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Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age
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a look at the creative and technical worlds of immersive storytelling
Curated by
The Digital Rocking Chair
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Anthony Kaufman: "This past April, several new media pioneers issued "The Web Documentary Manifesto," which, inspired from Soviet filmmaker Dziga Vertov's early writings, called for "a revolution" in storytelling" ...
The Digital Rocking Chair's insight:
An interesting question .... 
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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."
The Digital Rocking Chair's insight:
An interesting look at the execution of a transmedia project under daring circumstances.
Debbie Elicksen 's curator insight,
March 22, 2013 11:08 AM
Improvising techniques and technology often makes almost as good a story as the story itself.
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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" ...
The Digital Rocking Chair's insight:
A fabulous transmedia resource ... and, not just for documentary.
Patricia Stitson's curator insight,
March 1, 2013 8:45 PM
Beautiful website. Incredible resource. Huge motivator to attend the Tribeccas Film Festival.
I will spend hours on this website.
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Hugh Hart: "The makers of docs in contention for Oscar nominations talk about activating audiences after they leave the theater."
The Digital Rocking Chair's insight:
How to convert an audience from observer to advocate for your cause.
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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" ...
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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" ...
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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" ...
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Land of Opportunity: "The Center for Social Media showcases and analyzes media for public knowledge and action—media made by, for, and with publics to address the problems that they share." Via mirmilla
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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" ...
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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."
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Beth Carter: "A common hysteria surrounds the inevitable switch from analog to digital, regardless of the industry" ...
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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)."
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Abigail Maravalli: "Whether webisodes are released before a film, as follow-up to a finished film, or as a standalone project, they are becoming a viable way of starting and continuing public discourse. Here are three ways filmmakers are utilizing webisodes."
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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”).
The Digital Rocking Chair's insight:
One to watch!
Dolly Bhasin 's curator insight,
April 12, 2013 12:18 AM
Gamification is the new Mantra for elearning!
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This is an online interactive documentary about how to make an online interactive documentary.
The Digital Rocking Chair's insight:
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."
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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?"
The Digital Rocking Chair's insight:
A look at the National Film Board of Canada's support of interactive documentaries, in particular, the Toronto-based Highrise project.
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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" ...
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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' ...
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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" ...
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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" ...
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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."
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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"
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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."
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Bryce J. Renninger: "Can crowdsourcing become a viable means for producing quality documentary films? Crowdsourcing site Tongal, which usually works for brands but is now working for Oscar-winning production company Spitfire Pictures, is giving it a go."