Archive for December, 2010
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The video turntable at Encounters
matter 2 media provided the video turntable: a prototype interactive installation at Encounters international short film festival in Bristol, November 2010.
The video turntable plays trailers from the festival. Film fans attending the festival – and only those attending the festival – connect to it on the mobile web (no app required). From the turntable’s web page, they select trailers to play on the turntable and download them to their mobiles.
The projector hangs from the ceiling like a lamp; there are no electronics below it. As the clip of the turntable shows, the projection surface is an ordinary bar table, providing an intimate experience of the films as conversation pieces. Want to talk about the one we’re both going to see later, or the one I saw yesterday? Let’s call it up on the turntable and we can discuss it.
If you look carefully, at one point the video turns to face one of the people standing around it: it senses the presence of those around it and turns to face them.
The experience is casual and informal. If you like, you can place your beer on it while it plays. There are flyers about the turntable laying on it, but the turntable itself explains how to connect to it between videos. It’s a crystal, so only those at the event can connect to it and its content can be made exclusive to them. One way to connect is to read its QR code – see the video below. There’s a simple alternative for those without a code reader.
Contact us if you’re interested in a video turntable for your film festival or cinema lobby – or for any other event where you’d like to distribute content as a conversation piece, exclusively to your attendees.
By the way, the video playing on the table above is a trailer for Farat by Velislava Gospodinova
Featured Posts ~
- The Nth Screen
A platform for films as an audiovisual experience synchronised across participants’ mobile phones and tablets — and whatever other screens happen to be around.
- British Council’s Culture Shift II Kenya
matter2media’s Tim Kindberg ran Culture Shift II Kenya for the British Council in Nairobi, a four-day creative sprint on the theme of the digital moving image. See his blog post for more about this high-energy creative event.
- It’s the Skin You’re Living In
Fevered Sleep’s It’s the Skin You’re Living In, a multi-format film project that explores and challenges images of climate change, is currently on tour in the UK. It features matter2media’s Android app for playing synchronised videos across an installation of mobile phones.
- Coming soon – VideoSync
VideoSync, an app for running synchronised videos across multiple mobile phones
- Magna Mysteria
Mercurial Wrestler’s Magna Mysteria brought magic to Bristol’s Mayfest in 2012.
- Fortnight in Manchester
Proto-type Theater’s Fortnight project took place in Manchester in April.
- Hello Round World
roundness.org — a site for devotees of media and things that are either round-framed, viewed in the round, or both.
- Heads video
A new video of Heads, our multiscreen animation, in action at The Public.
- Poetry in Motion
matter 2 media’s Krstl meets the world of poetry
- RFID+Facebook at Start More Live
Facebook touches at a Ford Focus event in London