“For the first time in history, citizens are recording an actual revolution in real time. Throughout the 18 days of the 2011 uprising—in the year since—and now—Egyptians are filming pivotal events on their cell phones, taking pictures, texting, tweeting and facebooking their extraordinary bid for freedom. Now, “18 Days in Egypt”, the collaborative documentary project, aims [...]
Archive for the ‘Collaborative Tools’ Category
An Interview with Jigar Mehta
Posted: January 25, 2012 in Co-creation, Collaborative production, Collaborative Tools, DCRC, Digital, Documentary, Participatory cultureTags: 2011 Egyptian revolution, Cairo, Jigar Mehta, Yasmin Elayat
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Cowbird
Posted: December 9, 2011 in Co-creation, Collaborative Tools, DCRC, Narrative, Participatory culture, ToolsTags: Citizen journalism, Cowbird, Jonathan Harris, Occupy, Occupy Wall Street, Sep Kamvar, Storify, TED, We Feel Fine
“Cowbird is a simple tool for telling stories, and a public library of human experience.” Jonathan Harris’ latest project, just released, Cowbird is a gorgeous new platform for individual and collaborative storytelling. As Harris describes it on his site, “Cowbird is a small community of storytellers, interested in telling deeper, longer-lasting, more nourishing stories than you’re [...]
The world’s first open source 3D documentary and more!
Posted: November 6, 2011 in Co-creation, Collaborative production, Collaborative Tools, DCRC, Digital, Documentary, Interactive, Participatory culture, Semantic WebTags: Brett Gaylor, Kat Cizek, Mark Surman, Millionth Tower, Mozilla, Mozilla Foundation, National Film Board of Canada, One Millionth Tower, Open source, Popcorn Maker, popcorn.js, Wired
Mozilla’s mission, as Mark Surman, Executive Director of the Mozilla Foundation, explained at the start of proceedings at the Mozilla Festival yesterday, is about building choice, freedoms and technologies into the web to make it a place where we can be makers, not just users. Mozilla are putting their supporters money where their mouth is, [...]
Open Video Conference – 2011
Posted: September 10, 2011 in Collaborative production, Collaborative Tools, DCRC, Documentary, open video, Participatory culture, Semantic Web, ToolsTags: "The Are You Happy Project", 18daysinegypt, Highrise, HTML5, James Burns, Jesse Shapins, Kara Oehler, Kat Cizek, Mapping Main Street, Mozilla, Open Video Conference, popcorn.js, Rebellious Pixels, Web Made Movies, Zeega
It’s this year’s Open Video Conference (OVC) in NYC this weekend. “Open video is the movement to promote free expression and innovation in online video.” I was there last year and it was a great event, very relevant to my work, and this year’s lineup is no less strong. There are two projects on the programme which [...]
A Filmmaker-in-Residence
Posted: April 9, 2011 in Co-creation, Collaborative production, Collaborative Tools, DCRC, Documentary, Participatory culture, ToolsTags: BBC, Challenge for Change, CINER, Community Programmes Unit, DCRC, Filmmaker-in-Residence, Gerry Flahive, Highrise, Holy Mountain, iDocs, iDocs Symposium, Jacqueline Wallace, Katerina Cizek, MPI-TV, NFB, Out my Window, Peter Wintonick, PIne Point, Public AccessTV, Sandra Gaudenzi, Seeing is Believing, Video Nation
Good news this week from Cannes, where Katerina Cizek / Gerry Flahive‘s ‘Out my Window’ was the deserving winner of a Digital Emmy for non-fiction at MIP-TV. I’ve enthused about this National Film Board of Canada interactive documentary project here a number of times. (Nov ’10, Jan ’11). It’s the first output from Highrise, “a [...]
Ain’t No Grave
Posted: November 10, 2010 in Collaborative production, Collaborative Tools, Participatory cultureTags: American VI: Ain't No Grave, Chris Milk, Johnny Cash, Music video
I just came across a short documentary recently posted on You Tube by Chris Milk, director of the luminous Johnny Cash Project. It’s based on interviews with some of the fan / artists who have taken part in his virtuoso crowd-sourced work. The interviews underline the powerful feeling about Johnny Cash that the project draws on, [...]
One Day on Earth
Posted: October 10, 2010 in Co-creation, Collaborative Tools, DCRC, Documentary, Participatory culture, UGCTags: Kevin Macdonald, Life in a Day, one day on earth, Ridley Scott, Vimeo, YouTube
Today sees the filming of a global collaborative project; One Day on Earth, which the organisers are describing as the “largest participatory media event in history”. It’s hot on the heels of Life in a Day, the Ridley Scott, Kevin Macdonald project that I wrote about back in July for which You Tubers were invited to record [...]
The Open Video Conference
Posted: October 7, 2010 in Documentary, Tools, Co-creation, Participatory culture, Collaborative Tools, UGC, Narrative, DCRCTags: Michael Wesch, Aaron Koblin, Brett Gaylor, HTML5, Creative Commons, Mozilla, Open Video Conference, Open Video Alliance, Scott Draves, Casey Pugh, Jamie Wilkinson, LucasFilm, Arts, Video, Ben Moskowitz, Kaltura, Vincent Moon, Intelligent Television, Star Wars: Uncut, Star Wars: A New Hope, popcorn.js, Susan Crawford, Ushahidi, Eric Whiteacre, Virtual Choir, Dove, Onslaught, Shawn Ahmed, Uncultured Project, Adam Chodikoff, The Yes Men, Eyebeam
Having worked in TV and then for a decade in “new” media I’ve felt acutely aware of inhabiting distinct cultures in my professional life. It’s perhaps been most apparent when I’ve been involved in cross-platform projects. Linear and non-linear production structures and processes don’t easily mesh, and I’ve been in situations with good creative people [...]
