Task 1 : Research Material

Research 

      Interactivity, sound and motion added to web pages.

the first site that I looked at was the national marine aquarium I had decided to research the site for this category because of the 360 tour.It seems to keep your interest by letting you look around by dragging the mouse around the screen to view the room but when you stop looking around the room you can click tags which will either tell you a fact about the aquarium , fish or offers they give.The site had a few faults i had seen for example on the tour unless you were on full screen if you had clicked a fact you would need to start the tour again. the site itself also has more use than to inform for example they also sell tickets on-line and arrange parties and events

the second site I saw was this site known as 2advanced studios which is a games design and  animation company I found this interactive because that something was always moving weather it was the background or foreground its purpose it to show off their work and advertise themselves for business also saying their previous big clients 

    

         Single-user games/quizzes for distribution on interactive learning and testing materials for distribution over the web or on CD.

this is a game called spent it is a interesting game it uses many real life situations to see if you can live a month with paying bills and living ,including getting a job and a place to live. if you got no money you can do 3 options to survive which are getting a loan stealing for your child and donating plasma as you make decisions  it ill also give you facts to do with that option.ate the end it will tell you he money you got.

the reason that i find this game interesting is because the subject of the game is a little dull however it seems to have made it fun by putting the game into fun situations as well as providing facts. the aim of the game is to inform the player to be able to finances better

    

     Software product tutorials.

this is a Photoshop tutorial on refining edges it shows that the edges refined will improve by blurring edges fast without making the whole image difficult to see the refine edges now can be used to be able to cut images a lot easier
          Presentations, training materials or interactive touch screen kiosks that provide instant information for exhibition visitors.

interactive kiosks are good at providing information by letting you see/play with what it is advertising in many cases it advertises the biggest sellers in the store/location. when they are not being used they show trailers and videos to be able to attract attention of people passing by .

 Animation for output to videotape or streaming web movies.

[ the 1st movie is a animation called french toast which is about a man who forgets their wallet in a restaurant
as the day goes on he gets in more trouble and stress builds up as the bill increases .I think that this was a interesting animation because he gets so worried when he finds the mask the waiter and mayor i think it is think he is a criminal shows a problem which keeps the viewer want to see the rest of the animation.


750 word essay from my research

After doing my research I had found that the best form of informing and interactivity for the future is the internet

I started my research by looking at the aquarium website. Due to the site had various forms of interactivity. One of which was a 360 degree tour which was simply a walk around the building explaining what the areas were. And the site with facts to get the viewer interested in the fish there. They have videos that are of the fish that are there that may make the person more interested in looking at the fish and go into the aquarium 

Another  form of interactivity in a site is to use the background  that  always has something going on which will almost always keep the interest of  the viewer this is good because the more interactivity the site had increased the odds of a potential client. The more clients that the site can provide the more likely that it would be able to increase the quality and the popularity of the company 

In my research I came across a game that was only about making decision’s to determine how your life would turn out following the choices you make in the game this was interesting due to the way how it is completely user input and from this I had found out that the more outcomes the more interested the user will become with the form of interactivity.

Then I had researched software tutorials and how they often wok they work in 1 of two ways one way is to show the viewer how to do it step by step with screenshots and the other way is to  record one person doing the whole thing and the viewer can stop and play when they come to that point and continue this classes as interactivity by one person getting involved by following one person’s examples and following on with it  is different to most forms of interactivity due to most forms of interactivity because it doesn't require direct interaction with the user 

These are similar to each other because they teach you how to do things weather

You piece the steps together or watch how it is done if it goes correct then you learn how to put these skills that you learn together to be able to make other pieces that are better than the tutorial and as you skills develop the less likely that tutorials will be needed.  

Then I had researched kiosks and information stalls these have interactivity by letting anyone try out a game for free these often increase the sales of a game if the person who plays it enjoys it 

In the end I had researched short movies 

The first short movie was called French toast which was about a man who forgets their wallet and starts to panic and just keeps drinking more and more tea / coffee to keep more time before he has to pay  

And from this I found out that short Stories keep the viewer watching by using curiosity to keep the animation to continue 

another was jungle jail a bit similar to French toast with some aspects but different in others the jungle jail is about a man who is in jail and he thinks that a bug will make him the strongest person there but it won’t the aspects that are similar are that they both use emotions to be able to keep the viewer watching the clip this one uses humour neither real words however use simple gesture to explain what is happening also the conclusions will be something simple and humour-us

in conclusion most forms of interactivity do not require direct interaction but when the 

site / form of interactivity looks more appealing it keeps the user more interested  and continue to use the form

Sound is also a useful feature because it will make a person want to listen to the rest and find out the rest of the interaction is about .but not all interactivity is perfect for example 360  tour for the national marine aquarium , the game that I had played based of choices had no visual aid or sound effects just music

The short animations had a lack of interesting points the kiosks only show the beginning sections or  demo and so on but these helpfully will improve in the future


In my opinion digital media is better than traditional media because it requires less materials to create, it is better for the environment, includes interactivity, includes sound.


for example to create a traditional media it would take more pages to print costing more money and travel time than it would digitally , the trees it would take to make the paper to be able to print the transportation for the lumber mill to the place to make the paper from there to the printing location from the printing location to the stores  and in ll that time it could take it would be much more expensive in terms of money , time and environmentally.

another advantage to the digital media is for example adding sound and interactivity such as on a classic traditional comic it would "say wwwwwwhhhaaccckkk" when in the digital versions it will be able to animate it as well as adding the sound to the motion. adding interactivity could be as simple as going back a page or as complex as making the character maker the motion or even you make the choices in the characters situation