Interactive media products example

1- Video Games

Video games are a type of interactive media. Players use controllers to respond to visual and sound cues on the screen that are generated by a computer program. Although gamers a single category the break off into multiples as you have hundreds of genres of games such as: Action games, Action-adventure games, Adventure games, Role-playing games, Simulation games, Strategy games, Sports games, Puzzle games. Minecraft is a sandbox videogame where you can do what you want, Minecraft is on multiple platforms such as PC, Console and mobile. most of the Minecraft games on all platforms are usually 1gb this is rather small for a video game but with this small size only includes the game the more you play this video game the bigger it gets this is because you create world which costs you more storage space. 

The menu in Minecraft is quiet a good game for accessibility as it has text to speech to help people understand how to play for those with visual impairments and because Minecraft is such a blocky game people visual impairments will be able to recognise certain aspects as they aren't in high quality and that what make Minecraft such an accessible game as well as the fact that it is a sandbox game meaning you can do what ever you want.

Purpose- The main purpose of this video game is to entertain the player and help explore his/her creative side. 

Minecraft includes an Accessibility Menu in Settings for easy access to accessibility settings. To view the Accessibility Menu, select Settings from the main menu and the Accessibility Menu and options are displayed by default.

Minecrafts storage size increases while you play and make progress on your worlds also if you download stuff like resource packs and mods the file size gets bigger and bigger. 

2- Social media 

Social media is interactive because users connect to other people, Users can upload photos or videos onto social media apps and this will be shared with people that follow or view their account. Social media comes in different forms such as Instagram or Tik Tok, two very big social platforms but are very different to each other as Tik Tok you upload short videos two which will either be funny or be related to things you like. Instagram you are more likely to use to message friends or family and upload photos and videos and you can share photos and tag people that are in them, Instagram is also frequently used for adverts and to show off brands as big brands make and instagram account to show users about their products and can buy ads on the platform to help them grow. 

An example includes snapchat menu screen on Snapchat there are multiple areas such as the friends area text chat and snap maps. on the main area of snapchat it is divided into three bits Friends, subscriptions and discovery this make it look similar to a magazine and how it is separated into different compartments. Snapchat is also different sizes on different OS's such on apple it is 259.1mb and android 74.13mb for IOS the app is larger we can assume this is because of a rule apple made or that it is just a lot harder to compress an app to the small size that android have for IOS.

Snapchat is quiet accessible as it uses gestures to work as well as buttons for example snapchat allows you take pictures with the volume buttons It also allows you to switch the camera by doubled tapping the screen. the way to access the messaging area you swipe left and to go to the discovery page you swipe right and to search for friends you swipe up and this is very beneficial to people who have limited motor capabilities as you don't need to be precise to access something. to make things even easier snapchat have a speech to text function and even have a voice message function.

Purpose- The main purpose of social media apps is to make people virtually connect with each other and because of social media celebrities can now connect                          with their fans and have conversation with their fans and gather their feedback on their posts and uploads.

3- Interactive advertising 

Interactive advertising is used a lot lately as people who are into the product being advertise are more likely to purchase after they've been part of a interactive advert and have partly interacted with the product. Resident evil 2 remake made an interactive advert when as the advert ended on a YouTube private video there would be two ads on screen where the user picked which route the user wanted to go as the first choice was to decide which character the user would like to be and the following 

YouTube is accessible mainly for people with hearing difficulties for example with YouTube if you hover over a video it shows you a preview it. also YouTube really easy to understand as you can search for a certain video or content creators which makes it easy to navigate you can also go on a recommendation page which it good as it reduces searching and lets you watch want you want. Youtube has a benefit of allowing subtitles for any language which is good because if you are deaf you will be able to read the commentary and for people who can't read they can use a speech to text function to search for the videos they want.

In conclusion i would say that for people with typing difficulties it is better to use voice search as a means of locating videos but for the people who don't have said difficulties i would recommend the regular search bar this is because voice search can some time misshear you and noy search for what you want.

decisions led to things that happened in the actual game. Interactive advertising is a great way to sell the game and communicate with the audience. The HTML size of Youtube is 8.11MB which is really big as there are multiple videos on the homepage the reason this is quiet a lot is because it isn't storage space it uses 8mb from your internet connection .

Purpose: The main purpose of interactive adverts is to attract the audience as it'll make them more invested into the product this is because they are interacting with the advert in front of them.

4- User Generated Content  (UGC)

UGC is interactive as people upload the photos, drawings, reviews or clips online to Instagram, Facebook etc. Fans of celebrities often make drawings to post online and some fans make clips and edits of celebrities to post online which will contain photos and short videos of them and if its of a musician they will often have their music in the background with reverb and the photos and videos will match the song to where bass happens and where the piano plays.  

The file size for the Instagram app is 182.3mb for IOS which really isn't a lot as most modern phones entry phones have 64gb as their base model. 

Purpose: The main purposes of UGC is so that celebrities can connect with their fans and see the conent they have created such as videos, short films or fan art.

Instagram has great accessibilty as if you have trouble using your hands for example, Instagram have made it where you can swipe to get to certain parts of the app such as the in app camera and the direct message catalogue.

Insatagram allow you to save videos and photos for you to view at future dates.

5- Netflix

Netflix's homepage is interactive as people have the choice of choosing what to watch they also get recommendations off of what they have previously watched also when you hover over a show it will show a preview of the show that will hook some people in to watching that specific show.

The html size of Netflix is 1.35mb 

Netflix uses the automatic previews to get peoples attention so that they will click that show as they will use a certain part of a show to get someone interested for example in the netflix show 'Colin in black and white' they use a controversial scene of a young black man being pulled over in America they do this to divert the audiences attention to the screen compellling them to click on the show and watch it all.

 

For accessabilty Netflix Translate nearly all there shows into different languages so if there is a language barrier for someone they can still enjoy a show and they also include sub-titles in all their shows and films and this is beneficial to people who are deaf.