http://www.sbs.com.au/rss/Blog/120686 The Webdox Conference wrapped recently in Belgium, and Sandra Gaudenzi of i-Docs has offered some illuminating thoughts on what the conference demonstrated about the state of the webdoc. http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/127806/Webdox-and-the-problem-with-interactive http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/127806/Webdox-and-the-problem-with-interactive Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:00 +1000 Sheffield Doc/Fest has just released its program, and I am green with envy over the fabulous lineup of interactive sessions. http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/127804/Sheffield-Doc-Fest-gets-interactive http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/127804/Sheffield-Doc-Fest-gets-interactive Mon, 13 May 2013 00:00:00 +1000 File this one under ‘I want to hug the Canadian National Film Board’. The NFB has announced plans to launch a global online documentary channel. http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/127752/The-NFB-goes-global http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/127752/The-NFB-goes-global Thu, 02 May 2013 00:00:00 +1000 Tribeca Film Festival is on now, and the inaugural transmedia segment of the festival has just wrapped up. http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/127722/Tribeca-Storyscapes http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/127722/Tribeca-Storyscapes Thu, 25 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +1000 The final day of the Australian International Documentary Conference (AIDC) began with the intricacies of filmmaking and ended with reminiscences from a pair of master filmmakers. http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/127528/AIDC-A-sign-off-from-Pennebaker-and-Hegedus http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/127528/AIDC-A-sign-off-from-Pennebaker-and-Hegedus Mon, 04 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +1100 Industry heavyweights deliberate the future of factual television at the Australian International Documentary Conference in Adelaide. http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/127520/AIDC-Television-but-not-as-we-know-it http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/127520/AIDC-Television-but-not-as-we-know-it Fri, 01 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +1100 What's new in factual filmmaking? Our correspondent reports from Adelaide, where documentary key players converged this week for AIDC. http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/127516/AIDC-Themes-emerge http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/127516/AIDC-Themes-emerge Thu, 28 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +1100 It’s time to spread some final documentary passion before the end of the year. It has been an exciting year in that most of the top docs were actually available to Aussie (well, Sydney and maybe Melbourne) audiences, thanks to screenings at festivals. http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/127239/Top-Ten-Documentaries-of-2012 http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/127239/Top-Ten-Documentaries-of-2012 Fri, 21 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +1100 The WA screen funding agency ScreenWest is stumping up the bucks for digital projects in the state in an impressive way. They’ve selected the best WA-based digital projects with crowd-funding campaigns, and for every $1 raised on projects that meet their target, ScreenWest will add an extra $3. http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/127225/ScreenWest-s-3-to-1-digital-fund http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/127225/ScreenWest-s-3-to-1-digital-fund Wed, 19 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +1100 Zeega is yet another of the recent proliferation of interactive storytelling tools spreading across the net. http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/127181/Zeega-remakes-the-internet http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/127181/Zeega-remakes-the-internet Fri, 07 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +1100 For anyone harbouring a desire to create a feature documentary for the cinema, tomorrow’s Think Big Documentary Masterclass hosted by Screen Australia is a must. http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/127149/Big-screen-dreams-Simon-Chinn http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/127149/Big-screen-dreams-Simon-Chinn Thu, 29 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +1100 Interactive documentary gets meta with newest contribution to the form Moments of Innovation. An interactive documentary work about, well, interactive documentary, it concisely covers everything that’s exciting right now about non-fiction on the web. The boffins at MIT’s Open Documentary Lab have partnered with IDFA DocLab to create the project, which is also currently in installation form at IDFA in Amsterdam. http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/127115/Everything-old-is-innovative http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/127115/Everything-old-is-innovative Thu, 22 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +1100 Following up on my previous post about the transmedia toolkit, this one goes back a couple of steps. MediaStorm has released its latest field guide as an ibook, and it contains tips for the earlier stages of production in multimedia documentary storytelling – before you get to the transmedia part. http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/127087/Multimedia-field-guide http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/127087/Multimedia-field-guide Thu, 15 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +1100 Anyone interested in creating interactive or cross-platform work should dive straight into this Transmedia, Multi-Platform and Convergent Resource Kit, recently released online. Put together by Dr Siobhan O’Flynn and Anthea Foyer, it’s aimed at Australian and Canadian producers hoping to venture into the field. http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/127049/Everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-transmedia http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/127049/Everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-transmedia Tue, 06 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +1100 Mobile filmmaking is taking off in a big way around the world, with more and more showcase events, festivals and groups emerging that are dedicated to the humble phone camera. One group gaining momentum is MINA, the Mobile Innovation Network Aotearoa. Founded in New Zealand, MINA is a global network set up to explore the emerging possibilities in mobile media and filmmaking. http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/127025/Mobile-mentaries-across-the-ditch http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/127025/Mobile-mentaries-across-the-ditch Wed, 31 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +1100 Luisa Dantas is the director of Land of Opportunity, a documentary that uses the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina to ask the question, ‘what kind of cities do we want to live in?’ Dantas and her team are now working on an interactive web experience that utilises the unused footage from the film as well as a range of other material. http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/126979/A-traditional-filmmaker-moves-online http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/126979/A-traditional-filmmaker-moves-online Wed, 24 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +1100 For anyone heading to the International Documentary Festival in Amsterdam this year interested in webdocs, you won’t want to miss the Interactive Documentary Conference. The one-day conference explores the future of documentary storytelling in the digital age. Topics covered include the rise of apps and touch screens, the secrets behind successful projects, turning data into stories and the tools available for interactive storytelling. http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/126977/IDFA-session-on-webdocs http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/126977/IDFA-session-on-webdocs Tue, 23 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +1100 I tend to judge the age of webdocs in terms of whether they are from the BTB or ATB era (Before or After This Blog). Prison Valley scrapes it into BTB with an early 2010 release date, which in my view makes it a grandaddy of the webdoc form. http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/126883/The-deep-history-of-webdocs http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/126883/The-deep-history-of-webdocs Thu, 04 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +1000 One of the big laments of placing content online is the difficulty of getting an audience to find it. With almost infinite online space yet limited time and attention of viewers, great material can sink without a trace in an ocean of middling websites and videos. http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/126843/The-Facebook-documentary http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/126843/The-Facebook-documentary Thu, 27 Sep 2012 00:00:00 +1000 The next crowd-sourced documentary is upon us, with the Australian-grown 11Eleven Project hosting a free preview screening this Friday eve in Sydney. Continuing in the vein of projects such as Life in a Day and One Day on Earth, 11Eleven called for participants around the world to pick up a camera on 11/11/11 and film something. http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/126801/11Eleven-preview-screening http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/126801/11Eleven-preview-screening Wed, 19 Sep 2012 00:00:00 +1000