From Zero (by Stefano Strocchi, Move Productions, Pulse Media) | Interactive documentary
juin 22, 2011 by gholubowicz · Leave a Comment
Désolé, cet article est seulement disponible en English.
VoW: Surviving The Drought by Duckrabbit
février 21, 2011 by gholubowicz · Leave a Comment
Here’s a new era coming on this website (hopefully). I’ve recently been working a lot on different project, and it’s time now to revive this blog and propose a richer content. A couple of years ago, I’ve created a video-group on Vimeo called « Photojournalism & Multimedia« . Strangely enough, I created it and let it live its life until recently when I discovered that 86 members had uploaded almost 240 videos.
I immediately watched the whole content, some are very good, others not so, but there’s an energy and a will to share that I can’t be insensitive of.
So I’ve decided to feature once a week my top 3 videos from Vimeo, but specially from our « Photojournalism & Multimedia » group.
Here’s the video « Surviving The Drought » by Duckrabbit. Here’s what the studio says about this production:
The 2009 drought in Kenya has had a devastating effect on pastoralists. Hundreds of thousands of cattle died and with them a way of life that had provided families a livelihood from the land. We met Lawrence in a quarry just out of of Nairobi. For many generations his family have reared cattle on the rangelands of Kitengale. Now he shift rocks in order to pay his way through University and the dream of a better life. This photofilm was made by duckrabbit during a duckrabbit photofilm workshop at the International Livestock Research Institute in Nairobi August 2010. The audio and photos were collected in less than an hour.
Photos by David White and the Audio and production is by Benjamin Chesterton
Stay tuned for more about webdoc (which is becoming to me i-doc, I’ll explain why), transmedia storytelling, interactivity and documentaries.
Cheers
Inside the Haiti Earthquake – Insidedisaster.com
novembre 3, 2010 by gholubowicz · 5 Comments
I went through a very interesting experience this morning when I visited « Insidedisaster.com« , a website where you can actually experience the way Haitians, humanitarians and journalists are dealing with the aftermath of the last earthquake. Produced by PTV Productions‘ Executive producers Andrea Nemtin and Ian Dunbar and by Internet Director Katie McKenna, InsideDisaster.com is neither a news multimedia production, nor a complete corporate assignment but a mix of both enhanced by a simulation game.
The platform is divided into two different part. The first one looks like a traditional website where you can find informations about the earthquake, the response of the humanitarian teams, the recovery process, but also informations humanitarian work and a quiz to evaluate your profile. (here)
The second one is a flash based website, built like a simulation/game, to provide a more immersive experience of what is the life in « Port au Prince » nowadays. As stated on the about page, Insidedisaster.com is
an interactive educational website about the Haiti earthquake and humanitarian work. The website is a companion to the three-part documentary series Inside Disaster, which follows the Red Cross humanitarian response to the January 2010 Haiti earthquake.
InsideDisaster.com combines content and themes from the documentary series with original material shot, photographed, and researched by our web team. The goal of the site is to help users explore the complexities of humanitarian work in the 21st century, as well as the specific challenges and experiences that arose from the aftermath of the Haiti quake.
InsideDisaster.com comes alive before a full documentary which will be aired on tvo in 2011. Here’s the pitch:
Inside Disaster follows international Red Cross disaster relief teams as they mount the largest single-country response in the organization’s history. Six hundred trained humanitarians from over 30 countries are on the ground in Haiti. Embedded in the Red Cross base camp, our camera had unprecedented access to the gripping stories, compelling characters and intense drama that unfolded after Haiti’s horrific quake on January 12 2010. This intense and compelling documentary takes us behind the headlines of a large-scale disaster to document the emergency relief operation from first response to recovery.
The interesting part is not the content itself – although it’s a very deep and well crafted one with a ton of detailed informations – but the sum of these different experiences which, to me, seem to be the first example of a full Transmedia storytelling strategy in the editorial world. We’ll have to wait until the documentary is aired on TVO next year to see if its content is redundant with the online production or not. But if it’s not, the whole experience could be the first of its kind and a strong model for photojournalist considering Transmedia storytelling and Multimedia.
A real Transmedia experience is rare enough to be noticed, and even though « Inside Disaster » would fail to match the Transmedia storytelling criteria, the project would remain nevertheless a significant breakthrough in terms of narrative experience. Sure, some will object that the lack of total objectivity and the blurry frontier between game/information/corporate worlds could be an ethical problem for the journalist and a misguiding information for the public, but I’m not really concerned by that if a clear mention is apposed to the different sections of the website and throughout the narrative line. Judge by yourself and let me know what your reactions are…
TimeScapes.org by Tom Lowe
novembre 2, 2010 by gholubowicz · Leave a Comment
TimeScape.org is an ongoing project put together by Tom Lowe, 2010 Astronomy photographer of the Year.
This is production footage I shot over the summer for my debut film, « TimeScapes, » a modern portrait of the American Southwest. I used Canon and Red MX cameras.
I hurge you to follow the blog here which is really captivating (at least from my point of view) or follow the guy on twitter. This work is beyond inspiration and take you back to our fundamental roots, the sky, the stars, trees and nature.
Now What Argentina? – North Carolina MULTIMEDIA
octobre 25, 2010 by gholubowicz · Leave a Comment
In 2001, Argentina’s economy collapsed, leading to deep economic and social disruption. Over the past decade, people have found new ways to adapt. Yet old struggles persist and new challenges emerge. Rooted in their culture yet looking to the future, the people ask – Now what Argentina? (link)
I warmly recommend you to take a look at the work Students of North Carolina University did.
UNC-Chapel Hill’s School of Journalism & Mass Communication collaborated with Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina to produce multimedia stories about life in Buenos Aires nearly a decade after the most devastating economic crisis in Argentina’s history. This month-long reporting assignment explores the history of the 2001 collapse, the adaptations of the resilient Argentine people, and the enduring culture.
The interface is very light, no fancy flash slideshow, but instead, a javascript based website, relying on vimeo for the video player part. « Now What Argentina? » is the perfect example of an efficient multimedia work, very well crafted, nice and clean, focused on the emotion off the story told. All you need to learn is there: simplicity and professionalism.
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