Seven Digital Deadly Sins (link here) is an interactive documentary on the MIT docubase produced as a collaborative project by the NFB (National Film Board of Canada) and the Guardian. It centres around the idea of the seven cardinal sins of Christianity being applied to our behaviours online, with contributors to the project “confessing” their sins in the form of anecdotes based on their own online habits. The reader begins by watching a short introductory video and is then taken to a page displaying a spectrum of images representing the seven sins. The images can link to articles, videos or polls in which the reader can input their own habits and compare them with the rest of the world.
The part of this project that interests me most is the image spectrum itself. This page is highly intuitive and interactive, which draws in and engages the reader, and features a sleek and highly modern design appropriate for a discussion on the digital age. It is also highly modular. Each “sin” functions effectively as a discussion of its own topic, and each video, article or poll within that sin is an independent piece that contributes to, but does not entirely rely upon, the project as a holistic entity.
It’s pretty likely this project will be used in our own development; it expands on the idea of collaboration and viewer contribution we discussed in our first project (link here) in the form of the polls while also addressing the idea of modularity discussed by Manovich. Ideally, we’ll be able to find a way to incorporate the intuition and interactivity this project demonstrates into the form of a livestream or livestream-esque piece of media.