Interactive video
With Mozilla’s PopcornMaker
- YouTube video
- Clyp audio
- SoundCloud audio Vimeo video
- HTML5 media
- Image links
Using PopcornMaker, video can be transformed into a more interactive sort of medium. Instructors can use it to pause a video mid-stream and pose a question for deeper thinking, to pop-up translations where necessary and to provide additional resources from the web, in context, while the video is playing. This makes it an interesting tool for storytelling, enhanced lectures, instructional vid- —eos and especially student projects.
INTRODUCING EVENTS
Creators add additional information and interactivity to videos by placing events in the timeline. Events occur at a particular point in time while the video is playing and can be presented one at a time, or simultaneously to trigger an action. What sorts of events can be triggered?
- Pauses and loops
- Pop-in text and clickable links
- Google Maps
- Loops and skips within the video timeline
- Wikipedia articles
SHARING VIDEO MASHUPS
Projects created with PopcornMaker can be shared and remixed by others. The enhanced videos are stored online and accessible by anyone who has a link. In addition, because projects are created and stored using the online editor, creators can collaborate on projects.
ENHANCING EXISTING VIDEO
- Storyboard your ideas.
- Create a new project by providing a title, description and tags. Think of it as a blank video at this point.
- Organize audio and video resources. Creators have op- —tions to use single or multiple audio and video sources. Audio from video clips can be muted to introduce a new audio track or the original can be left intact.
- Stage the audio and video resources in the Popcorn- Maker editor as layers.
- Introduce events along the timeline of the video.
- Save projects using the “Save’ button.
- Share projects with the link provided by the Popcorn- Maker editor.
TIPS/BEST PRACTICES
- Don’t overwhelm viewers with too much at once; time-based media is more demanding on viewer attention.
- Storyboard events beforehand to save time sequencing them in the timeline.
LEARN MORE AND VIEW EXAMPLES
- https://popcorn.webmaker.org
- https://iconolith.makes.org/popcorn/2a3w
(the example below, a video about Meis Van Der Rohe’s Tugendhat Villa)
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