FrameTrail: Create, Annotate & Remix Interactive Videos - Joscha Jaeger, research and development
Video contents play an increasingly important role on the web. But despite all technological improvements and unprecedented conceptual possibilities, the moving image format is still trapped inside fixed areas of scrollable text pages. If we want to make video a first class citizen of the web, we need to break up the format, allow for its dynamic reconfiguration and connect it on all ends with the rest of the web. We need to look at film as genre-independent, non-linear information architecture, with time as the main controlling instance and spatiotemporal links as the primary navigation.
Following Ted Nelson’s understanding of literature as “system of interconnected writings” (literary paradigm), we will look deeply into the history of the link in order to redefine its function within a time-based environment. The systematically applied functional intertextuality in hypertexts will be our basis for an exploration of interactive film concepts, interfaces and implementations (namely hypervideo). Inspired by recent approaches towards “object-based media”, we will look at web video technology as a means to create permanently open, dynamically assembled, remixable and web-native moving image formats.
Goal
Based on a profound analysis of hypermedia concepts, participants will learn how to design and create permanently open filmic environments with state-of-the-art web technology, using the FrameTrail Open Hypervideo Environment (programming skills will help, but are by no means required).
Outcomes
Participants will be enabled to set up, use and extend FrameTrail in order to design and create their own web documentary formats.
Schedule
Day 1 (16:00-19:00h, 3 hours):
- Welcome and Introduction of Participants
- General Introduction to FrameTrail and the Open Hypervideo Idea
- Technical Introduction (step-by-step installation and setup of individual projects)
Day 2 (9:00-12:00h & 13:00-18:00h, 8 hours):
- FrameTrail Use Cases, Concepts and Best Practices
- Brainstorming Session and Team Finding
- FrameTrail Hackathon Day 1
Day 3 (13:00-17:00h, 4 hours):
- FrameTrail Hackathon Day 2
- Team Presentations
- Feedback & Wrapping Up
Recommended Reading
T.H. Nelson (1993). Literary Machines. Sausalito, CA: Mindful Press, Edition 93.1. N. Shawney, D. Balcom, & I. Smith (1996). “HyperCafe: Narrative and Aesthetic Properties of Hypervideo”. In Proceedings of the Seventh ACM Conference on Hypertext. New York: ACM. 1-10. M. Brooks (2015): “Future Content Experiences: The First Steps For Object-Based Broadcasting”
Limit: 30 participants