The document summarizes an interactive menu for a film. The menu features sliding animated captions and images from the film with low opacity video clips playing behind. All elements are layered onto the screen in a robotic, theme-representing movement. Advanced techniques like blurring, sharpening, and opacity are used to bring elements onto the screen clearly. The menu has a resolution of 1280x720 at 30 frames per second and is encoded for playback on DVDs or Blu-rays in common video formats.

1. Salford City College
Eccles Centre
Creative Media Production
Motion Graphics and Video Compositing Unit 64
Use of text: Interactive Menu
(Title, Credits, animated captions, stings,
indents, interactive menus, web banner)
Brief description: When the menu appears on screen the characters and the location of the film slide onto
What do you see? screen. The interactive options also slide onto screen. Behind the images there are clips from
the film that is featured. It is very colourful and very eye catching. In my opinion clips from the
film in the menu impacts on me more than still images.
Techniques used: All the images and videos are layered on screen one after the other. The video clip is over an
Animation, Visual Effects, Colour Rendering, image of the setting but has a low opacity. The movement of images onto the screen is very
Graphics, Movement robotic, representing the theme of the film. The menu lacks animation but this may be a good
thing as it is not to over the top.
Advanced techniques: The images are very sharp and a video is layered over the top of an image with a low opacity.
Blur, Sharpen, Distortion, Rotation, Opacity Some images blur onto screen where as some fly or just slide. The whole menu is very clear.
Technical comments: The interactive menu has a DivX Codec of 5,6 or 3,4,5,6 depending on if it is played on a DVD
Video Format, Screen Ratio, Resolution, or a Blueray. It has a max ratio of 1280×720×30. The frame rate is 720p or 1080p depending on
Frame rate, Compression the DVD or bluray format.
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