interactive conversations

image showing me and kyle talking on msn and xbox live.

The internet offers many diifferent ways to communicate from video calling on msn or simply text conversations, along with social network sites  such as facebook and myspace allowing people to express their opinions and views to others while also being able to communicate with others.

The internet has become a very social place over the past few years most likely due to the fact that the number of internet users has increased and there is more demand for social networks ect. Instead of the old fashioned blog days.

companies like skype have found gaps in the market by providing users with ways to phone land lines and mobiles through the internet aswell as calling other skype users.

picture showing me emailing kyle.

facebook or twitter

although im not a big fan of spending loads of time on social networks (facebook being the only i ever signed up to) im going to create a twitter account to see what all the fuss is about.

GL Basic

although i had already started on a project i decided to change it from a shoot em up game into a music remix application as i felt more intrested in doing this as it was unique to what everyone else was doing.

resubmitting

im currently trying to get all work up to pass and above standard fociusing mainly on the business assignments at the moment.

interactive youtube video

after refilming all parts of the video we are now finishing off the pre production video.

we've already done are pitch and completed a research log at the moment im currently working on the 1500 word 'development of video technology'

Interactive Ethics - Copyright laws

Copyright is a right given to any product you create which copyrights it in your name instantly when you finish working on it. the law protects your product, or work being copied or plagiarized by others without your prior consent, the law still protects your products for up to 70 years after your death.

There are three main moral rights of the copy right laws, these are the right of attribution which means creator of a work has the right to be identified as such.

The right of integrity which means the owners work may not be altered or changed without consent.

The false attribution rule means no one can create a copyright product and attribute it to you.

Although prior to the internet days the copyright law was rarely needed to be enforced as copying books and other media products took so long it wasn’t worth doing.

However online movies and other products can be downloaded in a matter of minutes meaning a lot of products are being stolen.

Some people are against the copyright laws claiming that you can’t own culture and that people should be allowed to use other peoples products.

The Creative Commons (CC) is an organisation dedicated to pointing out which products have been given prior consent to be used by others for certain purposes which the original owner of the product has licensed it for, for example one owner may allow his work to be used for education purposes using (CC) while another may allow anyone to edit their work and do as they please.

vector and bitmap images

vector and bitmap images

A bitmap, raster or pixmap, as they are known, is an image that is made up of pixels each coloured seperately to show the image in a detailed form, with more pixels providing more detail, although the detail of bitmap images means they have large file sizes which take longer to load they are rarely used for flash games however because of detail they are normally used on webpages.
one problem with bitmap images is resizinging them larger as it strectches the pixels and quality is lost as the individual dots become visible. the average computer screen moniter has roughly 70-80 pixels per a squared cm of the screen.

below is a vector image which has been magnifyed to show the pixels.



there are alot of different types of bitmap file formats such as jpeg, png, gif, bmp and psd and so on.
in photography digital camera or any device with a camera can take images and normally save them as a jpeg file which is the most common type of bitmap file on the internet.

a vector image is an image not made up of individual pixels instead they are made up of complete shapes and curves, their quality tends to be lower than bitmap images although they are faster to load which makes them ideal for flash games. They use mathematical formulas to work out what they will appear as on the screen,
because of this and the fact that they dont use pixels they can be resized without losing quality, due to this great advantage companies, for example, nikie whose logo is a tick, use vector images for their logos as they can be resized for poster print or for business card sizes without having to create each indiviudal logo at that size which would cost the companies more.
The advantage of not having individual pixels is smaller file sizes which load faster.

Gamers who play call of duty black ops will have noticed that when creating your playercard call sign you use vector images layered upon eachother to create the image you want.

it is possible to convert bitmap images into vector by using programs such as adobe illustrator by using the rastorise effect and the image will be converted from a bitmap into a vector, although some minor details may be lost the image will look the same if not better.