Chris let me know recently about a online documentary that he made titled ‘Thumb Candy’ on SMS text culture in the Philipphines that he put together within a blog. He gives Videodefunct a plug on the More about the project page as being an influence on using tagging and a blog to classify the video [...]
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
I did some research on this korsakow application awhile back and wanted to note the link. There is certain flexibility like creating rule scenes. From the abput page:
They are interactive – the viewer has influence on the film. They are rule-based – the author decides on the rules scenes relate to each other, he does [...]
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Not long after getting up the first prototype version of videodefunct published, the Palabras project appeared on the video vortex mailing list:
Palabras, which means “words” in Spanish, is a set of software tools and interfaces designed to facilitate collective self-representation, and promote social inclusion through participatory media production. Typically, in workshops at local cultural centers [...]
1000 stories is a project by Florian Thalhofer and Mark Simon.
These are vignettes of people in a type of environmental portraiture style. Florian in a vlog structure publishes candid interviews where he lets the people talk openly, along with short clips that he narrates their personal stories over the top of with subtitles in [...]
Thursday, October 4, 2007
ipods are great for research – I watched and listened to on the train a video download from the conference Beyond Broadcast 2006 Reinventing Public Media in a Participatory Culture hosted by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School. I checked out the talk by Peter Armstrong from OneWorld.net as part [...]
Thursday, August 30, 2007
What is Web Lives?
A series of exclusive three-minute online documentaries following people whose lives are shaped by the internet.
Each weekday from 1pm you will be able to watch the latest episode from one of the five storylines, getting to know and help our real-life Web Lives characters. The series is also interactive – with [...]
This quote is amongst some writing about a recent new media documentary master class on mediamatic. I liked the idea of using a blog as a tool to engage in a two-way conversation as part of the project.
Florian Thalhofer, who is the inventor of the Korsakow system, showed his latest interactive multichannel documentary project [...]
Creative Commons have a tool ccPublisher for tagging video and audio with a creative commons license:
“ccPublisher is a tool that does two things: it will help you tag your audio and video files with information about your license and it allows you to upload Creative Commons-licensed audio and video works to the Internet [...]
The BBC Innovation Labs 2007 covers amongst other things some valid questions on online documentary production. Note ‘UGC’ is an acronym for User-Generated Content.
Cross Platform Documentary: The growth of social media services had led to an explosion of new and innovative ways of realising and delivering documentary online. How can films be made, presented, [...]
