Paolo Favero, Getting our hands dirty again:Interactive Documentaries and the meaning of images in the digital age, Journal of Material Culture, pp259-277, 2013

This article talks about what an interactive documentary is and the scrutiny that arises in the making of this new visual medium.  Interactive documentary uses a variety of different materials compared to the normal convention when on a digital platform.  It forces the producer to contemplate how to incorporate these materials together (sounds, videos, images, texts, etc) to make this format.  There is also reference to a computer program called Korsakow.  This program can be used to create an interactive documentary with a variety of digital content.  It briefly discusses how the program works and gives reference to a few documentaries made in this format.

There are also other interactive documentaries mentioned in the article and the types of methods that were used to create these formats.  The article concludes that interactive documentaries could be the future venue for documentary film and for cinema at large.  But this view appears to be somewhat  flawed as this form of media making still hasn’t become mainstream.  This form of media is still a niche market and hasn’t become a common form of practice in documentary making.  Maybe this could change when more programs become available to make this format.