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ION LAUNCHES JUMP:
THE DAVID BOWIE INTERACTIVE CD-ROM
(press release)
World's First Interactive Music Video Experience
JUMP: The David Bowie Interactive CD-ROM allows users to
passively view or proactively create their own music videos based
on David Bowie's hit single "Jump They Say" from his Black Tie,
White Noise album. The product offers a virtual Bowie environment
in which users can watch clips from favorite Bowie videos and flip
through archive photos and interviews. But the main attraction is
the interactive video studio, in which players can "cut" their own
personalized video to the music.
The JUMP interactive video studio presents the user with five
sources of raw video footage, some never before seen by the public.
Utilizing ION's groundbreaking switcher, players can edit these
clips together into one seamless, custom creation; each session is
a chance to make an entirely new video. Players can even share
their creations with anyone who has the title.
"For the first time, you don't just get to play a new music
video, you get to play with it," explains Ann Greenberg, who along
with John Greenberg, Ty Roberts and Lou Beach founded ION earlier
this year. "Music-driven products are leading the way in the
digital entertainment revolution. But most interactive music
systems currently available merely give the user information about
the artists. ION products move beyond the cerebral to the visceral,
allowing the user to express their own vision. In this sense, they
are profoundly different from anything that's come before."
Adds Ty Roberts: "This is the future of the record album. In
a few years, you'll be disappointed if there is no interactivity
on the disc you get from your favorite artist. It fulfills every
rock fan's ultimate fantasy: to get in on the thrill of creation."
To develop state-of-the-art technology to forge this
unprecedented visual experience, ION first compiled footage from
more than nine hours of video from the original shoot. Then they
simulated an environment that mirrors the stark, high-style milieu
of the Bowie video. Finally, ION created an interface that is easy
enough to let anyone become an amateur video-maker.
Other features of JUMP: The David Bowie Interactive CD-ROM
include:
Real-time video editing with a click of a button,
Five simultaneous QuickTime video channels,
A behind-the-scenes look at the creation of the "Jump They
Say" video,
An interactive environment that explores Bowie's creative
world,
Four complete music videos included in QuickTime format.
JUMP: The David Bowie Interactive CD-ROM requires a color
Macintosh running System 7 with five megabytes of RAM, a CD-ROM and
other interactive platforms. Prototypical of a new entrepreneurial
spirit, ION remains fiercely independent in practice but recently
signed a historic multi-million-dollar deal with Bertelsmann Music
Group (BMG), one of the world's largest media conglomerates, to
develop product and create the first interactive music label. With
JUMP, ION has leaped into the vanguard of young entrepreneurs
shaping the content that will make the future of digital highways,
interactive television networks, and two-way entertainment a
viable, creative reality.
ION has offices in Northern and Southern California. The
company's main headquarters are located at 11845 West Olympic
Blvd., Suite 1050, Los Angeles, CA 90064, (310) 312-8060.