This Friday and Saturday, Manchester teenagers are set to tell their own real-life stories through live transmissions from the streets of the city. My Neck of the Woods, a collaboration between Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre and BAFTA winning interactive artists Blast Theory, is part documentary, part performance, part live-stream online video experience. The online experience will see young people from the Exchange’s Truth About …
I’d Hide You – by Blast Theory
POST UPDATE: So this event’s been and gone now, but you can read a great review of it: A highlight of the festival was Blast Theory’s contribution, I’d Hide You, a live-action game based in the streets of Manchester’s Northern Quarter. As Blast Theory’s runners, each dressed in a distinctive uniform and equipped with a video camera, ducked and dived …
(Almost) Weekly Roundup!
It’s not quite Friday, but here’s a hand crafted round up of what i-Docs has found on the web this week! 1. Another guest post from Jesse Shapins, unfortunately not on the i-Docs site this time, but over at PBS. Jesse discusses ‘How the Indie Audio Community Is Transforming Storytelling’ and packs in plenty of good examples to boot! Have …
When documentary space becomes a whole city
Most people would agree with the idea that digital media has totally changed the way we produce, distribute and view documentaries. It is easy to see how digital cameras, digital edit suites and online distribution have become the norm in the documentary world, it is harder to see how much new media has infiltrating the whole concept behind what John …