Remixing tv material live

3 Mar 2010 by céline

“Watch and remix TV live” came to me in 2007, as I was watching lots of TV on mute and making stories as people would flip the channels. The game involved reacting fast, creative in making up scenarios, and great sense of humor. It made sense too, at the time, to offer people with a sort of easy console, plug and play style, to remix, save and share. Record and remix TV as you are watching it (adaptable to whichever device you are using to watch and remix). Actions involved: distort, voice over, manipulate colors, slow motion/speed up, add your sound track and more. This idea was illustrated and shown at several conferences/talks/pecha kucha. At the Miptv Millia in 08, as a finalist in the category of New iptv concepts for the BBC, BBC loved the idea! They have lots of material in their archives they want people to play with. Copy right issues aside, I think this game saw the light of day with opencinema.org, BBC was not ready for this type of free for all distorting and sharing content.

Plug it onto online TV, traditional TV, and replay all the content you can eat, mash it up, remix, recycle, create new material that other would also remix. As a user experience designer, I have thought of many interfaces to make the process as easy as dialing a phone number. So that regular people with no particular skills in video editing could take control of the content and play with it generating new messages. Make it easy and fun for people to play seamlessly. There is always room for innovation, even if as of today, many tools exist out there to remix content for free, there hasn’t been a specific way to remix live what you’re watching.
Some drawings..