Brothers Bond Review

I've been watching comics on WebToon for a long time. This is definitely a great work and I enjoy watching it very much. I like the color transition of the comic, while you scrolling down, audiences and easily get into the world the author depicts. The style of the comic is also great, you can find Japanese elements though the texture, and drawing of the comic.

The most interesting thing is the combination of music, I really enjoy some of the chapters that produce great music as background, which really improve the whole experiences of watching the comic. I've been watching few more comics that also add music element. I think music is for sure a great way to make the comic more engaging. The only problem is that, while I am scrolling the comic, sometimes you can hear music and sometimes you don't have music. The transition of music is very tricky because each audience have different reading pace. Sometime, I expect music but the comic does not provide it. Beside that, I also remember one scene, the author actually add motion picture, which is great, the still image started moving. I was very surprised so that I go back and check for several times. But that seem to be the only motion picture, I really expect they will make more of that.

Overall all this is a great comic, I love the concept and love to see the main character to grow.

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360-Video Review

The three videos I chose to watch are Scenes of Destruction in Florida's Panhandle, Speed Down the Luge Course in 360, and The Land of Salt and Fire.

Hurricane Micheal did severe damage in Mexico Beach. I watched a couple of news from traditional format video and had seen the house that is crashed, the damaged street. The 360-video serves the same purpose of conveying the idea of a natural disaster. What is even better is that while I was moving my phone, I interact with the scene much more. When I turn my phone, I accidentally encounter with the woman who passes by. Even though I am not in that scene, the idea of giving the audience more control over what we want to see makes the whole scene more vivid. As an audience, we transit from passive watching to active searching for what we want to look.

The second one is about the experience of speeding down. In the traditional format, we might not about to see what is like behind racer's helmet camera so that we will only experience the feeling of going down. However, in the 360-format, when I turn my phone to back, I feel an opposite feeling of going up. Also when I turn my phone around, I somehow had an illusion that I am the racer. The whole feeling becomes more real and exciting than watching it on the traditional format.

The last one is the most interesting one, and I like it very much. There is a voice over who tells your story and introduce you to the whole set. The scene is set up in the hottest place on Earth. Follow the guidance of voice you start to understand what you are watching. The feeling is very like when you go to a museum, and you have a device you can carry on to introduce you each artwork. You follow the voice, but your eyes are free to move. When you turn your phone, you may accidentally see the camels that walk in a line, or suddenly see a man who is working on the ground, you are surprised when you are watching. Also, the film show text in an unconventional way, the text is set within the landscape with distance, rather than appears below as subtitle. The traditional format has less capability to interact text with space.

It is not my first time see 360-video like this before I used VR that have a similar function. But when you only use your phone to watch a 360-video is a whole new experience, I think this may mark a possibility for future video's tread--to be more engaging and interactive.