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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.
A glance at popcorn.js and its possibilities for i-docs making, one week before the release of its 1.0 version at the Mozilla Festival in London. The last article posted by Arnau Gifreu on the evolution and the future of the Internet invited me to start my collaboration with i-Docs introducing the first proposals that are coming from different studios to …
The 17th October 1961 a group of Algerians got killed by the French police. Fifty years after the event French newspaper Le Monde commissioned Olivier Lambert et Thomas Salva (the guys behind the brilliant Breves de Trottoirs) to do a historical web-doc on such mass crime. Have a look to La nuit oubliee, just out – and produced by a newspaper! …
The Tribeca New Media Fund will re-accept submissions in January 2012. This is what you need to know about them (from tehir website): ABOUT The TFI New Media Fund provides funding and support to non-fiction, social issue media projects which go beyond traditional screens – integrating film with content across media platforms, from video games and mobile apps to social …
The Tribeca Film Institute is one of the few that has been financing i-docs in the last years. We are thrilled to learn that 18 days in Egypt got $100,000 from the Tribeca New Media Fund to develop their very interesting HTML5 activist project! Well done! For more information about the other six projects that got selected do keep reading …
Have a look to this interview with social network visualization master Jonathan Harris. He is working on an i-doc on lesbian porn (rather unusual, I must say). It will be a format full of 10: 10 interviews, 10 seconds long video clips, 10 days etc… For now it is exhibited at the Pace/MacGill Gallery in NYC, but it is soon …
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tm-VTHCPpHc&feature=relmfu] Since 2004, getting on for a thousand filmmaker volunteers have between them recorded, translated and assembled footage following one day in the life of ten world citizens, chosen to reflect key global demographic realities. Decisions in the project are made by a collective. All the content is licensed under Creative Commons and is going to become an open archive. The …
