BBC Object based media and Perceptive media experiences, discussed in Liverpool's FACT and LJMU

1. https://www.flickr.com/photos/nickpiggott/5212959770
Objects, responsive and perceptive media
Ian Forrester
Senior Firestarter, BBC R&D
@cubicgarden

2. Object based media
http://thenextweb.com/media/2016/03/09/bbc-r-and-d-object-based-media/

3. Media + Metadata = Objects
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nickpiggott/5212959770
The idea behind ‘object-based’ media is that you take all the
assets for a given TV or radio show – the video clips, the
accompanying audio, any music soundtrack, and extras like
subtitles and sign language translations
wrap it up in useful metadata and then use software to ‘remix’
it as needed

4. Media

5. Metadata

6. Media + Metadata

7. The objects make the story

8. Squeezebox
http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/projects/squeezebox

9. Storytelling timeline
http://www.flickr.com/photos/feuilllu/302001867/

10. http://www.flickr.com/photos/smcgee/234278571
Oral storytelling
http://www.flickr.com/photos/smcgee/234278571

11. Engaging, participatory, immersive..
http://www.flickr.com/photos/smcgee/234278571

12. Storytelling with variables

13. Context, location, environment...
https://www.flickr.com/photos/haaijk/14196995087

14. Narrative on Rails
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ag2r/4437697015

15. Media with more potential
Wired magazine Top trends for 2013

16. Perceptive Media “Breaking Out”
http://www.futurebroadcasts.com

17. Responsive Radio
http://www.bbc.co.uk/taster/projects/responsive-radio

18. Forecaster

19. Perceptive drama
http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/projects/visual-perceptive-media

20. Scalable experiences (50000+)

21. How does it work?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXKu-b4Afh4

22. Variations not versions
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0816692/ Interstellar – © 2014 – Paramount Pictures

23. http://www.flickr.com/photos/d_lee/2394548742
It’s the small things

24. Manipulation of audiences feelings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thNvpubJir8

25. Film has been doing this for decades
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2096673// Inside Out – © 2015 - Disney

26. Memorable narratives experiences
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0259711/ Vanilla Sky – © 2001 – Paramount Pictures

27. Highly relevant
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114369/ Se7en – © 1995 - New Line Cinema

28. Relevance
https://www.flickr.com/photos/leweb3/6471629995
It will be very hard for people to
watch or consume something
that has not in some sense been
tailored for them
- Eric Schmidt, Google

29. Some media reaction
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3350076/BBC-experimenting-smart-shows-adapt-personality-male-female.html

30. Data ethics research
https://www.flickr.com/photos/birgerking/5137440872
Privacy
Security
Ownership
Identity
Data management

31. Data ethics research
Trust is the foundation of the BBC:
we are independent, impartial and honest
https://www.flickr.com/photos/noodlepie/7256071790

32. Ethics of personal data in the era of QS and IOT
http://cubicgarden.com/2016/03/18/bbc-rd-ethics-of-data-videos-on-youtube/

33. How people understand personal data and trust
https://www.flickr.com/photos/cjc/3140642627

34. Understanding new models for data negotiation
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dodnewsfeatures/28742900754

35. Making data visual, understandable & actionable

36. No more shared experiences?

37. This shared experience?
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2013/dec/16/tv-viewing-christmas-netflix-on-demand

38. A different shared experience
https://www.flickr.com/photos/cjc/3140642627

39. Context aware media

40. Broadcasting through objects
http://kodi.wiki/view/NFO_files/Movies

41. The Internet of things

42. Perceptive Radio

43. Hyper reality media experiences
www.imdb.com/title/tt0119174/ - The Game (1997)

44. Devices working alongside the media
https://www.flickr.com/photos/schoschie/4294160420

45. Context is king

46. Hyper reality media experiences

47. Hyper reality media nightmares

48. Media which bends to your context

49. New types of learning experiences

50. Cook Along Learning Experience
http://www.bbc.co.uk/taster/projects/cook-along-kitchen-

51. Build experiences like these
https://github.com/bbc/VideoContext

52. Storytelling always was/is participatory

53. Thank you for listening… questions?
Ian Forrester
Senior Firestarter, BBC R&D North
@cubicgarden ian.forrester@bbc.co.uk