We’ll say it up front: this is not a love confession about a globally popular fruit. Or even a list of complaints lodged against them. Rather, we decided to reflect on the leaps and hurdles we encountered making an iPad documentary app. Or should we rephrase, getting one into Apple’s App Store. (spoiler alert: it’s … Continued
***CLICK HERE TO WATCH *** The interactive documentary space is a paradise for discovering the maturing of digital storytelling. Powered by the web, a host of disruptive new media technologies, and a desire to create meaningful and immersive experiences, the renaissance that’s emerged in documentary storytelling in the last several years created evergreen themes like … Continued
Director Tommy Pallotta introduces Collapsus, Submarine Channel’s 2010 transmedia project that combines interactivity, animation, fiction, and documentary. Collapsus looks into the near future and shows you how the imminent energy crisis affects a group of ten young people, who appear to be caught up in an energy conspiracy. Collapsus is part of the VPRO … Continued
The future is here! In the shape of this incredible but alas still-unreleased modded camera system that captures the entire human field of view as a distorted circular image.
This French crossmedia project (web, iPhone, book, tv) affectionately documents the personal stories of some of the most remarkable “street corner celebrities” of Paris. There’s Magda Pigalle, a 60-year-old Algerian transvestite from Paris’ red light district; Patrick – a homeless guy who gambles on the stock market, Violette “a flower among flowers” who runs her … Continued
Amsterdam’s international documentary mega-fest IDFA introduces, for the first time in the history of humanity, a brand new award for its interactive / new media / transmedia / crossmedia (oh whatevs!) program: IDFA DocLab. PROOF that interactive storytelling is no longer the subordinate sidekick of traditional formats. Huzzah! The three jury members are hotshot veterans … Continued
Yay! DocLab opened in our lovely town of Amsterdam last night. What’s DocLab? Oh it’s only the most splendid interactive new media non-fiction program ever! Hosted by none other than IDFA, the world’s biggest (and most magnificent!) documentary festival… The opening shindig featured a darling donkey that visits old folks’ homes; a poetic masterpiece on … Continued
You may have heard about Prison Valley already, it’s *kind of a big deal* in (that giant mass media monopoly known as) interactive web documentary! As well as a disturbingly compelling story and beautiful cinematography, Prison Valley really maxes out on the capabilities of semantic web 2.0, with remarkable features like being able to chat … Continued
3 weeks in and the web documentary production in Phnom Penh, Cambodia for Boomtown Babylon is reaching Colonel Kurtz-like levels of intensity as director Vincent Moon produces content together with inhabitants of a remote, dusty artificial frontier town way beyond the city’s limits, where former residents of destroyed inner-city slums are forcibly sent to live. … Continued
How come France is the undisputed gold medallist of le web documentaire? In the past 2 days, they’ve spouted not one but two corkers: Le Challenge and Havana-Miami. Applying two very different approaches (visually and interface-wise), the former is an interactive investigation that maxes out on the “choose-your-own-adventure” possibilities of non-linear storytelling, while the latter … Continued
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