Digital Media Project (in need of snappy name)

I’m working on my digital media project (It really needs a snappier name than this). In theory we’re experimenting around our ideas rather than making them (because we’re a theory course, a notion I find very strange) and my proposal comes out something like the stopmotion below. It’s in HD so choose this function if you’re a fan of legibility.

“A stop motion visualisation of my digital media project. Will scan a twitter feed for tweets talking about Windows 7, pick out keywords grouped into 6 major emotions categories and display one of six video (will be 10 seconds) depending on the most popular emotion at that point in time. Video will display emotions acted out by a PC man of Mac vs PC adverts fame – acted out by my dear friend Liam, who will be rotoscoped.”

JQuery Tutorials

Twitter widget updates every 30 seconds: http://www.myphpetc.com/2009/11/jquery-twitter-streaming-widget-in-30.html

More professional version – similar to Monitter, includes fade-in effect: http://www.ajaxprojects.com/ajax/tutorialdetails.php?itemid=751#start
(Twitter alert, similar thing: http://blog.corunet.com/twitter-alerts-using-twitter-streaming-api/)

via ajaxprojects.com:
Simple PHP Twitter Search ready to use in your web projects – http://www.moretechtips.net/2009/10/realtime-realted-stream-bar-collecta.html
Super simple way to work with Twitter API (PHP + CSS) – http://woork.blogspot.com/2009/06/super-simple-way-to-work-with-twitter.html
Send messages from a PHP page using Twitter API – http://woork.blogspot.com/2007/10/twitter-send-message-from-php-page.html

Yahoo Pipes

http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/

Application?

Learn How to Build a Pipe in Just a Few Minutes @ Yahoo! Video

Useful tutorials for Flex

Important: Adobe learn flex in a week: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/videotraining/flex4beta/index.html

(Not entirely sure caters for project)

Other:

Tutorial on displaying a twitter feed in adobe flex

Book: http://www.scribd.com/doc/2286321/Adobe-Flex-Coding-Guidelines

Digital Media Project Proposal.

Today we spend massive amounts of time on the Internet, immersed in social networking. We now spend one in every eleven minutes online worldwide, and one in every six minutes in the UK on social networking sites. “Social media can be characterised as: “online applications, platforms and media which aim to facilitate interactions, collaborations and the sharing of content.” (Universal Maccann [online])

Advertising in recent decades has enhanced its ability to give us not only a product but now provides intangible values. “Simple ideas, such as computers, have morphed from “technology equipment” into larger, consumer-focused concepts such as “lifestyle entertainment.” […] Intangible assets have become more valuable than tangible assets. Specifically, a consumer’s emotions are tapped into. (Gobé, 2001; xiii)

Philips Sex Talk

>Philips sex talk Philips is monitoring every sexually orientated conversation that users are having on Twitter to help promote its new sensual massager.

Visitors will be greeted with a typographical image of a couple engaged in a loving pose.

The image consists of hundred of different words that people use when talking about sex in their tweets.

When a user rolls over the word, it reveals the total number of times that it has been tweeted that day.

The site also contains the results of an in-depth survey conducted by PR agency OneVoice, which monitors European couples attitudes towards sex. Source: <a href=http://www.campaignlive.co.uk/theWork/news/920835/Philips-sex-talk-Glue-london/" target="_blank"Campaignlive.co.uk

Nice idea, but quite dull.

We Feel Fine

Twistori is based on this project.

2005.
Searches for weblogs for “i am feeling” and “i feel”. Looked at geographical, gender, and age data. Results in a database with 15,000-20,000 new ‘feelings’ a day.

“interface is a self-organising particle system, where each particle represents a single feeling posted by a single individual. Particles’ properties – colour, shape, size, opacity – indicate characteristics. Particles can be checked to see the full sentence/paragraph.

Displays the results in 6 visual forms.

Rotoscoping Tutorial

Rotoscoping tutorial: here

Talking to people in the know.

Talked to two developers.

One works for company that created Philips Sex Talk, a site which monitors and displays tweets describing sex.
Suggests ajax over actionscript as will be more documented.
Pointed towards investigating “J-Query”

Some confusion over CRONS:
[I will require a server than can run CRON jobs; a script that runs every X minutes. CRONs - an automated background setting e.g. used for Twitter to Facebook auto updates. CRONs have a maximum update setting e.g, every 2 minutes.]
Will not be required as will be using real-time updates.

Talked to animator about rotoscoping.
Industry standard animation frame is 16:9, 720×1280 pixels.
For rotoscoping suggests 15 fps (frames per second) instead of regular video 25.
Get a tablet for any rotoscoping or else will go mad.
Suggests a Wacom Bamboo. minimum size of 6x4inches.

Positweets

http://positweets.com

For Mini. Measures positivity on twitter. Uses hashtag #positweets.