tools for collaborative video-editing
This strand of the Experimental productions has been experimenting and producing tools and prototypes for collaborative video-editing. Video has been a central element in the productions of the project and focus has been on researching social uses of audiovisual media. We have developed tools which could support more casual and diverse uses of video and empower people with software.
co-edit tools
Greetings from Linz
In the Ars Electronica'06 Campus exhibition of Media Lab, we presented a prototype of our collaborative video authoring and sharing application, using it to explore some primitive practices of collaborative video editing. A set of Nokia N80 cameraphones recorded video clips from around the festival area and events which were given as raw material for collective editing. People were then able to create meaningful smaller clips out of the material and arrange them in a timeline and send a link to the final edit to an e-mail address. A playful user-interface was created to be a bit more appealing to the average media art festival participant than a simple web-page would be.
Ars Electronica'06 Campus exhibition site »
Snowboarders
When creating new media services, it is useful to map existing communities that are related to the phenomenon. One interesting subculture related to collaborative video creation is skateboarding where kids have been documenting their hobby and producing rock-video style movies since 80's. We have studied three teenage groups by observing and interviewing them. Through co-design and participatory design process we came up with design proposals and created web-service that enabled editing and sharing of self-made videos. Along co-design process informants participated to the design and creation of the services they might need and use.
Watch a summary video of the co-design process »
VideoClipper
VideoClipper is a variation of the prototypes utilizing the technologies developed in the collaborative video editing projects. With VideoClipper, one can create a hyperlink to a certain part of a video.
Co-edit
We started to form the concept of collaborative video-editing tools, calling the activity co-editing. The idea was to develop simple ideas of video-editing and sharing tools that would allow people to collaborate on-line on sharing and authoring video material. The early explorations started from the ideas of desktop video-editing applications and features of on-line applications were then added and it evolved from that.
mediamorphosis and Media Lab 10-year seminars
The aim was to make the Media Lab's 10th anniversary seminar discussions available on the Internet in an annotated format, almost directly after the discussion had ended. The whole video of the discussion was divided into shorter clips, with each of their content briefly summarized for easy reference. This required transcribers to annotate the discussion as it was broadcast, essentially finishing their work as the discussion closed.
More about the Media Lab 10-year Seminar »
mlab.tv
Mlab.tv was a concept for University of Art and Design Media Lab's own community tv-channel, which can be only watched by the members of the community, and where they can submit their own videos. The purpose of Mlab.tv idea was to increase the awareness of the growing and constantly evolving community, of the actions and doings of groups and individuals inside the community. It offers a communication channel, through which people can communicate to each other, make their work visible and accountable, and also document and archive the events which take place in the community, using the audiovisual medium.
