A look at the advent of web video.

1. The Connected World
The rise of internet video

2. Last week
We looked at the different ways we can can interact with
interactive video. What were they?
● Changing the narrative
● Changing the view (or camera angle)
● Choosing the content we want to watch

3. Last week
We looked at some different types of interactive videos
including
● Choose your own adventure films (eg. Bandersnatch)
● 360 videos (eg. national geographic documentary)
● Online e-learning videos (eg. Adobe Audition tutorial
series)
● Clickable music videos (eg. ASOS)

4. Last week
You began to think about the different uses of interactive
video:
● To entertain us
● To empower us (by putting us in control of the story)
● To engage us (by making us feel like we are there)
● To educate us (by helping us to understand a subject)

5. This week
You will think about the different platforms & devices we
can access digitial video on, and how that has changed over
the years.

6. By the end of the lesson, you
MUST understand the evolution of internet video.
SHOULD identify the key features of a Video-On-Demand
service.
COULD explain the difference between streaming and
downloading.

7. The places where we access video has changed
over the years.
When you were born (circa 2002)
where did people access video?

8. The main platform people
watched video on was
broadcast TV.
Who recognises this?
This is a TV schedule,
it tells you what is
playing on each TV
channel, and when.

9. What changed?

10. The Internet (A LONG, LONG TIME AGO)
In the late 1990’s dial-up internet
meant that suddenly everyone had
access to the internet, and was
finally able to play video games
against their friends and watch
funny cat videos.
However....

11. Dial up internet could only send a small amount of
data at a time

12. Video files areBIG

13. The internet was good for reading articles
...but you couldn’t watch
video over it.

14. From the early 2000’s broadband started
to become more popular. It was capable
of sending more data, faster.

15. By 2006 half the homes in the UK had
broadband.

16. The internet revolutionised the way video is
broadcast and consumed.

17. What different devices
can we watch video on?

18. When can we watch it?

19. What can we watch?

20. In 2005 was launched, one of the 1st VOD
streaming sites launched.
What is VOD?
Video-On-Demand is a service that lets the viewer pick
what video they want to watch, and when they want to
watch it.
How is that different from traditional Broadcast TV?

21. So… how has VOD & YouTube changed the world?

22. How does YouTube work?

23. YouTube & video streaming.
YouTube works by streaming videos. What is video streaming?

24. Video streaming.
Video streaming involves continuously sending the video file as small packets of
data, which are opened and played by the user as they are being received; this
means the viewer does not have to wait for the entire video to download before
playing it.

25. Why is video streaming so useful to modern
viewers?

26. What are the weaknesses of video streaming?

27. What is the other way we can play videos from the
internet?

28. What are the benefits of downloading a video?

29. What are the weaknesses of downloading a video?

30. What different devices can we watch VOD services
on?

31. Task 1: Digital Video, the net & VOD
Write a detailed history on the rise of VOD streaming,
using Netflix & YouTube as a case study.
● What different devices (platforms) do we consume digital
video on?
● How has digital video changed over the past 10 years (DVD,
Freeview, downloading, streaming)?
● What is VOD? Why is it so popular?
● What different VOD services are there, and how do they differ?
● What impact has video streaming had? Is it more popular than
downloading, & why? What VOD services can you download
video from? What VOD services can you stream from?
● What different types of interactive video are there on