Impact of Social Sciences – Clicking on the real: telling stories and engaging audiences through interactive documentaries.

Kate Nash, who’s work we read earlier in the semester, has a post at her new university (she was a keynote at this year’s i-Docs conference, one of the major international events dedicated to interactive documentary for makers and thinkers).

Impact of Social Sciences – Clicking on the real: telling stories and engaging audiences through interactive documentaries..

Sketch Film Assessments: Adrian

UPDATE: These assessment sessions with Adrian (you attend all of the session) will be held in 9.2.09, that is the glass walled meeting room in the student area of level 2 in building 9.

These are the assessment times and people’s for the sketch film assessment for Adrian Miles’ students (tuesday 2:30).

Monday April 28
10am

Arthur Cortez
Jackie Matthews
Ai Vee Goh
Mardy Bridges

Wednesday April 30
2pm

Aria K.
Nadya Kwee
Tony Mai
David Spencer

3pm
Weng Yan Yap
Linh Luu
Nadine Keegan

Friday May 2
1pm
Alois Wittwer
Prani Harrison
Bryan Loh Tze Yan

Uploading to the Web Server

What is being uploaded to the web server is a folder that is named firstname.lastname and inside that folder is the index.html and data folder that Korsakow export. Do not export your .krw file (the Korsakow project file) or your original video and thumbnails. They are not needed, and potentially a 10 or 20 minute upload will become a 2 hour wait if there is lots of high definition images and videos being uploaded.

ALL YOUR PROJECT NEEDS TO RUN IS THE INDEX.HTML FILE AND ALL THE STUFF THAT KORSAKOW PUTS IN THE DATA FOLDER.

Adrian: Korsakow Tips and Tricks

These are more notes from 2011, and are the various strategies and things I’ve learned through using Korsakow that make using the program simpler, or at least easier.

To really understand what you’re doing (if you are interested, otherwise potter around), then read the Korsakow manual, the faq, the quick-start guide, tips and tricks, and tutorials. These will be more up to date than mine below, which are largely based on the common problems that seem to have turned up in classes. Continue reading

Adrian: Korsakow Workflow

This is a cut and paste from stuff I put together in 2011. It holds good today.
This is one of the most important things to understand when using this software (and this applies to all projects on a computer!). Understand:

  1. what files are needed
  2. where they are needed to be
  3. why
  4. and have a system that is easy to use that achieves this

Then

  1. have a method for naming, storing, finding the media assets that your project needs
  2. keep your media assets in the same place for the life of your project
  3. same with your project and the export folder

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