For that week’s workshop, I decided to attend the media manipulation workshop. We needed to manipulate any video we wanted like a music video or a trailer etc. I finally settled with the trailer from “Friends”. So, I went on to download a trailer I had found online. To manipulate it, I decided to pixelate the video. I thought this was going to be funny, especially since Friends is such a funny TV SHOW. To add the mapping into the equation, I had the speed of the video change as your mouse went from left to right while on top of the screen. This was done through a “float function”.
- I got my mp4: myMovie = new Movie(this, “friends.mp4”);
then I used a loop
2. myMovie.play();
myMovie.loop();
To pixelate the video I used: fill( myMovie.pixels[a] );
For my project, we needed to include media manipulation because images would change the speed in which they appear as part of the “game”. Also, we were going to have music on each level of the game. It was thus important for me to attend this workshop.