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Desktop Alias. (web).(Digital Bucket's screen saver)(Brief Article)
Each Sunday millions of people tune in to the hit television drama Alias to watch the young, daring double agent Sydney Bristow as she outwits and outfights enemies, including the very people she works for at the rogue spy organization SD-6. Now, devoted Alias viewers can relive highlights from the show a new kind of digital video-based screen saver.
The Windows- and Mac-compatible imagery can be downloaded free at www.abc.abcnews.go. com/primetime/alias/downloads/ciadownloads.html.
Users can choose between a light version, which is a standard slide show-style offering, and a robust version, which pushes the boundaries of traditional screen savers by incorporating actual video from the television series. Both were created by Digital Bucket, a creative branch of the Metropolitan Hodder Group that specializes in interactive and emerging media development.
According to Eric Long, Digital Bucket's IT director, the video-based screen saver starts as a storyboard that springs to life with animated transitions from one video segment to another. To create the desktop sequence, the team first digitized video clips from the TV series and converted them ...
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