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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 …
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 …
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 …
UPDATE: Following the release of their pilot version of the project, the Clouds team now want to produce the documentary in an interactive environment: “The CLOUDS experience is generated from a database of richly tagged interviews. For you, the viewer, the story begins with your curiosity. You input a question or search term as the starting point, setting the initial …
Daniel Burwen hot from his talk at IDFA Doclab is on his way to speak to my students in Bristol today and to meet fellow residents in the Pervasive Media studio tomorrow. This is the first of an intermittent series of i-Docs presents events in Bristol – get in touch with us via the Facebook group or idocsinteractive@gmail.com if you’d …
It has been difficult to keep track of the authoring tool that have emerged lately: seven new tools (Klynt, Popcorn Maker, 3WDOC, Conductr, Storyplanet, Galahad and Zeega) in the last two years… enough for all of us to question how are they different and how can we choose between them when starting a new i-doc. This is why, at last year’s i-Docs conference, we decided …
There was an upbeat mood at last Sunday’s Interactive Documentary Conference, organised by Caspar Sonnen for the fifth anniversary of the IDFA new media programme Doclab. The one-day event was one element in the Expanding Documentary programme which also included a number of exhibitions and live cinema events. “How does the documentary genre connect to visual art, music or the …
Translimitstorytelling is a brand new company dedicated to creating stories for the digital age. Headed up by Nina Simoes, who spoke at i-Docs 2011 & 2012, they already have two strong in-house productions, the company is also open to co-productions with creators who are experimenting with groundbreaking technologies and innovative ways to engage with audiences. The team behind Translimitstorytelling is …
A few weeks ago we told you about the first POV hackathon in this post and some of the amazing prototypes that emerged out of it, as well as the brilliant documentation of the event by Rahul Chadha. And now they’re at it again and looking for participants for the POV Hackathon 2! Ten teams of filmmakers and technologists will converge for a …
In a recent blog post – Stop Making Docs – Brian Newman argued that the era of the short doc has arrived. With the web, shareable media, mobile exhibition, he argues, the longer and feature length documentaires that dominate festivals are no longer where it’s at, if the aim is to reach an audience and make an impact. His alternative, “Make …
Day two at Mozfest – hopefully finalising the web documentary manifesto and having some fun with the brand new Popcorn maker!
i-Docs was lucky to spend the whole weekend at Mozfest, playing with new tools, hearing about exciting projects and beginning the web documentary manifesto – follow the news from day 1 here.
