This is how the interactive documentary software Korsakow is described in the article by Anna Wiehl, which I think is a great description of what Korsakow is capable of, as it gets the user to connect a lot more powerful to the content, forming a stronger emotional connection to the documentary piece.

During this class I got up and showed a Korsakow film that I research about photography and videography and how the cinematic/visual location of Paris is beautiful. ‘The Whole Picture‘ was quite interesting documentary because at the start you’d didn’t really know what you were watching, or what the actual idea was. So as you navigated through each thumbnail and each picture, you came to the conclusion, (or what I came to) was that the it was just a documentary of visual beauty.

My groups project focuses on choosing your journey and what topic you want to watch and listen to through the interactive capabilities that Korsakow brings. Using the different in and out words as the topics of the thumbnails and making them the elements that flows the project. The most powerful element of this interactive platform is its ability to immediately shift the audience from passive to active, giving them the role and responsibility to control where the project takes you. We then created our own Korsakow project with our own pictures via linking a clustering pattern Korsakow film and then an alternating pattern Korsakow film.

Trying out Korsakow was weird, since it had a really old fashioned computer base with all grey colours and a couple drop down tabs, and opening new windows that were very basic looking at it, but quite advanced if you don’t know what your doing or what each box/function means. So for the next 30 minutes I tried it out and was able to make a simplistic film, which drove a both abstract and environmental interactive video documentary.