Lo-fi video prototyping- Netflix edition

This is a quick and short exercise that underwent during the video-prototyping workshop. The brief is to explore free space gestures for controlling Netflix’s functions. We must capture hand and body movements in conjunction with Netflix’s functions in the video. These functions include playing/pausing, skipping an episode, increasing and decreasing volume, as well as muting the volume.

I collaborated on this project with fellow classmates Mounika Damera and Louis Than.

We were only given an hour to complete filming, editing, and exporting the video, so there wasn’t much time for planning and drawing a storyboard. We immediately got to work after forming the idea of including just a hand making hand-gestures and another person actually controlling the computer- a sneaky but handy technique of Wizard-of-Ozzing.

A smart method we did that prevented chaos and delay in the editing process was to delete footage that failed that we weren’t going to use in the actual video immediately after filming. This sped up our process significantly. After compiling all the footage, putting them in order, cropping out any sections from the footages that had accidental dialogue by the team members, and adding an introduction and ending image, voilà, our video was complete, watch it below.

This quick yet straight-foward exercise that quickly introduced us to the concept of lo-fi video prototyping. In addition to the laptop, all we used were hand gestures, and we were able to quickly convey the purpose of the video– free space Netflix using gestures. A more extensive video prototyping exercise will follow along.