Interactive Film and Cinema

What do you understand by the above title?

 Interactive cinema is a hybrid between participation and viewing, giving the player - or viewer, as it were - a strong amount of control in the characters' decisions. (wikipedia)

In my views, interactive film means that audience to product film, audience join in all of film processing like script, character, pro, shooting skill and so on. this kind of film has publish for some years, now, the interactive skills is better than before.

 What is the new experience that is available to the audience?
traditional filmit is created by some directors, they decide the script, storyline, characters, pro and so on, audience just buy ticket and watch film.

interactive filmaudience not just buy ticket and watch film. they can play director to change film. for example, some audiences like humor, however, the film is sad, so they can say stop and change the storyline. it is a great way to show audience's emotion.

 What examples of practice can you find of the above?

Last Call

character use phone to interact with audience, question them like go up or go down. nobody know what is the end.
for audience, they can change the film so they don;t feel boring. 

 What can we expect in future? 

when audience want to watch film, they don't need go to cinema, they can watch film at home, different audience can produce different film.

Do you think, from your research, it will become important or stay a ‘niche’ experience?

i think interactive film will be better in the future, and more and more audience join it.


Interactive cinema (2015) in Wikipedia. Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive_cinema (Accessed: 9 December 2015).

Powerflasher Agency (2010) 13TH STREET „Last call - the first interactive movie (software by Powerflasher). Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe9CiKnrS1w (Accessed: 29 November 2015）