i-Docs contributor and documentary maker Mandy Rose is demonstrating her latest work as part of Bristol’s Festival of Ideas. [quote style=”boxed”]Fifty years ago people on the streets of Paris were asked: Are you happy? in a documentary experiment with the new film technology of 1960 – hand-held sync sound. Searching for Happiness takes advantage of a new era of creative …
UWE Bristol and BBC Factual, the BBC’s award-winning documentary and factual programme unit, have partnered to create a new MA Documentary and Features course A practical and production-based learning opportunity You’ll be taught by industry experts – with half of the teaching being delivered by current and former BBC production personnel, the very best in the business. The other half …
Not everyone can be at SXSW and despite regular updates via twitter, it’s incredibly hard to not feel like you’re missing out, particularly when you know you’re missing things like this: However don’t be too downhearted! The folks at SXSW are incredible at sharing and have been uploading talks to Soundcloud throughout the festival allowing you to keep up with …
The New York Times Opinion Pages today announced a new multiplatform interactive series of Op-Docs in collaboration with the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) as part of its ongoing HIGHRISE project. ‘A Short History of the Highrise’ will premiere this summer on NYTimes.com and subsequently on NFB.ca/highrise. The series, an interactive project comprised of four short documentaries, explores the history …
This is an online interactive documentary about how to make an online interactive documentary. It is an initiative which has been borne out of my Masters Research undertaking at the Australian Film Television and Radio School titled: Documentary Producing and Interactive Platforms, Opportunities, Evolving Processes and the Changing Craft. My hopes for this site are that it is used as …
Last Thursday the National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture (NAMAC) and The Daily Dot held a Google Hangout on the ever relevant topic of Transmedia. Moderated by Convergence Culture author Henry Jenkins, the discussion also featured the voices of Ingrid Kopp, the Director of Digital Initiatives at Tribeca Film Institute and documentary filmmaker Marc Smolowitz amongst others. The concept …
The Tribeca Film Institute have announced their newest venture, the TFI Sandbox. The brand new site focuses on all the TFI digital initiatives including Tribeca Hacks and TFI interactive. Through the sandbox, users can get insights into new projects as well as an amazing resources section. Some projects which have already benefited from funding through include Elaine Mcmillion’s Hollow, Jigar …
A couple of weeks ago, i-Docs presented at the BBC Digital Bristol week, if you missed it don’t worry – we have all the talks here courtesy of the BBC: [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDmV37WENIc] Judith Aston, Sandra Gaudenzi, and Mandy Rose – i-Docs Lab 1: Key Concepts for Understanding i-Docs [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXnygjofVGc] Max Whitby – i-Docs Lab 2: Meet the Producers of …
Anne Guion, a French reporter from La Vie (a print weekly which belongs to Le Monde group) has used Klynt to create an i-Doc in under a week. The narrative follows Farkhonda, a refugee from Afghanistan who has spent the last 12 years living in Australia, as she returns to Kabul. The idea originally came from Viviane Dalles, a French photographer …
As most of you are probably aware, Sundance Film Festival recently took place in Utah. One area of the festival which particularly caught our attention was New Frontier, an “experiment in Festival presentation, New Frontier is a social and creative space that showcases media installations, multimedia performances, transmedia experiences, panel discussions, and more.” It sounded great and some of the projects which were showcased …
The University of the West of England, Bristol, is appointing a new Director of the Digital Cultures Research Centre. Based in the Pervasive Media Studio in Bristol’s Creative Harbour, DCRC is a leading UK Research Centre with an international reputation for research and innovation in the fields of Digital Culture and Pervasive Media. Applicants will have an excellent record of …
To send you off on your merry xmas way, here’s a few of announcements from i-Docs (and Zeega!): Incase you haven’t seen already, Austin Music Map, a brand new project created in Zeega has launched! ” A participatory documentary project that creates portraits of the venues and spaces where musical communities gather, the Austin Music Map invites you to play the cityand map the …
A couple of months ago, Mandy Rose spoke at the BBC Fusion Summit which asked the question, ‘what is the future of factual programming?’ Mandy’s talk offers an overview of what’s happening where documentary meets networked culture, with reflections on co-creation, crowd-funding, open rights frameworks and distribution. Interested? Well here’s the whole talk below: To find out more about the BBC …
An exciting announcement for a friday afternoon from Submarine Channel: We’re proud to share with you that we’ve just released Keep on Steppin’, our newest cross-media project comprised of five short poetic films, an interactive website, an iPad documentary app (still being approved by Apple!), the book Koeraaj Koeraaj and a photo exhibition. In Keep on Steppin’, filmmaker Marjoleine Boonstra …
Alongside their 56th annual photojournalism contest, World Press Photo are holding their multimedia contest for a 3rd time and are looking for entries. World Press Photo have recognised documentary storytellers additions to the field of visual journalism, focusing on innovative and exciting work within three broad categories: an online short, and online feature and, most importantly for the i-Docs community, an interactive documentary! Their …
