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Adnaan Wasey: "Later this month, teams of filmmakers and developers will be challenged to create web documentary prototypes — be they mobile sites, web apps, widgets, games or something we’ve never seen before — over two days of intense collaboration."
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Type:Rider is a multiplatform game whose name evokes its basic plan, a mix of mechanical writing (“type” of the typewriter) with the idea of a race (the “rider”).
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This is an online interactive documentary about how to make an online interactive documentary.
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Filmmaker, Atalanti Dionysis, has also created an excellent website around this web series which she hopes will be used "as a resource for emerging filmmakers and [she hopes it] generates conversation around transmedia & interactive multiplatforms for documentary and that it will act as a hub for collaborations and networking opportunities." Delete the scoop?
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Jaime Woo: "What if instead of acting merely as an online billboard for the documentary, the web itself was the platform?"
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A look at the National Film Board of Canada's support of interactive documentaries, in particular, the Toronto-based Highrise project. Delete the scoop?
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Rose Vincelli: "This program [IDFA DocLab] presents new non-fiction transmedia projects, each allowing the viewer to interact with the reality the filmmakers have documented and constructed" ... Delete the scoop?
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Mandy Rose: '“How does the documentary genre connect to visual art, music or the digital revolution? To robots, poetry and interactive installations?” What’s “…the link between documentary and innovation, experiment and adventure.” This was the territory of Expanding Documentary' ... Delete the scoop?
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Sandra Gaudenzi: "It combines game logic and immersive interface to tackle a serious problem such as offshore oil extraction: its dangers, its economic and ecologic consequences. More than anything it tries to find a new language to engage a web audience that is game savvy, but maybe not energetically engaged" ... Delete the scoop?
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Amanda Lin Costa: "Often shortened to simply Transmedia, it can allow documentary filmmakers to not only reach new audiences, but also to create unique educational components to enhance their film's message and provide ways to partner with companies and brands, which can mean welcome financial relief to lighten the burden of the high cost of filmmaking" ... Delete the scoop?
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Mark Wilson: "Remember when we said that Google Glass needed Gucci and Prada to reinvent its tech as cool? Well, apparently they took the advice pretty literally." Delete the scoop?
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Adnaan Wasey: "Later this month, teams of filmmakers and developers will be challenged to create web documentary prototypes — be they mobile sites, web apps, widgets, games or something we’ve never seen before — over two days of intense collaboration."
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Tim Adler: "More and more people are watching live-entertainment television shows while simultaneously interacting with the content on mobile devices. But could 'second-screen' viewing also work for documentaries?" Image: "Channel 4’s Embarrassing Bodies pioneered audience participation by encouraging viewers to take online tests" Delete the scoop?
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Patricia Aufderheide: "Media users want to do more than just watch these days. Unless it’s in 3-D or otherwise dazzling, we increasingly think we want to play with our media." Delete the scoop?
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Angela Watercutter: "TheBlu, a 'social digital ocean' that launched Friday, is an ambitious web app that turns computers into interactive nature documentaries" ... Delete the scoop?
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Arnau Gifreu Castells: "Mixing documentary (non-fiction) and game (fiction) seems a strategy that many interactive documentary producers are considering, because the fact of reality combined with a structure that includes the users and put themselves at the heart of the action, creates a much more hyper and immersed scenario for the interactive documentary and its participants"... Delete the scoop?
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Kyle Burton: "[Toronto filmmaker Ann Shin] and her small crew of a camera operator and sound technician followed an agent called "Dragon" from the North Korea-China border all the way to Bangkok with refugees who had high hopes for a better life in South Korea."
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An interesting look at the execution of a transmedia project under daring circumstances. 
Debbie Elicksen (LION)'s curator insight,
March 22, 11:08 AM
Improvising techniques and technology often makes almost as good a story as the story itself. Delete the scoop?
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Randy Astle: "As transmedia has moved past its buzzword beginnings, resources and organizations have sprung up to support the creative community involved in multiplatform narratives. The latest of these comes from the Tribeca Film Institute" ...
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A fabulous transmedia resource ... and, not just for documentary. 
Patricia Stitson's curator insight,
March 1, 8:45 PM
Beautiful website. Incredible resource. Huge motivator to attend the Tribeccas Film Festival.
I will spend hours on this website. Delete the scoop?
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Hugh Hart: "The makers of docs in contention for Oscar nominations talk about activating audiences after they leave the theater."
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How to convert an audience from observer to advocate for your cause. 
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January 5, 11:19 PM
A look at the different ways documentary filmmakers are using online engagement to further real world goals. Delete the scoop?
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XHIBITOR: "With the amount of time we spend online it’s no surprise that traditional narratives are morphing into a more web-friendly format" ... Delete the scoop?
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Sandra Gaudenzi: "Power to the Pixel was held in London for the 6th year in a row, showing the world of media production that transmedia is more than a trend: it is a logic of production and an marketing strategy that fits the needs of our global media world" ... Delete the scoop?
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Randy Astle: "One of the most intriguing things about transmedia when compared to traditional film, particularly documentary, is that through its multiple entry points and interactive experiences it has the potential to more fully engage viewers in causes" ... Delete the scoop?
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TOM ROSTON: "Documentarians (and the Writers Guild) have different opinions about who deserves a writing credit in a documentary, or whether the form merits one at all" ... Delete the scoop?
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Scott Macaulay: "Those looking for a great example of a documentary-film concept successfully realized online should check out Michael Simons and Paul Shoebridge’s Welcome to Pine Hill [sic], a powerfully melancholic about place, memory and the macro-economic forces that reshape both." Delete the scoop?
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Beth Carter: "A common hysteria surrounds the inevitable switch from analog to digital, regardless of the industry" ... Delete the scoop?
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Jesse Shapins: "[...] documentary is a relatively fluid genre that operates in so many different contexts at such varied lengths (broadcast news magazines, long-form series, live performance, "listening rooms," etc.), the people engaged in it are more open to redefining and experimenting with its boundaries than those who are entrenched in more established modes of documentary (e.g., classic voiceover-driven video docs)." Delete the scoop?
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Dan Schoenbrun: "And, while the discussions this year did focus on the issue of sustainability, there was still plenty of universal wisdom dispensed that social issue filmmakers – no matter their chosen subject matter – should bear in mind"... Delete the scoop?
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