Movieoke

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Movieoke(Japanese: ムービー“movie", and オーケストラ ōkesutora, "orchestra") is a form of entertainment in which an amateur actor or actors perform along with a DVD on a computer. The DVD is typically of a well-known movie in which the voice and perhaps camera shot of the original actor in a scene is absent or reduced in volume. Closed Captioning is usually also displayed, sometimes including ON AIR lights synchronized with the actors script lines, on DVD viewing screen to guide the script reading. It is also known as Karamovie. Movieoke is a popular form of entertainment which began in the United States in early 2003, and has since spread to other parts of the world. Movieoke engenders a significant amount of culture specific to its enthusiasts, and this culture, unsurprisingly, varies from country to country.

[edit] Word origin

The Japanese word stems from the words Movie (ムービー) which is Movie, meaning "Movie" and oke which is short for ōkesutora (オーケストラ), meaning "orchestra". The words together make a contraction literally meaning "movie orchestra”. This term used to be slang for media where pre-recorded acting is substituted by a live performance, thus it is written in katakana. The term movieoke can be interpreted as "virtual movie" because one can specify a key to the movie and start acting along without the presence of a camera or crew. In the United States, the word is often pronounced as /muvˈoʊki/, and in Britain /muvˈəʊkɪ/. The Japanese pronunciation is /muvoke/ (These pronunciations are in IPA.)

[edit] History

Karaoke has been a common form of musical entertainment at a dinner or a party in Japan, as in the rest of the world, for a long time. This tradition appeared in the earliest Japanese mythology. Its newest cousin, movieoke, originally started as bar room diversion for patrons. Whereas a projector would be connected to a DVD player and the video image would be cast against a backdrop or screen. Friends of the amateur actor would rapidly mute the voice of actor in the original movie so that it was rendered imperceivable and the amateur actor could recite the lines of the muted actor from the original movie. Many legal issues were and are raised by the display of copyrighted material in a public venue. For private movieoke play there is no legal issues. From the earliest movieoke conception of manual muting sound on a movie media device has undergone technological advances replaced this with DVD playing software. In 2006, KaraMovie Inc. introduced the MoXie Player that allowed provided the means to receive movieoke content via the internet. Its catalog of movies is limited, but the advantage of continuous updates and the movieoke software saw it gradually replace traditional methods of play. Movieoke software connected via internet links to provide instant high-quality movie are becoming increasingly popular.

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