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Not everyone can be at SXSW and despite regular updates via twitter, it’s incredibly hard to not feel like you’re missing out, particularly when you know you’re missing things like this: However don’t be too downhearted! The folks at SXSW are incredible at sharing and have been uploading talks to Soundcloud throughout the festival allowing you to keep up with …
The Tribeca Film Institute have announced their newest venture, the TFI Sandbox. The brand new site focuses on all the TFI digital initiatives including Tribeca Hacks and TFI interactive. Through the sandbox, users can get insights into new projects as well as an amazing resources section. Some projects which have already benefited from funding through include Elaine Mcmillion’s Hollow, Jigar …
Anne Guion, a French reporter from La Vie (a print weekly which belongs to Le Monde group) has used Klynt to create an i-Doc in under a week. The narrative follows Farkhonda, a refugee from Afghanistan who has spent the last 12 years living in Australia, as she returns to Kabul. The idea originally came from Viviane Dalles, a French photographer …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
After almost a year of work, incorporating many returns of use from our beta testers, whom we thank, the newest version of 3WDOC Studio is now available! This application was briefly presented at the last edition of i-docs 2012 Symposium in Bristol. The new version of the 3WDOC Studio application is finally ready. It comes in three languages French, English, …
Guest post from Tomas Rawlings, who chaired a panel at the (very) recent Crossover Summit at Sheffield DocFest – you can read his original article here, along with tons of other great blog posts about games, networked media, technology, evolution & nature. On Wednesday I chaired a session about feedback, games and media at the Crossover Summit at Sheffield Documentary Festival (image) …
The i-Docs symposium seems like so long ago already, so partly for nostalgia and partly because I forgot to do it at the time, here’s a few of the cool projects people showed us during their presentations. 1. Wolfram|Alpha is like Google but with far more depth: [quote]Wolfram|Alpha introduces a fundamentally new way to get knowledge and answers— not by searching …
Fotis Begklis is an Academic Developer specialising in Technology Enhanced Learning at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is involved in a variety of staff development activities for teaching and learning with technologies in Higher Education. Below are his slides from i-Docs 2012 where he presented his project which will become an interactive documentary which will be ready before the beginning …
Having recently presented A Tale of Two Johns at i-docs in Bristol we thought we would give a little overview of the project for those who weren’t able to see our presentation. Enjoy and feel free to follow the progress of the project on Twitter by following us @LondonQuest. The Concept A Tale of Two Johns is an interactive drama …
