole but this story provided me with the visual of what that looks like. This story also brought a lot of info about how much it cost to take care of these inmates. As far as the production there were a few times it was out of focus longer than it should but other than that it was good.