Interactive Documentary Blog
How can 3D worlds be used in documentaries? A review of One Millionth Tower
November 8th, 2011
Tags: 3D, 3D explorer, conversational mode, highrise, kat cizek, NFB, One Millionth Tower, space
Kat Cizek, and her NFB team, have just launched Highrise’s latest baby: One Millionth Tower.
This is the fifth experiment in four years of what is now becoming a networked documentary, rather than a simple idoc. When Highrise started at the NFB in 2008 it was described as a “multi-year, multi-media documentary” but I have to [...]
Premiere of One Millionth Tower
Do go to Wired Magazine to watch the launch of Highrise’s brand new baby: One Millionth Tower. The project was launched by Kat Cizek just today in London at the Mozilla Festival “Media, Freedom and the Web”.
There will be a full presentation of One Millionth Tower on Monday that I will attend so… I’ll right [...]
i-Docs 2012: the CFP is out!
October 22nd, 2011
Tags: 2012, bristol, conference, conference i-Docs
Following the huge success of i-Docs 2011, we are already working on i-Docs 2012!!! It will be a longer event this year, two full days totally dedicated to the interactive documentary form: on the 22nd and 23rd of March, in Bristol, UK.
The Call for Participation is just gone public: have a look to it do send [...]
Thoughts on Power to the Pixel 2011
October 17th, 2011
Tags: AR, Augmented Reality, highrise, kat cizek, Lance Wieler, mixed reality, Power to the Pixel
Power to the Pixel had its annual conference/festival last week, here in London. I only attended the conference day, just because I was curious to see how the trans-media trend was permeating into the documentary world. It was interesting to notice that in what is effectively THE only trans-media conference/festival in the world only one out [...]
what is a transmedia adventure documentary?
October 5th, 2011
Tags: Alaska, Argentina, cross-platform, crossmedia, cycling, transmedia, travel documentary
Apparently it is this… the documentation of a cycling trip from Alaska to Argentina told via a blog, a GPS map, mobile technology, an iPad app and a few more platforms… To me this sounds more as a multi-platform documentary than a trans-media one (in the sense that the information is delivered via multiple [...]
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