The tricky topic of impact & interactive documentary
There has been much attention given to impact within documentary over the last couple of years. While BritDoc have stated in their recently published impact guide; ‘the power of film to change the...
View ArticleWho tells what to whom and how: The Prison Memory Archive
Cahal McLaughlin, director of the the participatory storytelling project Prison Memory Archive, has recently published a paper addressing the issues of co-creation and co-ownership of documentary...
View ArticleProjects selected from the first interactive documentary call of Catalan...
The Catalan Broadcasting Corporation (CCMA) opened last year the first call to coproduce interactive documentary. The projects selected were published a few weeks ago. Of the 28 projects presented in...
View ArticleCOME/IN/DOC Documentary Series – Episode 1 – Part 2
In our previous post we explained the story behind the experimental project COME/IN/DOC, and last week, during the 4rth edition of the i-Docs Conference we launched the last part of the transmedia...
View ArticleInteractive documentary – what does it mean and why does it matter?
Having just convened our fourth i-Docs symposium, it feels like an opportune moment to reflect on what is meant by ‘interactive documentary’ and why we at i-Docs have always seen it as a way of framing...
View ArticlePrecarious times and nonlinear thinking: Using i-docs to explore the...
by Ella Harris Precarity seems to define the contemporary structure of feeling. From the migrant crisis, to climate change, to intensifying austerity, the precarity that has long been a recognised...
View ArticleDo we need an i-doc sourcebook?
If you have worked in film/tv production you will know that the industry sourcebook is your bible: this is the place you go to to find where to hire your equipment, what is the date of the next film...
View ArticleData as a Narrative Device – ‘A Means to an End and not the End itself’
An interview with Janine Steele and Loc Dao on data-driven story-telling and emotional engagement During his stay as a Fulbright Scholar in the Digital Studios of the NFB in Vancouver, Lomax Boyd, a...
View ArticleThe technologies behind modern i-docs | Guest post from Michael Geraci
In the two decades that I’ve worked as a multimedia professional and educator, I have experienced the constantly shifting sands of digital platforms used for interactive media. I’ve developed...
View ArticleVR for News: The New Reality? | Reuters Institute Report
Reuters Institute have released a must-read report by Zillah Watson, who has led the editorial development of VR experimentation at the BBC. VR for News: The New Reality? examines ongoing developments...
View Articlei-Docs: The Evolving Practices of Interactive Documentary
Released earlier this year, i-Docs: The Evolving Practices of Interactive Documentary looks at the creative practices, purposes and ethics that lie behind these emergent forms. The book is structured...
View ArticleCurating VR: Catherine Allen offers lessons learnt
Virtual Reality is increasingly ever-present at arts venues and other cultural events – but curating it isn’t always an easy task. A recently published report by Catherine Allen and commissioned by the...
View ArticleStrategies of interaction, questions of meaning: an audience study of the...
Kate Nash, Leeds University, is an academic working within the field of interactive documentary. Her research so far has delved deeply into the world of audience studies, looking at what drives...
View ArticleVirtual Futures: A Manifesto for Immersive Experiences
In her research conducted during a fellowship on immersion with the South West Creative Technology Network, Julia Scott-Stevenson explores: How can immersive media create shared experiences that...
View ArticleThinking with i-docs: cognitive tools for uncertain times
As the field of i-docs (interactive and immersive documentary) has developed, it has become clear that key aspects of this ever growing field have a particular purchase on illuminating and...
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