Red Bee Media has created a personalised Facebook app to drive viewers to season two of The Walking Dead on FOX.
The app, aimed at the Facebook fans of the show, as well as family and friends, focusses on a POV film.
The film looks at what it is like to be 'left behind' by the walking dead, and uses Facebook Connect and users' webcams to create a personalised experience. The app goes live early this month.
The edit decision list (EDL) system allows you to automatically skip or mute sections of videos during playback, based on a movie specific EDL configuration file.
This is useful for those who may want to watch a film in "family-friendly" mode. You can cut out any violence, profanity, Jar-Jar Binks .. from a movie according to your own personal preferences. Aside from this, there are other uses, like automatically skipping over commercials in video files you watch.
The EDL file format is pretty bare-bones. There is one command per line that indicates what to do (skip/mute) and when to do it (using pts in seconds).
All life could be here, in a snapshot of this very moment. But as quickly as the film fades, the moment is lost. Play it again, and new recordings are collected from the world's online archive. What follows has the potential to fascinate, or could well be routine - but each time is different."
Kinoautomat (1967) was the world's first interactive movie, conceived by Radúz Činčera for the Czechoslovak Pavilion at Expo 67 in Montreal.
At nine points during the film the action stops, and a moderator appears on stage to ask the audience to choose between two scenes; following an audience vote, the chosen scene is played.