Multimedia Programming

I have been pretty interested in multimedia programming for a while now and I really like the idea of interactive animation. One of the most creative and innovative music videos I have ever seen is the Arcade Fire music video for The Wilderness Down.

http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/

It uses a lot of really interesting techniques. The personalization of providing an address is really creative and makes the experience feel like it is meant for you. I am distracted by the multiple pop-ups but I still think that it is really creative. It is also unfortunate that there are a lot of technical restrictions on what will work with this website because there are only certain attributes that HTML5 supports.

I think a lot of the Multimedia Programming course in the CS Department is a good segway between producing animations and coding them. I think that the potential interactivity of animation is the future of media!

The Wilderness Downtown

I'm sure a lot of you guys have heard of this because it came out a couple of months ago, but I thought it was really cool and relevant to the class. It's a project that google created to an arcade fire song and I think they titled it an "interactive film." Anyway, I had never really seen anything like it before and it's really cool, so you guys should check it out here.