Are you interested in interactive, dynamic, cross-platform storytelling? If so you’ll want to join TFI and BAVC at the BAVC Producers Institute for New Media Technologies Public Conference Day in New York City this Saturday! The conference features a fantastic line-up of speakers covering everything from data mapping, immersive production, gaming, interactive media, mobile tools, Augmented Reality and much, much more. Come along to find out more about the emerging tools and platforms that are changing the face of filmmaking…

I’m afraid this doesn’t have the video I originally showed as part of the slides (eg. on slides like The Wilderness Downtown, Hunter Shoots a Bear and the Living Sasquatch Augmented Reality demonstration) so you’ll just have to look them up online and try them out. It’s much more fun to try them yourself anyway. Also, along with The Waiting Room, I highly recommend checking out Katerina Cizek’s Out My Window as another example of documentary storytelling told really beautifully…

We have recently introduced a new category in the Shooting People bulletins called Crowd Sourced Projects, recognizing that we need to create a new space for Shooters to promote their crowdfunding endeavors to the Shooting People community. I was delighted to moderate not one but two panels about crowdfunding recently – starting with Ain’t Too Proud To Beg at Sheffield Doc/Fest, followed swiftly by another one at CPH:DOX. The Sheffield panel was interesting because it was divided into three sections…

My final post in my guest series for the Tribeca Film Institute is about cross-platform documentaries. I look at recent examples like Out My Window, Prison Valley, Collapsus and The Waiting Room. Check it out and get your digital palette in rocking good shape!

Do you find the web a little overwhelming at times? Digital Bootcamp is a master class designed to help you and your film navigate the rapidly evolving digital landscape. I will guide you through a series of case studies and practical examples (with a focus on documentaries) to help you get up to speed with many of the digital tools now available to storytellers. This seminar will cover two main areas: Digital Frontiers – Why is all this important? What’s…

In my third guest post for the Tribeca Film Institute blog I look at the thrilling new(ish) world of Augmented Reality. If you have other examples of really creative uses of AR, especially in a storytelling context, please leave a comment, I’d love to hear about them!

My second guest post for the Tribeca Film Institute blog is all about data. Yup. Data. But before you fall asleep on your keyboard you should check out what this data can do in terms of storytelling!

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I just wrote a post for the brand spanking new Tribeca Film Institute website about how the Semantic Web and HTML5 is changing the possibilities for what video can do online. I talk about exciting new projects like ViewChange, WebMadeMovies and the very awesome Arcade Fire musical experience, The Wilderness Downtown. Check out the full article here.

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