mDocos

One World TV

2006-02-07T13:28:00.000+11:00

TV.OneWorld.net / tv
ONEWORLDTV
OneWorldTV is an open documentary platform exploring issues of human rights, sustainable development and the environment. It is used by a wide variety of individual filmmakers, non-profit organisations and community groups. Current themes include HIV/Aids, Trade Justice, Water and the 'War on Terrorism'.

Channel 4 - FourDocs

2006-02-07T12:59:00.000+11:00

FourDocs
is the place to upload or download four minute documentaries. Anyone with a story to tell or an opinion to voice can submit their film to FourDocs.

Channel 4 is a public service television broadcaster in the United Kingdom, but it does not receive funding from the Television Licence income. All programming is financed through its commercial activities, which includes advertising.

2006-02-07T11:50:00.000+11:00

story gallery

2006-02-07T11:36:00.000+11:00

story gallery

Personalize Media

2006-02-03T14:54:00.000+11:00

Personalize Media
The weblog of Gary Hayes. An extract:

What is Personalization?

1 - the filters through which we have services and media tailored to us and
2 - the design of services and content that are flexible enough to resonate with others on a one to one, or one to few level.

Real-time personalization: Where it get’s spooky. Based on what users are doing the interface or content presented changes dynamically in real time. Very resonant and where future interfaces and story-telling type applications are heading. Of course the more dynamic the system the more it resembles artificial intelligence.

North American centres that may be working towards second gen interactive docos

2006-02-01T23:28:00.000+11:00

www.storycenter.org
The Center for Digital Storytelling is a California-based non-profitarts organization rooted in the art of personal storytelling. We assist young people and adults in using the tools of digital media to craft, record, share, and value the stories of individuals and communities, in ways that improve all our lives.

http://www.cdnfilmcentre.com/training/newmedia.html
Habitat is the Canadian Film Centre's new media lab. Created in 1997, Habitat provides a unique training and production think-tank environment designed for emerging new media content developers. Based on a cycle of training, production and research, Habitat is an internationally acclaimed and award-winning facility.

http://www.afi.com/education/dcl/
The AFI Digital Content Lab (AFI DCL) incubates new forms of entertainment programming on digital platforms from idea to audience. Placing the highest value on creative excellence, the AFI DCL pairs design and technology experts with professionals from TV, film, games and an array of programming initiators in an R&D environment to adapt new and existing concepts to digital creation and distribution. In short, we create content for new and emerging digital media.

Participatory culture and podcasting

2006-02-01T22:11:00.000+11:00

iGeneration: Daily Source Code Evaluation.....

"Patterns of media consumption have been profoundly altered by a succession of new media technologies which enable average citizens to participate in the archiving, annotation, appropriation, transformation, and recirculation of media content. Participatory culture refers to the new style of consumerism that emerges in this environment." – Henry Jenkins

Podcasting is all about consumers becoming producers; as Henry Jenkins has argued, “…The Net opened up new space for public discussions of media content and the Web became an important showcase for grassroots cultural production”. Traditional radio producers did not take full advantage of the digital revolution and opportunities created by the internet. Radio’s only venture into the online domain was simply audio streaming of their broadcast station.

BBC: Video Nation and Creative Archive

2006-01-29T14:03:00.000+11:00

Had a good look around the Video Nation site at the BBC today. There's lots of great stuff there. People all over the UK filming themselves mostly and also each other, on topics of interest to them at the time. They range from a young girl telling us what she likes about Christmas to a woman describing her husband's decision to die and the circuitous route to get there. It's a great insight into UK lives. The audience can browse, search by keyword, send a page by email or add their thoughts and responses.

While the material is shot by the participants themselves, it is edited at the BBC which is working to keep the content compelling, but puts a lot of work back of the Producers. They'd be good people to talk to about how they see the future of this sort of projects - and what the possibilities are for people uploading their own edited material, how the content can be selected or organised by the Producers, and how more connections could be made between the mini-docos.

In a recent podcast I heard Paula le Dieu from the BBC talking about another interesting project; The Creative Archive, which should open up the BBC's massive archival resources for people to "rip, mix and share". There will be no Digital Rights Management requirements wrapped around the materials, and peer to peer distribution will be facilitated. Unfortunately and somewhat inconsistently, the project is currently restricted to the UK.

dfilm_moviemaker

2006-01-20T19:35:00.000+11:00

dfilm_moviemaker is a cute application. Choose the characters and context, and put words in their mouths. Email them. Made my first dfilm. Now I have to work out how to save (and blog) them.

Interactive films?

2006-01-20T16:11:00.000+11:00

This Samsung site, Anyfilms has a go at providing an interactive film. It follows the common model of providing lots of pieces you can sequence yourself to make your "own" film, but it seems more sophisticated than the ones I've seen before. Creativity is limited because you have no idea what the pieces are as you arrange them, and even the title is selected for you. Am still looking for sites where the viewer's own content can be brought into the mix...

First steps

2006-01-18T22:26:00.000+11:00

I talked to Mark Pesce on Friday. He is just finishing up at the Australian Film Television and Radio School and he has an interest in documentary as well as being a futurist and digimedia whiz. He talked about citizenship journalism being leading area in user generated content, and I found an online BBC film on this topic. Mark suggested looking at citizen journalism on Wikipedia. There's a lot there.

I checked out the Nokia short films (15 seconds?) made for mobiles as well as short films made using mobiles. A good reminder how simply a good story can be told.

I also found this delightful online film using google earth and bloggers all over the world.

So, first blog up and running! With help from Alex Hayes, mobile device enthusiast, mentor and colleague at the Department of Education and Training.