Display buttons during playback to allow the user to influence the story.
Experience
The ultimate combination of film and game.
Totally cinematic
Seamless playback
CtrlMovie is a novel interactive movie format. It gives filmmakers the tools to tell multi-optional stories in a truly cinematic way. The audience gets to make decisions on behalf of the main character and is thrilled to see the consequences of their choices unfold on screen seamlessly without a noticeable gap or edit.
The film never stops. No decision is still an action. The viewers are under the same time pressure as the protagonist, together as a group of people in theatres, or individually on an iPad.
Demo video
Get a feel for the CtrlMovie experience.
«Late Shift» is the first feature-length production in the novel interactive movie format CtrlMovie. «Late Shift» is now available on the Apple App Store, on AppleTV and launches across selected cinemas in Spring 2016.
Please find more information here.
Platforms
CtrlMovie can be featured on various platforms.
Cinema
CtrlMovies can be presented in movie theatres for a collective audience-collaborative experience. Let the cinema audience decide! The audience’s smart devices, the CtrlMovie app and a local WiFi enable decisions based on majority votes.
Home Entertainment
For home entertainment, CtrlMovies can be distributed on AppleTV, which supports both single and multiplayer modes. Further PS4, Xbox One and Steam (PC and Mac) are supported distribution channels.
Mobile
CtrlMovie is also available on iOS. To meet the mobile user’s consumption habits, your movie comes in chapter-like episodes.
Support for Android based devices will be added shortly.
Linear version
Don’t forget: you can always create a conventional linear version of your CtrlMovie. Simply stick to one of the many possible storylines and you’re ready for all conventional distribution channels, be it cinema, TV, VoD or DVD.
Features
What CtrlMovie allows you to do.
Buttons
Dynamic Jump Actions
Flexibly jump between segments – at an exact timecode, in a time frame or triggered by user actions.
Swipe Mode
Allow users to look around in the film by panning the image with swipe gestures.
Animated Mask
Make objects in the film tappable with unlimited numbers of animated masks.
Variables
Store user decisions in variables to retrieve them later for a delayed effect on the story.
Expressions
Use short java scripts to evaluate former actions of the user and to influence the storyline.
Separate Audio
Add multiple audio tracks independent from the video segments and jump actions.
Dynamic Overlays
Use the advantage of displaying browser windows and other interactive elements on top of the movie during playback.
Subtitles
Easily add subtitles to support a wider audience.
Filmmakers
A format from filmmakers for filmmakers.
CtrlMovie is a toolset for professional filmmakers (authors, directors, producers), who are fascinated by multi-branched storytelling. It enables them to create and distribute participative films for theatrical release as well as home and mobile entertainment.
For licensing enquiries please use the contact form below.
About
Filmmakers and entrepreneurs by passion.
CtrlMovie is driven by people with a passion for filmmaking and technology. They have their backgrounds in production, directing, post-production, marketing and of course software development.
CtrlMovie AG was founded in the beginning of 2014 with the purpose of creating a standard for participative filmed entertainment – from the biggest to the smallest screens alike.
Tobias Weber
Founding Partner
Ivo Braunschweiler
Founding Partner
Chady Mattar
Partner
Scott C. Silver
Partner
Martin Hering
CTO
Kurban Kassam
Associate Producer
Marko Živanović
Senior Full-Stack Developer
Peter Goldberg
Senior Software Developer