Not your father’s popcorn
Mozilla’s Popcorn.js was officially launched last week, but it is already being heralded as “the future of online video.” Popcorn is an web-based HTML5 tool lets documentarians supplement their films with twitter feeds, Flickr albums, web pages, photos, visualizations, audio clips, video footage… and the list goes on. Last month, Mozilla brought together coders and...
An interactive documentary channel?
Last Friday, Google and YouTube announced plans to launch at least 100 online television channels by early 2012. According to the New York Times, it’s a risk to the tune of $100 million. The investments in the channels reflect Google’s belief that the Internet is the third phase of the television business, after network TV...
Tribeca New Media Fund
Last April, the Tribeca Film Institute launched a New Media Fund to provide startup grants to transmedia documentaries. Just weeks ago, TFI announced six winning projects. Exciting across the board, the TFI grant recipients provide a glimpse into the future directions of nonfiction storytelling. 18 Days in Egypt This crowd-sourced documentary will draw on everything...
Soul Patron
Soul Patron Filmmaker Frederik Rieckher created this interactive online documentary in 2010. Described by IDFA as “a rich media journey through the atmosphere and culture of Japan led by an exquisitely animated bunny,” it debuted at the IDFA DocLab last year. The author describes his piece: Mizuko Jizō is the guardian of children, especially those...
Interview with Zeega’s Jesse Shapins
Zeega is an open-source HTML5 platform for creating interactive documentaries and inventing new forms of storytelling. Listen to Jesse Shapins describe the project in more detail: Interview with Zeega co-founder J. Shapins by pazonada
Klynt
From Klynt.net comes Klynt, a soon-to-be released interactive editing and publishing application dedicated to creative storytellers. It was designed to help authors create immersive online content using the internet both as a distribution and creative space. Authors can connect to popular media platforms and social networks and explore new narrative formats. Klynt is an original...
