Participation Week 6
Publish a review of a link to an article or academic writing related to this week’s topic.
http://i-docs.org/2013/07/31/interactive-documentary-and-the-future-of-journalism/
In view of the formal introduction to Korsakow and multilinear filmmaking from its creator Matt Soar, I have chosen an article that looks at the interactive documentaries, similar to the multimedia nature of Korsakow, and their relevance in today’s world in context of the current industry of Journalism. The article blog is ‘Interactive Documentary and the future of Journalism’ written by Jess Lingington.
In the article, Jess introduces the ideal of the interactive documentary by presenting the case of ‘Snowfall’ an interactive documentary created by NY times that garnered much attention due to its detail of production in presenting a form of current affairs. When reflecting this under the notion of interactive documentaries being the ‘future of journalism’, Jess comes to evaluate the statement by firstly acknowledging the power of engaging its audience however comes to cross the clear distinction of how it is technically longer and more expensive to produce than a piece from the current model of real-time news journalism. As such, in viewing it as an alternative to traditional Journalism, Jess calls upon this difference to assert the functionality and pragmatism of such an initiative.
On one hand yes it may prove to be extremely informative and deep in its analysis of a situation however, is it worth the forgone cost of a more efficient news production. As such, it comes to raise larger issues concerned with the process of journalism that entails the viewers understanding of the subject matter and his depth of involvement, holding interactive documentaries to have a higher degree of such practice.
Ultimately, Jess comes to evaluate the argument from a basis of proposed functionality. She does not disregard interactive documentaries as a means of information dissemination, however, she proposes until such a thing can match the efficiency of traditional journalism, it may not hold potential or possibility to fully replace such a paradigm.
Provide Progress Report on ongoing course work
Having realized certain clips of my footage to be less adequate for their prescribed themes, I have reshot the clips for my theme of perspectives and objective in view of what I felt worked better. Given such an open-ended theme, I had realized that my content perhaps needed a more distinct measure that translates the notion of either/or towards an audience. As such, my solution was to change the aesthetic and cinematic progression of the clips to better stand out and portray either quality of perspective and objective.
For example, my original Konstraint clip for the perspective of a house insect had to be reshot as I reconsidered the concept of embodying the subject matter through the camera in a way that clearly portrays the connection to the theme of perspective. As such, I had utilized more jittering camera movement and control in the pace of movement to mimic the behavior of the insect i intended to portray (which would be a house spider in the case of my film). In the similar vein i had reevaluated my other clips and as such have reshot some of them to better demonstrate aesthetically clarity whilst others I have entirely changed due to the lack of relevance I felt it had in demonstrating their relationship to the prescribed theme.
Personal Assessment Matrix
| WEEK | Analysis | Execution | Reflection | Learning | Total |
| 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 15 |
Provide link to form of multimedia
The link for this week is a video to a documentary by the counter-culture magazine VICE who are famous for their web-released documentaries and infotainment segments. What stands unique about today’s link is the fact that it is a consituent of VICE latest series dubbed ‘VICE news’. Unlike the conventional web documentary that may take time to produce and publish, which VICE is known thoroughly for, the new series of VICE news attempts to bridge the interactive documentary to meet the real-time journalistic expectancy. As such, they are now actively disseminating short documentaries on key issues that are happening as for current. With the timeframe still nonetheless stepping away from direct immediacy, it is interesting to notice how the channel has attempted to merge to two extremes with what can be said to be a compromise in the middle. Perhaps this is the concept of investigative journalism meeting a well produced film. I hope you enjoy.