Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as “Transmedia”
Last year saw the first ever recipients of the Tribeca Film Institute new media fund. Four to eight non-fiction projects are funded between $50,000 and $100,000 as well as mentoring and peer support for producers. The projects funded were a diverse collection of nonfiction transmedia works, including i-Docs keynote Jigar Mehta and his project 18 Days in Egypt. Eight months later …
Not everyone (including me) was lucky enough to be at Sheffield Doc Fest this year, but luckily some of the i-Docs team were and I was able to avidly follow their movements via the wonder that is Twitter to bring you, lucky reader, some of the projects that appeared at the renowned documentary festival this year: First up is farewellcomrades.com, …
Liz Nord is a documentary filmmaker and multi-platform producer who has produced and shown work in Europe, the Middle East and throughout North America. However her current documentary project ‘Battle for Jerusalem’ is taking a less conventional path and being released online first. The film itself follows the struggle of young, fearless City Council member Rachel Azaria, who is fighting …
Patrick Möller is a Transmedia Storyteller, ARG Developer and Gamer at Imaginary Friends. This presentation is from the first “Transmedia Mobile Gaming” conference in Warsaw, Poland. Patrick was invited by Voodoodance to speak about “Transmedia Storytelling” and to show some cases, these are the slides from his talk: Transmedia Mobile Gaming – Conference | Transmedia Storytellling View more presentations from …
If you’ve been on Twitter in the last month, there’s a good chance you’ve already heard of ‘Hollow’, an interactive documentary project by Elaine McMillion and backed by the documentary king himself, Morgan Spurlock. Hollow is a hybrid community participatory project and interactive documentary where content is created “for the community, by the community.” Using a combination of documentary video, UGC, …
POST UPDATE Professor Henry Jenkins is well known for setting the topic “Transmedia Storytelling” some years ago. Now he answers our questions about “Why Transmedia?” Henry Jenkins [T, F, W] is well known to the people working in the field of transmedia storytelling. He is a Provost’s Professor of Communication, Journalism and Cinematic Arts which is a joint professorship at the USC Annenberg School of Communicationand …
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 …
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 …
Interactivity, collaboration and activism A guest post from one of this years speakers Paulina Tervo. Background – why did the story turn into an interactive project? In 2004 I came across a small community called Awra Amba during my travels in the rural parts of Northern Ethiopia. Having seen a lot of poverty and hardship on my trip, I was …
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 …
When discussing what is new about interactive documentaries, I am genuinely excited by the possibilities for using Web 2.0 to create community hubs through participatory documentary making. The producer/director often assumes the role of a curator and takes responsibility for creating a narrative framework as a catalyst for audience-generated content, leading to the possibility of immediate dialogue with and between …
“Brèves de Trottoirs” (translatable as “Sidewalk Shorts”) is a 2010/2011 stylish French multi-platform documentary from writer Olivier Lambert and photojournalist Thomas Salva. The aim is to portray what they call “daily celebrities” living in a complex city such as Paris. Their videos of Parisians with interesting backstories has appeared online and on television, and is in the process of becoming …
Have a look to this great study done by the Canadian Documentary Network. It is called Documentary and New Digital Platforms: An Ecosystem in Transition and it is a good 56 pages report on what is happening in the idoc world. Worth checking!
I have just been teaching crossmedia documentary production to my undergraduate students in Bristol. Their brief was to create a character-led documentary across the three areas of moving image, sound and interactive. After several years of teaching this module, I have finally seen a good example of a cinematic interface helping to create an immersive framework for engagement with documentary …
