Development post – individual research
Through our week 5 to week 8 class, I learn how to use digital platforms and software distribute the linear stories of traditional documentary. Our project is in the production of content created specifically of nonlinear, it offers up a field of views through the small-scale work that we make, those pieces fragments in our project is contemplative, interpretive and exploratory.
According to Gaudenzi (who teaches art MA Interactive Media of the London College of Media), there are three different levels of interactivity that determine the type of documentary. There are semi-close (the user can browse but not change the content), semi-open (the user can participate but not change the structure of the interactive documentary), or completely open (the user and the interactive documentary constantly change and adapt to each other). I think our project is between the semi-close and semi-open because audiences can defiantly interact with the project we made, but they can not change the structure of the documentary. I think it because we are only using Korsakow to create the work rather than directly post it to the internet and let the audiences common. The semi-close documentary as what we looked in Class, “Are you Happy?”. An example of semi-open project Journey to the End of Coal ( 2008) from French production company Honkeytonk uses interactivity in a more integrated way. Same as our project, it allows audiences to think what do you want to watch next. Our project just lets the audiences have fun and really play into it. Rather Journey to the End of Coal allows me as an audience to choose the different structure of the whole project and the project helps me to observe the case Coal differently. And this makes me remember when Sarah Burke talks about the future of TV, what Steven Soderbergh wants to make is exactly match semi-open documentary, although he wants to make a television series app. But the ideas are similar.As what Gaudenzi mentions, we don’t have any completely open interactive documentary been realized. However, I think we should all think about what is a completely open interactive documentary and how can we make it.
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