W8 - MOTION AND INFO MEDIA

• Motion media


  A visual media that gives the appearance of a movement. It can be a collection of graphics, footage, or videos. It is combined with audio, text, or interactive content to create multimedia
• 2 forms of motion media

  • Informal - created by individuals often for personal use
  • Formal - created by professionals who follow industry standards in creating, editing, and producing motion media
• Animation


  Animated GIFs (Graphic Interchange Format), Flash shockwave, Dynamic HTML
• Video formats/video codec 


  mp4, divx, mog, 3gp, avi, mkv, ETC.
• Elements of motion media

  Speed, timing, direction, transitions, sound and color, blurring
• Speed


  To intensify emotions
• Timing


  Clarifies or intensifies the message or emotion
• Direction


  To indicate movement
• Transitions


  To switch between clips or scenes
• Sound and color


  Enhances the meaning of the motion or message
• Blurring


  To give emphasis, illusion, censorship
• Credibility of motion media

  • Source
  • Validity of Information
  • Relationship of the creator to the event
• Technical methods to detect fake videos

  1. Smoothness - open detected when movements are not smooth
  2. Scale and size - refers how the size of the object in reference to one another are near the real thing
  3. Lighting coverage - one way to detect lighting matches is to look at the shadows
• Limitations of motion media


  1. Compared to other forms of visual media the viewer cannot always interrupt the presentation
  2. It is often times more costly than other forms of media
  3. Other data may be presented best using still images and it is subject to misinterpretation
• Advantages of motion media


  1. It captures motion in a manner that can be viewed repeatedly. It can show processes in detail and in sequence
  2. It enables learning with emotions
  3. It can cut across different cultures and groups, it allows scenes, history, events and phenomenon to be recreated.