Hyperlink Cinema

'Hyperlink Cinema' is a conceptual new-media object, experimenting with the creation and manipulation of narrative within modern cinema.

By empowering the user with the freedom to explore, we provide them with powerful narrative creation and observation techniques. The lack of traditional linear cinema constraints helps create an intimate experience of consuming modern media.

By using the web as a database, the user is able to browse numerous nodes based on a series of interconnected relationships. After initial interrogation, we are provided with a canvas of loosely related new-media objects, consisting of both still image and video. Free-flowing exploration of these assets is encouraged by interacting with the keyboard and mouse.

At any given point in time, no single asset will maintain the user's full attention. Transparency and audio levels of media assets respond to users movements within a 3D space. By positioning themselves at different points within the space, the user is able to juxtapose elements with great freedom, allowing them to discover meta-information between elements that would not be present in a singular context.

A click on an individual media asset will signal a strong interest of the subject. All other media on-screen is quickly faded and replaced with a new generation of media objects, based on the associated meta-data of the central object (genetic mutation). The user may continue to watch their current selection, or move around the space to explore other related media-objects within their current generation.

At any point in time, the user may return to a previous node of thought by simply clicking on the associated media object.

Demo Video 1 - Demo Video 2

(Work in progress; More to follow)
March 2008