http://www.beonlineb.com/
To interact with this website the user must move the mouse around on their computer to make the hands of the singer move around, or his whole head to disappear, bar his eyes. The background of the webpage is plain black and the only visible parts of the singer are his two hands and his head. The entire video is in a low saturated colour balance; this blends with the slow tone of the song.
http://www.sprawl2.com/
To interact on this webpage, you have to either physically move around, or click your mouse on the video. The user has the ability to physically move around because the webpage can be linked up to a webcam/microphone device; the device can either be in-built, or detached from the computer.
The video itself features multiple characters dancing in different locations and clothing; the beat of the dancing always matches the tempo of the song and style of music on each verse/chorus/instrumental. The background of the webpage is the same as the previous webpage, plain black with the focal point directly on the video and characters. This website is different to any other music video as the characters only dance if the user clicks or moves around, if the user just stands still then multiple gif-style images play over and over.
http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/
This website was the strangest one of all. The way the user interacts with the webpage is by entering an address of the place they grew up in; new windows open and show a Google Map Street View and aerial view of the chosen address. New windows close and open by themselves as the runner goes further and further down the street, the runner is also visible on the aerial view as if he is actually there, in the town.
The webpage then asks you to write a letter to the 'old you that used to live there' and the user can type their letter on a separate window; birds then fly across the letter into the next window which is an aerial view of the chosen address. The website itself can become personal if the address entered into the webpage is found by Google; I think the postmodern aspect of this is that you can interact with the music video by adding a personal edge, this is completely different to all other music videos and ignores traditional music video conventions.
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