Interactive Documentary Links and Resources

by Christopher Allen

3 Useful Examples of Interactive Documentaries

Whalehunter

http://thewhalehunt.org/

Out my Window

http://highrise.nfb.ca/

Local Lore-  aggregates many new projects by radio producers.

http://localore.net/

Christopher Allen-  early projects.

Yellow Arrow - 2004

http://yellowarrow.net/v3/

Secret New York - 2005

http://yellowarrow.net/v3/projects_secretny.html

Capitol of Punk - 2006

http://yellowarrow.net/v3/projects_cop.html

POPCORN - tools

Popcorn.js - HTML5 javascript library for integrating the web into video production.

http://popcornjs.org/

Popcorn Maker - 

https://webmaker.org/tools

POPCORN - examples.

Magic Mad Libs (done with Popcorn Maker)

https://popcorn.webmaker.org/templates/basic/?savedDataUrl=lego.json

Arcade fire : Wilderness  Downtown (done with popcorn.js)

http://thewildernessdowntown.com/

ZEEGA

http://zeega.com/

Zeega Examples:

http://zeega.com/63840

http://zeega.com/profile/51aff1f28d34d47d12000583

http://zeega.com/51aff1768d34d46012008f70

DEFINITIONS

A web doc is...

Undownloadable

Function of network

User can communicate with a character

Interact w/ story or platform or both?

Presentation layer of the internet

Whole greater than sum of parts

Authored

A process

Dynamic

Doesn’t have to end

A platform to share ideas

A co-creative document

A participatory thinking process

A web doc is NOT...

Not re-purposed film

Not your advertising campaign

Not b roll

Not a place to dump your footage

Not a viral video

Not downloadable

Not confusing

Not random

Not just a database

PROJECTS

NFB - many, many excellent projects from Canada here.

http://www.nfb.ca/interactive

ARTE- many, many excellent projects from France / Germany here.

http://www.arte.tv/fr/toutes-les-webproductions/2213362,CmC=6845158.html

Tribeca Film Institute funded Films
Tribeca Film Institute funded Films

 

Navigation, non-linearity 

Highrise 

Capturing Reality

Hollow

Whalehunter

GazaSderot

Snow Fall

Welcome to Pine Point

Gamification / Choose your own Adventure

Prison Valley

Bear 71

Hunter Shoots a Bear

Inside the Haiti Hearthquake

Journey to the End of Coal

Apps 

Condition one

Rider spoke

Alma

Capitol of Punk

Generative Data Play / Visualization

We feel fine

Johnny Cash

Man with Movie Camera Global Remake

Bear 71

Popcorn

Arcade Fire

Collaborative Documentary Story Collection

18 days in Egypt

Mapping Mainstreet

One day on Earth

Through a Lens Darkly

INFO

Story Structures - part of a workshop at UnionDocs.

http://www.haikudeck.com/p/HwUaueF50e/interactive-storytelling

List of Funders

http://www.pbs.org/pov/filmmakers/new-media-funding-resources.php

I-Docs amazing list of Resources

http://i-docs.org/resources/

Interesting Historical Outline

http://momentsofinnovation.mit.edu/

Collection of projects supported by Mozilla hacks.

http://livingdocs.org/

Great Blog by UK researcher Mandy Rose

http://collabdocs.wordpress.com/about/

Tribeca Sandbox

http://sandbox.tribecafilminstitute.org/

MIT Open Doc Lab

http://opendoclab.mit.edu/

TOOLS

Awesome list of many, many here:

http://www.pbs.org/pov/filmmakers/interactive-video-making-tools.php

Scroll Kit (allows for NY Times Snow Fall style builds)

https://www.scrollkit.com

Tapestry Storytelling App

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tapestry-collections-tappable/id568898959?mt=8

example: “Fish: a tap essay”  By Robin Sloan

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/fish-a-tap-essay/id510560804

Learn to Code

http://www.codecademy.com/