Our project attempts to determine whether online, interactive, media such as interactive documentaries are more captivating due to the user interactivity, measure through clicks on the content, whilst being apart of the project. Which for Crash Course, is uploading your sound and visual or story via text and visual. The interactive media, which we have […]
CRASH COURSE ^ Website link ^ This week is for the finishing touches. Formatting each story window so that its uniform and has a description, steps to click the video and the Facebook page link. I also said that we should change the Google form part where it says country to: country (and more specific […]
This class we talked about our presentations that are on June 1st, and how we can do something that’s unique and captures the audience’s attention, keeping them engaged, but also that’s somewhat beneficial for us too. Luckily enough, Hannah informed us of another groups idea, which is to use the time after interacting with […]
The growth of user contribution as a form of interaction within online documentary projects is causing a shift in the way screen-based documentary is conceived. Viewers become participants, taking on greater agency in forming the experience of the work as they engage by contributing personal responses to the exploration of a subject. As this idea […]
After collaboratively talking to the group I was able to receive a sense of what they found, and how the journal articles and projects have impacted their thinking, and if ideas have been spouted from it. Olivia and Antonia did the same article called “The Living Documentary: from representing reality to co-creating reality in digital […]
Favero, P. (2013) “Getting our hands dirty (again): Interactive documentaries and the meaning of images in the digital age”, Journal of Material Culture, no. 18, pg. 259-277 I looked into a journal article that focused on the study of the visual field in online screen production specifically documentary. Making sure that audiences and contributors see […]
In Thursdays Week 9 class, we started off by collaboratively discussing our project Crash Course and how we can expand it into a larger interactive documentary. Utilising the same aspects of interactivity, user-generated/contributed content, variability, cross-platform and diverse content that is able to capture a unique experience from a wide range of audiences. In the […]
