Festival2012/Submit/Using Linklib to Author Second Screen Video
- Title of session: Using Linklib to Author Second Screen Video
- Your name and affiliation: Simon Klose, WebFWD participant
- Session format: Learning Lab
- What will your session or activity allow people to make, learn or do?
People will learn how to send time synched links from online videos to a smartphone or tablet.
Do you google films and TV-shows while you watch them? Do you think Youtube's popup annotations in the middle of a video are distracting? Linklib lets filmmakers, filmfans, journalists and bloggers send time synched links from a full screen video directly to their audiences' phones.
Instead of googling an actor, fact checking an election video or feverishly trying to find the soundtrack to that TV-serie, just pick up the phone and the information is right there.
It's fun, easy and will change how you watch video forever.
- How do you see that working?
After a demo of the open meta data library "Linklib.org" everyone gets to add links to their favorite (or most hated) videos and send them to a second screen.
Do you want to fill your favorite Game of Thrones episode with geeky references? Are you a Libiyan democracy activist that needs to send revolutionary skill sets from your video blog? Do you want to add mashups and remixes to that banging new Outkast music video? Or just throw in a bunch of Wikipedia explanations to all those strange facts in your favorite TED-talk?
Linklib let's you add Stephen Colbert's truthiness to a Mitt Romney campaign video or deleted scenes to your documentary film without ruining the traditional viewing experience.
- How will you deal with 5, 15, 50 participants?
The more participants the more we learn together! Authoring links into video is something everyone can do. No need to divide into groups, bring your laptop and get dirty!
- How long within your session before someone else can teach this?
After playing around with Linklib for 30 min people will be able to teach how to do it.
- What do you see as outcomes after the festival?
The purpose of the session is to supply a grass roots community with a free tool to gather mankind's collective movie commentary into one open, smiling library.
We hope that the outcome after the festival is that people start teaching other people how to author content in Linklib.
We also plan to have a lot of fun while doing this ;)
