WEEK 6 READING: Soar, Matt. “Making (with) the Korsakow System: Database Documentaries as Articulation and Assemblage.”

Soar’s anecdotal print “Making (with) the Korsakow System: Database Documentaries as Articulation and Assemblage” helped me understand the point of Korsakow. It’s use is predominantly for filmmakers to be able to create interactive documentary narratives that can be viewed from almost any computer (excluding some tablets, smart phones, other web devices) around the world with internet access, as it is a compressed sized download, which won’t overuse any internet, big or small. Soar, being one of the co-founders of the Korsakow system expressed his thoughts on the “dying industry” of documentary making on the big screen, and how he foresees the internet becoming the next source of media streaming/viewing and creating. This can be seen in some documentary producers such as ‘Vice’, to which only until recently, have been purely documentary makers who upload to the web (YouTube). The easiness of the Korsakow system also allows filmmakers with no knowledge of programming to be able to create online streaming of their interactive documentaries cheaply, faster & with ease, as it’s “drag and drop inter-face” caters for beginners. By reading this print, I could grasp the concept of Korsakow, and as to why we are learning it more easily. However, my use of it in the future is still questionable.

Find below the tutorial for Korsakow: