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If you haven’t heard of Into Eternity yet, nows a really good time to open your ears as they are opening a “window of 150 837 seconds of free on-line streaming of the documentary INTO ETERNITY” on both the 3rd (tomorrow!) and 5th of March. Have a look at their website for more details or visit tomorrow from 7.32am (CET): http://www.intoeternitythemovie.com/ A bit of background INTO …
It’s that time of the week where we’re pulling some of the most interesting bits from the Facebook group and popping them up here; this week is focused on story telling. First up some story telling tips from Caspar Sonnen. He mentions interfaces from some of the projects presented at last years i-Docs; GazaSderot and Prison Valley as well as Kat Cizek’s project, …
The programme is now up in its entirety! The symposium is spread over 2 days featuring talks from Jigar Mehta, Brett Gaylor, Kat Cizek, Submarine Channel and many many more! Look through the programme to see who else speaking and find out more about each one by clicking the links! And there is still more to come – workshops, which …
As immersive journalism is experimenting new ways to create “immersion” (see Eva Dominguez’s article on this for LaVanguardia) Nonny de la Pena goes one step further. With Hunger in L.A. she combines filmmaking, augmented reality, and journalism to recreate a real incident that took place two years ago at a food bank line in L.A. This is a fascinating project …
Firstly a blog post from Patrick Meier (an internationally recognized thought leader on the application of new technologies for crisis early warning, humanitarian response, human rights and civil resistance) on ‘Why Bounded Crowdsourcing is Important for Crisis Mapping and Beyond’. If you’re not entirely sure what ‘Bounded Crowdsourcing’ actually is, read an earlier post from Meier here. Next is Biasmap, …
We’ve had a lot of interesting links/videos/articles posted to our Facebook group so here’s a few of the best so far: Bears and interactive documentaries Bear 71 from National Film Board of Canada on Vimeo. Bear 71 Live observes and records the intersection of humans, nature and technology in a live, Internet connected event. Questioning how we see the world …
Photography first, and now 360-degree video have served to experiment with spatial immersion in digital journalism in order to give the spectators the option to see the scene as it revolves around them, in any direction. These days there are more and more interactive reports and documentaries using this resource. Spatial immersion is spreading. I this article I wrote for La Vanguardia I explore how spatial immersion …
Will Wright (the man behind the Sims, SimCity and Spore) is now thinking to use crowd sourcing to mix reality with game world… this new type of hybrid could become a new genre… Have a look to this news article from Reuters…
The call for Political Remix Videos (PVRs) is open until December 25th 2011. EMBED, together with the European Cultural Foundation and the Doc Next Network, call for international PVRs. Works participating will become part of EMBED events. Some of them will be included in the Doc Next Network media collection. Since last year, EMBED has been collaborating with the Doc Next Network …
The beautiful stylish and poetic interactive film INSITU has won the IDFA DocLab Award for Digital Storytelling 2011. Interestingly enough it was the less interactive of all the 15 projects that were presented and yet… it is so beautiful! I invite you to plunge in the poetry of INSITU by clicking here, or to read my personal views on this …
The exploration of both new narrative forms and possible ways of doing business for reporting and creating documentaries has started to bear fruit in the tablets, with the iPad as the principal ‘promised land’. Let’s take a look at four examples of apps. In this article I wrote for La Vanguardia four cases are shown: Money & Speed: Inside the Black Box, Condition One, Congo, …
Nuno Bernardo is an award-winning transmedia writer/producer and creator of the world’s first international interactive on-line teen series, Sofia’s Diary. He is also the CEO of transmedia production company beActive and author of The Producer’s Guide to Transmedia. Your background is in advertising and journalism. What element or factor would you say it was decisive to setting up your company …
Kat Cizek, and her NFB team, have just launched Highrise’s latest baby: One Millionth Tower. This is the fifth experiment in four years of what is now becoming a networked documentary, rather than a simple idoc. When Highrise started at the NFB in 2008 it was described as a “multi-year, multi-media documentary” but I have to admit that the whole concept was not very clear …
Do go to Wired Magazine to watch the launch of Highrise’s brand new baby: One Millionth Tower. The project was launched by Kat Cizek just today in London at the Mozilla Festival “Media, Freedom and the Web”. There will be a full presentation of One Millionth Tower on Monday 7th that I will attend so… I’ll write more about it then! For now… …
Webdocs, a survival guide for online filmmakers may be the first book devoted to a practical view on this hot topic. His author, Matthieu Lietaert, a documentary creator himself, aims to give some tools to develop web-documentaries.
