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Snowfall, a New York Times interactive experience which was released in December 2012, brought with it tweets hailing the piece as “the future of journalism”. More recently The Guardian released ‘Firestorm’, which again prompted the same response (from me included…) And the Huffington Post added Elaine Macmillion’s Hollow into the same category stating, ” Anyone who saw promise for the future …
Interactive documentary crosses over into a number of disciplines and urban ism is no exception. Katerina Cizek’s work with Highrise and McMillion’s recent documentary Hollow both explore people’s relationships to the environments they live in and how they could be improved. Architect and urban designer Daryl Mulvihill is continuing this research through a project entitled Participatory Documentary [and the city]. His company dmau ‘s work …
As new technologies increasingly shrink the physical distances between us, allowing us to connect with anyone, anywhere. Is there a gap in the market for technology that brings us together in the real world? Developed by Tim Kindberg and Charlotte Crofts, with ‘pump priming’ funding from REACT, the Nth screen works by turning a group of phones and tablets into …
I have just returned from delivering a workshop on i-docs at the Freiburger Film Forum, alongside Florian Thalhofer, inventor of the Korsakow system. It was great to see Florian again and our respective talks sparked a lively discussion between us on the evolution of interactive documentaries. As two of the pioneers in the field – Florian having invented Korsakow over …
“Everything will be online.” Create interactive and engaging webdocumentaries at Webdox 2013: iDROPS Doc Jam, Dox & Tech LAB and Doc Hothouse How does user behaviour change once tablets are involved? How can data be collected and retrieved in a creative way? Which software do you use to make an interactive webdocumentary? What are good open source platforms? Documentaries and …
I am delighted to announce that the i-Docs special edition of Journal of Studies in Documentary Film is now available. Edited by Sandra Gaudenzi, Jon Dovey and myself, this came out of the 2011 symposium and covers many key issues pertinent to ongoing debates in the field. The journal can be purchased online and articles can be downloaded. It is backdated …
If you are reading this post, the chances are that you know what a web-doc is… and yet… are you sure you do know? If you had to give a definition, if you had to be specific about what it is and what it is not… what would you say? Welcome to the club… we are all in the same …
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 …
Fotis Begklis is an Academic Developer specialising in Technology Enhanced Learning at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is involved in a variety of staff development activities for teaching and learning with technologies in Higher Education. Below are his slides from i-Docs 2012 where he presented his project which will become an interactive documentary which will be ready before the beginning …
Below are Martha Ladly‘s slides and text from her presentation at i-Docs 2012. Open publication – Free publishing – More documentary Open publication – Free publishing – More documentary Martha Ladly is a Professor at the OCAD University in Toronto, Canada, and a senior researcher at the OCADU Mobile Experience Lab. She specializes in technology and design research, has been …
A guest post by Brian Winston. People might remember Barbara Kopple’s Oscar winning documentary Harlan County, USA. It was about a bitter strike in the Kentucky coal-fields in 1974. Most memorably, the company goons were so out of control they even started shooting at the film crew. But my memory of Harlan County coverage is a little different. It centres on …
The purpose of this post is to nudge discussion on the role of the user in interactive documentaries (i-docs), and specifically to consider what capabilities we might want those users to have. I shall refer to those capabilities as their ‘talents’. And I’ll begin with a suggestion that the key distinction to be made between interactive and non-interactive documentary is …
In addition to their obvious contributions to non-fiction narrative media, the unique characteristics of interactive documentary may find another area of usefulness in cultural and social anthropology, especially as paradigm shifts continue to evolve regarding the power relationships between those being “studied” and those who are doing the “studying.” Beginning in the 1960s, traditional techniques for conducting ethnographic field research …
Highrise – multiple bridges into the layers of reality What are i-docs, and why are they more than just documentaries done with digital technologies? You will find all sort of new terminologies that can fit into the i-docs family: webdos, docu-games, collab docs, transmedia docs, cross-media docs… or just interactive documentaries. This can seem all very confusing, but really what …
