The document provides a description and technical details of an interactive menu for the Harry Potter and Chamber of Secrets DVD. It describes scenes and animations from the movie that are used in the menu, including a flying car, Hogwarts Express train, and a tree attacking the car. Techniques like animations, visual effects, color rendering and graphics are used. Advanced techniques like blur, sharpen, distortion and rotation are also employed. Technical information on video format, screen ratio, resolution, frame rate and compression is included.

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Use of text: Interactive Menu – Harry Potter and Chamber of Secrets
(Title, Credits, animated captions, stings,
indents, interactive menus, web banner)
Brief description: At the start there is a flying car over a railway track in countryside then there is a Hogwart’s
What do you see? express train, the steam is coming out from the train while the car is on the track and there is a
close up of harry screaming, seeing a train behind them.
Harry opens the door, looking shocked. The school class/crowd below watching Malfoy in the
air, falling on his bottom.
Elf was banging his head on the drawer while the background was in cloud-like. Harry telling
him to stop.
Harry and Ron looking happy in their class.
Hermione trying to stop the trouble causing by the little blue flying elfs using her wand saying
her spell.
There is a close up shot of the teacher smiling.
Malfoy was flying on the broom, caretaker behind pulling a face.
Malfoy’s dad appears.
Severus Snape casts a spell. It was misty and a close up shot of flying car crashing into a tree.
Tree becomes alive, trying to attack the car. Then below, there is a sign saying, ‘Play Movie’,
‘Scene Selections’, ‘Special Features’ and ‘Language’.
Techniques used: Animations - Elf banging his head, spell coming out of the wand and a tree hitting the car.
Animation, Visual Effects, Colour Rendering, Visual effects - There was a flying car while the train was behind them.
Graphics, Movement Colour Rendering was in their true colour.
Graphics – It’s the car flying and the music that was used alongside the actions.
Movement – Lots of zooming in on faces and fading into another frame.
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Advanced techniques: There was blurred and sharp images together, like Hermione and small blue elf. Hermione was
Blur, Sharpen, Distortion, Rotation, Opacity in sharp contrast and small blue elf was blurred and misty in appearance. The scenery
surrounding the main characters appeared distorted and there was rotation of characters as if
he had been twisted and turned by a spell.
Technical comments:
Video Format, Screen Ratio, Resolution,
Frame rate, Compression
Motion Graphics and Video Compositing Unit 64
Glossary
Motion graphics - Graphics that use video footage and/or animation technology to create the illusion of motion or rotation, graphics are
usually combined with audio for use in multimedia projects.
Compositing video - When there are several different clips of video are layered over one another to create a single image.
Interactive Menus – DVD Interface or Interactive Menus on a web page
Ident – The ‘call sign’ of a channel or production company to identify themselves on screen, usually shown before a programme.
Animated Captions – Animated Graphics layered over an image / video
Web Banners – A form of web advertising that is embedded into a web page. They are used to attract a viewer to their website. A Web
Banner usually a mix of motion graphics and video
Video Format - 3 Main Formats HD, PAL, NTSC. HD is the highest resolution (720 or 1080 vertical lines in the image). PAL is the UK
Standard definition image (576 vertical lines). NTSC is the US Standard definition image (480 vertical lines). Now in the
digital age we now look at video format in terms of pixels (i.e. High definition 1080; 1920 x 1080 or 2,073,600 pixels)
Screen ratio – Standard TV ratio is 4:3; this means that for every 4 units wide it is 3 units high. It is likely that the screen ratio will be
Widescreen (16:9) in a cinematic sequence.
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Resolution – The amount of detail in an image or signal, such as Standard TV Definition and High Definition. See Video Format.
Frame Rate - The number of video or film frames displayed each second (frames per second; fps). PAL frame (standard UK TV) is 25
fps, NTSC (standard US TV) is 30 fps, film is 24 fps. This means as NTSC updates more regularly there is less strobing
(jerkiness).
Compression – The use of Codecs (WMV, DivX) to reduce the file size of a video by a variety of methods. This sometimes means a loss in
image quality (a “lossy”). Codecs are found in Video Cameras, DVD players / recorders, Editing Packages, Video upload
sites)
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