The world-renown International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam officially kicks off its 10 day program today, permeating itself across theaters around the city . Perhaps less known but more exciting for the ‘new media crowd’ is IDFA DocLab, a unique division and platform dedicated to showcasing innovation in digital documentary storytelling.
Whether termed ‘new media film projects’,…
How do we even begin to visualize and draw connections between the intimately complex relationship that exists between food and emotion?
Can we discover patterns amongst global food trends and global emotional trends? Could data visualization help us weave a story, and make use of the complex streams of data surrounding food and its consumption, to reveal insights otherwise invisible…
For as long as people have been around, the have used stories to share information, cultural values and experience. Most of the times this is done orally, but even in ancient times, mankind created drawings to visualize their information. With the invention of the printing press, new possibilities arose to share a story, either verbal or with drawings. Until today,…
Almost every story a journalist writes contains the five W’s: who, what, where, why, when. However, in the last two decades the journalistic profession and it’s employer were forced to make some new transformations. These changes have been caused by different reasons but one stands above the others. This one is even so important that Brian Boyer added a sixth…
Interactive data visualization has emerged as a complete new field within journalism. Large editorials like The New York Times, The Guardian, the Economist, the Washington Post all have special teams dedicated to data visualizations only. However, in the recent years, the storytelling potential of data visualizations has been debated.
Several speakers in this session, Everything We Know about Transmedia is Wrong are sharing their thoughts about on transmedia and what is about. What are the current views on transmedia and is it still a dominant tool in for example marketing and social events nowadays.
The AI game, which came out in 2001, resulted in an enormous success…
Doc Lab programmer Caspar Sonnen explains he is focused on “finding ways to reach an audience bigger than just new-media experts… the point is that there are great stories emerging online and we have to show them!” This seems to be the driving force behind the new Idfa’s Doc Lab.
On this very memorable Saturday afternoon the Red Bull drinking special Doc Lab guest and master storyteller Ira Glass, and the British wine-sipping documentary, clip, and fiction filmmaker Julien Temple were present at the Escape Club to talk about their work and to share their insights of film making and storytelling.