A book ‘Survival Guide‘ being brought together on making documentaries on the Internet.
This “survival guide” was designed to provide filmmakers, producers and journalists with some tools required to develop their own web-documentaries. How to include interactivity in your projects? How to reach a bigger audience? How to develop a creative funding strategy? How does the web affect storytelling? How to pitch or crowdsource your webdocs? To answer all these questions, this unique book brings together interviews with 30 world-known cross-media experts, producers or authors.
“We are all components in systems” the title used in this blog post is quoted from the documentary.
I need to check out this documentary in more detail from a number of perspectives. 1. The style 2. The content in relation to the Internet in one instance 3. reusing content. 4. Use of text on video
Listed here on the ‘Film Studies for Free’ blog by Catherine Grant in the post Split Screen Studies (2 NOVEMBER 2010) there is a bunch of references on the split-screen. There is also a video essay on the split screen technique embedded into the post.
Fibreculture journal Issue 18 has been published. There is a few things to look at in this issue including Fenwick McKelvey’s ‘A Programmable Platform? Drupal, Modularity, and the Future of the Web’. Journal abstract:
It is now perhaps a commonplace that digital, networked and informational media are extremely transient. They diversify in form and function at a dizzying rate. At the same time, they transit and fuse “social” and “natural” differences in a manner which reconfigures all the worlds involved. It is also perhaps a commonplace to suggest that some established powers have found it difficult to come to grips with this (although this is perhaps beginning to change). For many, from seriously challenged newspaper proprietors to established media disciplines, it might be time to pause for breath, if only for a moment—to regroup and adapt established practices and ideas, to count the survivors from among the old media worlds of just a few years ago.
Documentary YouTube bibliography list from Dr Strangeglove’s online YouTube bibliography compile:
Beattie, Debra. ‘Documentary Expression Online: The Wrong Crowd, A History Documentary for an ‘Electrate’ Audience.’ Studies in Documentary Film 2, no. 1 (2008): 61–78.
Hight, Craig. ‘The Field of Digital Documentary: A Challenge to Documentary Theorists.’ Studies in Documentary Film 2, no. 1 (2008): 3–7.
Juhasz, Alexandra. ‘Documentary on YouTube: The Failure of the Direct Cinema of the Slogan.’ In Thomas Austin, ed. Re-Thinking Documentary. New York: McGraw Hill, 2008.
Landesman, Ohad. ‘In and Out of this World: Digital Video and the Aesthetics of Realism in the New Hybrid Documentary.’ Studies in Documentary Film 2, no. 1 (2008): 33–45.
Sørenssen, Bjørn. ‘Digital Video and Alexandre Astruc’s Caméra-stylo: The New Avant-garde in Documentary Realized?’ Studies in Documentary Film 2, no. 1 (March 2008): 47–59.
Vladica, Florin, and Charles H. Davis. ‘Business Innovation and New Media Practices in Documentary Film Production and Distribution: Conceptual Framework and Review of Evidence.’ Working Paper, Faculty of Communication & Design and Rogers Communications Center, Ryerson University 12 October 2008.
Linda Wallace‘s latest video art work, ‘non-western | are you or have you ever been?’ which is broken up into smaller parts and distributed on YouTube. Each part is distributed as a separate web page. There is also a focus on tagging.
And the local, The Speculation and Innovation (SPIN) conference was held in April 2005 and hosted by the Creative Industries Faculty, Queensland University of Technology. – abstracts Themes: 1. Embedded knowledge 2. Knowledge impact 3. Knowledge relationships
Including the section details on Embedded Knowledge:
Discusses knowledge generation such as new discoveries; knowledge manifestation as exemplified by various types of outputs (exhibitions, performance, etc), embodied knowledge and the nature and authority of the knowledge claims that are inextricably linked to practice-based research.
Nate just sent me Lev’s latest book Software Takes Command which you can downoad as pdf or doc. It is licensed under CC and the book takes on some of the characteristics of software (from the opening page):
One of the advantages of online distribution which I can control is that I don’t have to permanently fix the book’s contents. Like contemporary software and web services, the book can change as often as I like, with new “features” and “big fixes” added periodically. I plan to take advantage of these possibilities. From time to time, I will be adding new material and making changes and corrections to the text.
So, like an rss feed I will need to go back for updates.
Sean sent across the new book by David Weinberger, Everything is Miscellaneous: The Power of the Digital Disorder. The summary from Amazon Books:
In Everything Is Miscellaneous, David Weinberger charts the new principles of digital order that are remaking business, education, politics, science, and culture. In his rollicking tour of the rise of the miscellaneous, he examines why the Dewey decimal system is stretched to the breaking point, how Rand McNally decides what information not to include in a physical map (and why Google Earth is winning that battle), how Staples stores emulate online shopping to increase sales, why your children’s teachers will stop having them memorize facts, and how the shift to digital music stands as the model for the future in virtually every industry. Finally, he shows how by “going miscellaneous,” anyone can reap rewards from the deluge of information in modern work and life.
I am Seth Keen, a new media lecturer and researcher at RMIT University. I use this blog to document my PhD research. I am doing practice-based research and use video to produce non-fiction media projects online.
