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Angela Watercutter: "TheBlu, a 'social digital ocean' that launched Friday, is an ambitious web app that turns computers into interactive nature documentaries" ... 
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Arnau Gifreu Castells: "Mixing documentary (non-fiction) and game (fiction) seems a strategy that many interactive documentary producers are considering, because the fact of reality combined with a structure that includes the users and put themselves at the heart of the action, creates a much more hyper and immersed scenario for the interactive documentary and its participants"...
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Werner Herzog: "Number one, I do not do interviews. I have no questions. I do conversations but I have no catalogue of questions. And when they ask me, are you a TV journalist? I say ‘No I am a Bavarian filmmaker, I do films. But lets face it I’m not a journalist, I’m a poet"... DRC: A glimpse behind the curtain at the process of a great filmmaker.
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"An anonymous undercover reporter for Al Jazeera has captured the Syrian uprising in a first-of-its-kind-documentary — recorded on an iPhone."
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"The head of beActive Media & MIPCube speaker explains how transmedia tactics can be applied to documentary and factual entertainment shows." In this article Nuno Bernado discusses his journey from transmedia projects aimed at teen girls to developing "documentaries and factual TV series aimed at older audiences". With 350 South, beActive is taking the "extended documentary" into the transmedia realm by way of social media and audience engagement. For more on factual television's embrace of transmedia, you might want to check out the "Action Documentary" Battle Castle and read more on their transmedia approach over at Digital Media Wire.
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And those points are: 1. Tools and HTLM 5 as the next revolution for i-docs 2. Finances 3. New i-docs platforms 4. Augmented reality and layered i-docs 5. i-docs as a new form of activism 6. Mixing fiction and non fiction: the trans-media way 7. Some new i-doc jewels 8. New i-docs events and conferences 9. New i-docs blogs and websites 10. New i-docs training programmes
A great article, as always, from i-docs.
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It's an exciting time for filmmakers and storytellers who are exploring ways to enhance their stories via the web. One of the new genres to emerge is the "web" or "connected" documentary. In essence, these are documentary projects that try to engage...
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"[Connected Documentary] is an emerging field. But for filmmakers hacking on web-based stories, it basically boils down to this: You have to commit to the fact the “thing” you are making is not a linear, unchanging video with a discrete runtime (even if your users will experience it as such). For all intents and purposes, you’re making a web app."
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A look at the various narrative structures of interactive documentaries.
Christopher's curator insight,
April 8, 2014 5:12 PM
Right! Game developers can help us think different about clusters in the funnel or retargeting drifters back to the funnel.
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Three Portuguese journalists will traverse 10 countries to learn about the causes that led to the Arab Spring in an online doc series produced by transmedia prodco beActive.
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About 400 people gathered in Tahrir Square Thursday to launch a new kind of documentary about the Egyptian revolution.
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We intend to emphasize in this second post of the series called “New roles on the interactive documentary” some possible changes or “new ways of doing” in relation to this kind of narrative...
[Part one can be found @scoopit http://bit.ly/z3mFfX]
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Dan Schoenbrun: "And, while the discussions this year did focus on the issue of sustainability, there was still plenty of universal wisdom dispensed that social issue filmmakers – no matter their chosen subject matter – should bear in mind"...
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Now available free, it is a textbook for creating participatory documentaries using social media. Downloadable document: http://geniwate.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/part-doc-cookbook.pdf
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"Why talk about the HTML5 standard, about Flash, about programming in a [i-Docs] symposium about interactive documentaries? Because in the digital world the technology moulds the content. The narrative possibilities will sooner or later clash with the technological ones. The distance between what is imagined and what is produced is marked by the latter." DRC: A look at 3 editors for interactive content: Popcorn Maker, Klynt, and 3WDOC. You'll find the slideshow that accompanies this discussion here.
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Traditional documentaries are morphing into interactive experiences with the help of new technology and support from big names in the film industry...
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"Many of today’s documentary filmmakers are making bold stylistic choices more often associated with narrative storytelling than documentary filmmaking and finding savvy new ways to engage audiences." "Filmmaker Amanda Lin Costa consults the experts on emerging trends being utilized by this exciting new wave of US documentary filmmakers."
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"When we opened [18 Days in Egypt] on January 25th, we did not want participants to see a blank website waiting for the first person to tell their story"...
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"The Portapak, a helically scanned 1/2inch video camera with built in sound and a separate tape deck, had been on the market for nearly a decade when John [Gaventa] decided that he could use it with the strikers and their families to hold a virtual meeting"...
[This post seves as an introduction to a session that Brian Winston will be holding at the 2012 i-docs Symposium (UK) but it also makes an interesting stand-alone read.]
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Multiplatform transmedia content and targeted online marketing pulls thousands of fans into Battle Castle universe before tv documentary series broadcasts.
[Wow! Transmedia as a way of expanding viewership beyond the traditional audience for documentary works. Yeah!]
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Quick: first thing that pops into your head when you hear “Canadian film." No, Uncle Buck doesn’t count.
[A great article on how The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) is using its interactive documentary projects and online screening room to push the boundaries of narrative storytelling.] Via siobhan-o-flynn
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"Just launched at Sundance, Bear 71 is a brilliant interactive documentary created by Jeremy Mendes and Leanne Allison with the NFB Digital Studio. It’s a haunting story told from the point-of-view of a female grizzly bear – Bear 71 – about humans and animals in the Banff National Park, and how animals are being devastated in that relationship."
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In a press release sent out today, international distributor Ro*Co Productions and production company 1492 Pcitures have announced a partnership to adapt documentaries into dramatic features.
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For Pina, his first venture into 3-D filmmaking, German auteur Wim Wenders has crafted a sophisticated documentary about dance rather than a popcorn flick loaded with aliens or adventurers...
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