This document outlines an assignment to produce an interactive film with branching storylines and original sound design. It consists of 6 assignments across two units: 1) Digital video for interactive media, including essays on interactive video and planning/filming/editing a digital video sequence. 2) Soundtrack production, including essays on sound in film and recording/planning audio assets to produce a mastered soundtrack for the edited video sequence. The document provides examples of interactive video types, discusses interactivity and its purpose, and assigns research and discussion tasks to understand principles of the interactive medium before planning and producing the student's own interactive film.

1. Interactive video

2. Before Christmas
What were you working on?

3. Today
You will be beginning a new project, which you will work on
until the end of the year. This project is made up of 2 units:
● Digital video for interactive media.
● Soundtrack production for moving image.

4. What will I be doing?
You will be planning & producing an interactive
film, with branching storyline options and a
creative, original sound design.

5. What assignments will I need to submit?
This project will be made up of 6 assignments:
● 2 written essays
● 1 planning portfolio
● 1 detailed audio planning portfolio
● A variety of audio recordings for your film.
● An interactive film, uploaded to a video on demand
platform.

6. Unit 62: Digital Video for Interactive Media
LO1: ESSAY 1 “INTERACTIVE VIDEO”
Understand principles of digital video technology in interactive media.
LO2: PLANNING PORTFOLIO
Devise a digital video sequence for an interactive media product
LO3: FILMING
Shoot and source digital video assets for use in an interactive media product
LO4: FINAL EDITED VIDEO SEQUENCE
Create a digital video sequence for use in an interactive media product following
industry practice.

7. Unit 38: Soundtrack Production for moving image
LO1: ESSAY 2 “SOUND IN FILM”
Understand relationship between sound and picture in moving image production
LO2: RECORDINGS (SPOT, SOUND EFFECTS, STEPS, ADR, AMBIENT)
Record audio for moving image
LO3: AUDIO PLAN (AUDIO FLOW CHART, ANNOTATED STORYBOARDS)
Devise a soundtrack for a moving image production
LO4: MASTERED SOUNDTRACK FOR EDITED VIDEO SEQUENCE
Produce a soundtrack for a moving image production

8. What is interactivity?
The process of two things
working together, and
influencing each other.
An action, and a consequence.

9. What is ‘interactive video’?
A video which the user can control, or interact with.
This can be through the use of clickable hotspots or
buttons that perform an action when pressed; through the
viewer having control over narrative choice; or through the
viewer selecting the field of view.
In traditional video the director is in control, but interactive
video gives the viewer agency / control.

10. What is ‘interactive video’?
What different types of interactive video can you think of?
● Videos on the VOD services (YouTube, Netflix).
● DVD & Blu-Ray video.
● 360 videos.
● Choose your own adventure videos.

11. Example 1: Choose your own adventure
What is the purpose of this video?
How is it interactive?
What do you like about choose
your own adventure videos?
What are the opportunities?
What are the drawbacks?
What would be difficult about
producing a choose your own
adventure video?

12. Example 2: 360 video ‘National Geographic: Lions’
What is the purpose of the video?
How is it interactive?
What do we like about 360 videos?
What do we dislike about 360
videos?
What are the opportunities of
producing a 360 video?
What would the difficulties of
producing a 360 video?

13. Example 3: E-Learning “Audition tutorial series”
What is the purpose of this series?
How is it interactive?
What are the opportunities?
What are the drawbacks?
What would be difficult about
producing an interactive E-Learning
series?

14. Task 1: Interactive video research
Working alone, select 4 different videos from the list on Moodle. Watch &
interact with these and then write up a detailed case study, explaining:
● The videos purpose
● A detailed description of its narrative
● How the producers have used interactivity
● The benefits of interactivity to the video experience
● The drawbacks of interactivity to the video experience
● What platform the video is meant to be viewed on.

15. Task 2: Film showing
As part of your project you will be producing a “choose your own adventure” video.
Over Christmas the Interactive video ‘Bandersnatch’ has been making headlines.
We will watch it as a class and then discuss how the film-makers have used the
medium.