Reality hunger: The documentary form enters its golden age. Documentaries are at the vanguard of storytelling through media.
Transmedia
Can Interactive Films Hit the Emotional Mark? A First Look at the Projects at Tribeca Storyscapes 2014 | POV Blog | PBS
Link: “The five transmedia projects on display at this second installment of Storyscapes at the Tribeca Film Festival are not only more interactive and participatory than some of their predecessors, but they are also more emotionally evocative.“
Immigrant Nation: New tool to share and view immagrant stories
Immigrant Nation: “New tool to share and view immagrant stories”
Last Hijack Interactive Trailer – Interactive Documentary
Last Hijack Interactive: “Last Hijack Interactive is an online transmedia experience that allows you to explore the hijacking of a ship in Somalia. It is the companion project to the Last Hijack documentary, which opened the Panorama Dokumente program at Berlinale earlier this month.
Exploring both sides of the story, Last Hijack Interactive allows you to uncover the complex realities behind piracy in Somalia though the eyes of a pirate and a captain, an advocate and a journalist, a parent and a wife. Combining live-action video shot on location and animation, the interactive experience gives the user the opportunity to navigate the real stories of these people, building to the hijack itself and the resulting aftermath. How can one such event influence an entire society? What’s the global impact of a single hijack?
The project will have its world premiere on March 11th, 2014, at the amazing SXSW Festival in Austin, Texas.
The interactive experience is the counterpart to Last Hijack, a semi-animated feature length film directed by Femke Wolting (Viktor & Rolf ‘Because We Are Worth It’, Another Perfect World) and Tommy Pallotta (A Scanner Darkly, Collapsus) which had its world premiere on February 7th, 2014 when it opens the Panorama Dokumente “
T is for Transmedia: Learning through Transmedia Play
T is for Transmedia: Learning through Transmedia Play: “This report by the Annenberg Innovation Lab at USC came out in March, but I just discovered it. It offers a great introduction to Transmedia Learning and Play.”