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Yesterday France Television launched “The End, etc…“, a new web-native experiment by French film director Laetitia Masson. This is what I would call an interactive hybrid: interviews, fiction and database narrative are all mixed together to find a new way to question what “engagement” might mean in our contemporary society. As Boris Razon (Director of FranceTV’s Nouvelles Ecritures) explains, while France …
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 …
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 …
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 …
According to National Geographic, every two weeks a language dies and before 2100, over half of the world’s 7,000 languages – many of which aren’t recorded – will disappear. This is why projects like the Endangered Language Project now exist, to document the world’s languages, not only as a resource but to share advice and best practices for those working to document …
A COMPLETELY PERSONAL AND QUITE POSSIBLY PIXELATED SUMMARY OF KEY TAKE-AWAY POINTS FROM THE 2012 I-DOCS SYMPOSIUM, by Kerric Harvey 1. Match the tool with the job and start with “the job.” In other words, let technology enable, assist, or augment creativity, not define it. By the same token, avoid gratuitous interactivity—the act of making something “interactive” because you …
A guest post from our friends at 3WDOC: Recently returned from Bristol, where we have participated to the i-doc Symposium 2012, we would like to take this opportunity to thank Sandra Gaudenzi, Judith Aston, Maria Yáñez and Eva Dominguez for organizing this event dedicated to interactive documentary, and for inviting us! Here is a summary of what 3WDOC noted during …
Thanks Brian for sharing with our community your first impressions and reflections on i-Docs 2012! Here is what what you sent us: INSTANT ILL-CONSIDERED REFLECTIONS Technicism’s essentially flaw is an apparent need to be revolutionary when, in fact, technology is evolutionary. The illusion of revolution is created basically by exhibiting profound historical amnesia augmented by hyperbolic claims of effect. Technicism …
Max has sent me this post on the participation and authorship panel from the touchpress website: http://www.touchpress.com. As a pioneer of content-led approaches to videodisc and CD-ROM, he really does know about the deep bedrock that lies beneath our feet. Over to Max: Just back from the most excellent i-docs conference in Bristol. I spoke at one of the early …
These notes are taken from a feedback session at i-Docs 2012, chaired by Arnau Gifreu with keynote Jigar Mehta. All the questions either came from the audience or Arnau, for more information about the #18daysinegypt project, visit: 18daysinegypt.com Three basic aspects for the continuation of #18daysinegypt: How we increase participation? When does a project end? How do we build a …
So, after a couple of technical difficulties, here is the storify for i-Docs on the 23rd of March! Going to be adding to it throughout the day, refresh and watch it grow. [View the story “I-docs 2012: Friday 23rd March” on Storify]
I have just received an e-mail from Florian Thalhofer saying that he will unfortunately not be able to come to i-Docs this year (last year he was one of our keynotes speakers – view the full presentation here) because he is working like mad on a new Korsakow-project “the Greek and the Money” (working title). The originality of this project …
My interest in interactive documentaries (i-docs) and transmedia storytelling has immensely grew since the past two years. Part of this interest came from the new opportunities offered to me – as photojournalist – to tell stories in a different way. I needed to put more context into the stories and issues I was covering. I needed to explain things in an engaging …
Guest post by Jigar Mehta, i-Docs 2012 keynote speaker on Thursday 22 March. On January 25th 2012, the one-year anniversary of the start of the Egyptian revolution, we launched 18DaysinEgypt.com. No red carpet, no world premiere. It was a moment that we had spent many months building towards, but the site was not our final product. The launch was the …
