Ben Scott Arts - Art/design/video

Interactive DVD for Islington Council Health Campaign.

A DVD to include more information than a VHS or website alone could provide whilst at the same time remaining accessible to the largest possible audience.

Description:

• Multilanguage e.g. subtitles, language menu setup
• Intelligent random script customised to 4 tracks
• Encoding and bit budgeting for all video and audio assets
• Creation of custom buttons and menus
• Set backs to deadline and issues around badly planned edits. Reedits and changing boundaries of client’s brief could have been avoided through better initial planning/contracts and improved interactive media knowledge of the various editors.
• Linking of large disk with many tracks, assets, scripts, menu buttons, timeout actions.
• Creation of subtitles using a program called www.stledit.com
• Testing of disk and various stages of sign off from the client
• Duplication of a few thousand DVDs
• Interactive project planning and DVD storyboarding
• Technical consultant for all DVD authoring features 

Hardware/software used:

• Apple Mac G5 Dual 2.0 GHz
• DVD duplicator and printer
• DVD Studio Pro 3
• Final Cut Pro HD
• Photoshop
• Illustrator
• Text edit
• STL edit

People involved/Organisation:

Islington Health Authority

Date:

October 2004 – July 2005