Thanks to everyone who attended the Tinnovation: Green Screen Special last month. With over 30 participants the session was our most successful to date. Particular thanks to the guys at Media Junction for inviting us and supplying beer!
For those of you that didn't make it down the session started with an introduction to Tinnovation and background to what we do and why we do it. After room introductions we moved on to a demo of an Air application built by Tinnovator Jason to illustrate what we were able to do with the green screen studio in just a few hours of development. In essence we had built a desktop application that pulled a live video feed with a matte to give the illusion that the subject was walking/performing on the the computer' s desktop.
Our opening idea was to distribute a desktop widget of a Media Junction client such as comedian Harry Hill with live broadcasts at predetermined intervals. For example, during the week, pre-recorded content would play of Harry Hill, then once a month Harry could broadcast live from the green screen studio and answer fans questions via Twitter live to desktops across the country.
The session was then opened up to the floor as the group was split into teams and a time limit was set for ideas development.
After an extended breakout session that included some live interaction with the green screen facilities the teams returned to the floor with some cracking ideas for discussion.
In no particular order these included:
Desktop catwalk show - Fashion houses could shoot their catwalk shows in the green screen facility and distribute via a desktop widget
Historical cam - Attend any moment in history, Forest Gump-style, by superimposing yourself on to stock footage whilst a live filter grades your footage to match the clip
Signing - For hard of hearing web users, a signing feed could be delivered direct to desktop
Virtual flowers - Flowers delivered to your desktop
Virtual preachers - Have the pontiff on your desktop
Charades - Compete with friends desktop to desktop
Aspirational moments in time with augmented reality - Hold the FA Cup with your team
Virtual band - More AR, with footage of band members shot individually on green screen, print marks could be disributed allowing the user to live mix the preformance on their actual desktop!
Virtual head on body app - Be who you wanna be!
Thru-tube - Interesting concept around developing an Air app that can display all sorts of content, like the ideas above, but one "player" to display all rather than downloading multiple apps
Sooo... Some great ideas, the last 20 minutes of the session were spent discussing which could feasibly be developed for any of our clients, to find out the answer to that you better watch this space!
To participate in a future Tinnovation session email tim@thetin.net
