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We’re at Mozfest this weekend and in the spirit of the event, will be providing live updates throughout the weekend through the i-Docs Storify, which worked so successfully during our symposium. If you’re not aware of the Mozilla Festival, in the words of Mark Surman (Mozilla’s Executive Director) it’s “about anyone and everyone interested in the possibilities the web has …
At i-Docs we love a couple of things: sharing and our community and this post is a perfect combination of the two! A couple of brand new slideshows from Siobhan O’Flynn which she presented at the CWC Strategic Digital Leadership Accelerator in Toronto last week, particularly useful for people interested in interactivity and transmedia: CWC Social Story Business & You …
As transmedia is becoming a “must know of” for any digital producer, Dr Siobhan O’Flynn and Anthea Foyer have decided to make our life easier and to put all we need to know about it into one single place. The Transmedia Multiplatform Convergence (TMC) Resource Kit aims at being a one stop information tool for all those that …
Over the past few weeks, we’ve had some good emails to the i-Docs inbox about some interesting things happening in the world of interactive documentary, so thought we’d share them with you! First up, you can download a great podcast about documentary in the digital world from the folks at ABC (Australia) Radio National: “Most of us have a stuffy …
After 2 years of hard work, Upian (Gaza/Sderot, Prison Valley) has just released Alma. This is not a story like others, nor an i-docs like others. Although it is a cross-media production (it is an iPad application, a website, a documentary, a book and an exhibition) it is one unique story made available on different platforms. No game, no story-world, no transmedia …
Ryan Merkley, COO of the Mozilla Foundation, demonstrates Popcorn software in this short, but informative TED talk which has recently been put online. Incase you weren’t already aware, Popcorn.js is an HTML5 media framework written in JavaScript for filmmakers, web developers, and anyone who wants to create time-based interactive media – you can find out more in this short film by …
Power to the Pixel was held in London for the 6th year in a row, showing the world of media production that transmedia is more than a trend: it is a logic of production and an marketing strategy that fits the needs of our global media world. As always, the Power to the Pixel proposition was spread during four days: …
idrops has managed to gather an amazing cast of digital experts to deliver Europe’s first DIY Day! This is a one day workshop for storytellers to learn how to finance, develop, distribute and sustain themselves as collaborative entrepreneurs. As it is a free event (you just need to register) I really suggest you have a look to their programme and sign …
OFFSHORE has just launched their online preview! Try it for yourself… it is worth it… OFFSHORE is a web documentary created by Brenda Longfellow, Glenn Richards and Helios Design Labs that explores the dark waters of the global offshore oil industry in the wake of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion. The storytelling takes place within the virtual world of a 3D, imagined oil rig that …
Using a game as a narrative resource in journalism is nothing new, although it is a minority pursuit. Nevertheless, the influence of gaming strategies is growing in digital works and even two Pulitzer journalists are working in a documentary and a game. Their goal is to make the world aware of the conditions of inequality in which women and children …
I have been contacted by Jesse de Vos, a former master student in Film and Television Theory at the University of Utrecht, because he had been following my blog and wanted to have some feed-back on his Master thesis. Once I read the text I was so impressed by it that I thought it had to be available for others… …
The following is an interesting interview with Tommy Pallotta (Collapsus) – who is apparently currently working on a documentary were animation is widely used (not clear if there is any interaction too). Pallotta has an interesting view on technology – a view that I entirely share and that I always try to remember: “For me” he says ” technology is …
A guest post from Adina Bradeanu, originally published on DocWest. Set up to explore the ‘contexts and possibilities’ of past and recent docu-output, and organized by documentary scholars Alisa Lebow and Michael Chanan, the ¡Documentary Now! conference has joined forces this year with Open City London Documentary Festival, and moved to a new location within the UCL. I only attended a few presentations during each of the …
The Transmedia Generation: Spreadable Media, Fan Activism, and Participatory Culture At 1.00pm (GMT) Henry Jenkins will be opening his virtual doors and conducting a web chat and you could be a part of it. Commonly referred to as the Digital Generation, or Digital Natives, young people of today’s new media world think, learn, create, and mobilize politically much differently than …
The Block, a residential area in Redfern, Sydney, was established in 1973. Located on land traditionally inhabited by the Gadigal people, it quickly became known as a place for the Indigenous community: “a place where people converge to share their stories and to release their pain. For the Stolen Generations in particular, it is a place to reconnect with long lost …
