There are a couple of opportunities in England this month for some hands-on experimentation and learning with new tools for interactive and ‘”connected” documentary. Following the i_Docs Symposium here in Bristol there will be two parallel day-long workshops on Saturday 24th with industry professionals from 3WDOC and HonkyLab. “The workshops will explore each company’s cutting-edge authoring [...]
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Interactive Media – New Tools – March Labs
Posted: March 2, 2012 in DCRC, Digital, Documentary, Interactive, open video, Participatory culture, Semantic Web, ToolsTags: 3WDoc, Honkylab, i-Docs 2012, Klynt, Mozilla, Mozilla Popcorn, Popcorn Maker
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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
“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 [...]
Participatory Culture : Public Education
Posted: December 17, 2011 in DCRC, Digital, Participatory cultureTags: Critical theory, Henry Jenkins, Liz Losh, New York University, public education, State school
Elizabeth Losh represents “Team Critical Theory” and Henry Jenkins “Team Cultural Studies” in this great discussion that gets to grips with how and whether US public education can take advantage of participatory culture. Part of October’s awesome sounding Mobility Shifts Future of Learning Summit at the New School, NYC.
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 [...]
Britain in a Day
Posted: November 14, 2011 in Co-creation, Collaborative production, DCRC, Digital, Documentary, Participatory culture, UGCTags: BBC, Charlotte Moore, Chris Mohr, Global Lives, Highrise, Life in a Day, Man with a Movie Camera: The Global Remix, Morgan Matthews, Video Nation
Saturday was filming day for Britain in a Day, the UK version of Life in a Day which is being produced for the BBC by Ridley Scott’s Scott Free company, and directed by Morgan Matthews. Like Life in a Day the project will be made from content shot by the public drawn in through You Tube. [...]
The Interface is the Message
Posted: November 7, 2011 in Co-creation, Collaborative production, DCRC, Music video, Participatory cultureTags: Aaron Koblin, Chris Milk, Crowdsourcing, Google Labs, HTML5, Johnny Cash, TED, The Mechanical Turk, The Wilderness Downtown
I just came across this TED talk by Aaron Koblin – artist and now lead on Data Arts at Google Labs. It’s a treat. Koblin whips through his work – from his data visualisation projects which began with Flight Patterns, through his meditations on the human and the crowd using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, to his standout [...]
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, [...]
Life in a day – online
Posted: October 30, 2011 in Co-creation, Collaborative production, DCRC, Documentary, Participatory cultureTags: Kevin Macdonald, Life in a Day, Ridley Scott, You Tube
If you’ve not seen it yet, you can now view Kevin Macdonald and Ridley Scott‘s mega collaborative project – Life in a Day – on You Tube. Alongside the film you can access (all ?) the content on the interactive gallery. It’s interesting that the two propositions are now side-by-side. When I saw the film in the [...]
