Reading the outline for project 3, I noticed an emphasis to direct our experimentations toward future explorations in the project 4 prototype. Not knowing exactly what the 4th project entailed I can only assume it is to create an innovative practice of online video or something along those lines. Conveniently, out of excitement during the project 3 sketching phase, I was struck with an idea to incorporate a new level of interactivity into skate video to create a brand new form of online video practice.

Prototype Idea:

Imagine if every mobile phone user of a particular application had the ability to capture their skateboarding actions and daily journey, which were instantly uploaded to an online database so that a variety of user submissions were organised via a kind of algorithm to create an online video. For example, video submissions could be organised in regards to location, time, genre or some other form of categorisation. This would enable people from all around the globe to interact with each other to create a unique narrative/non-narrative hybrid form in the way the material was structured.

These are just some ideas that I am interested in, however I would imagine that to build something of this complexity ourselves would likely become challenging due to our little experience in/and the scarce availability of the tools and programming required to create such a prototype. Although I am particularly interested in this idea so after disussion with Seth, I realise that it is possible to pursue technically complex prototype ideas by instead creating a prototype with the available tools and services to build something that itself presents the idea and form of the complex idea. This excited me to further pursue notions of skate video interactivity with the inclusion of optimising a variety of online tools and services, which would be more tangible upon reflection of project 3.