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Documentary filmmaking is inherently subjective. The filmmaking team decides when to film, how to angle the camera, how to edit, and what narrative to put forward. At the same time, documentary filmmaking has a capacity for sharing people's experiences, ...

A Clever Label is an interactive immersive documentary pilot experience that introduces a novel data visualization mechanic ("Grapho") for curating and presenting connected graph data as simply as a slide deck. Inside the XR experience the audience is ...

Video-recording remote interviews can sometimes be necessary or desirable, such as in news broadcasting or documentary-making. However, remote interviews are not currently well-supported by digital tools. Unresolved questions about best practices and the ...

ONCE UPON A SEA is an immersive virtual reality experience that transports participants to the Dead Sea, and provides access to one of the wonders of the world that has become inaccessible in the past 35 years. The Dead Sea carries a rich history, an ...

"Rebuilding Notre Dame" is a 17 minutes long cinematic VR documentary tribute to the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. Featuring stunning footage filmed weeks before the fire and incredible access at the heart of the destroyed cathedral after the fire, ...

We argue for a new way of using pictorial publications to communicate the social, cultural, and material contexts in which "in the wild" research is carried out. Such research often allows for partial researcher perspectives, as the researchers travel ...

Technology companies are increasingly acknowledging the need to make their products usable for diverse users that include people with disabilities and aging populations; as a result, educators need to consider how to include accessibility-related topics ...

The emergence in recent years of consumer-accessible virtual reality (VR) technologies such as the Google Daydream, Oculus Rift and HTC Vive has led to a renewal of commercial, academic and public interest in immersive interactive media. Virtual reality ...

This paper presents insights from an ethnographic study with a diverse population of makers in the city of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. By engaging individuals, groups and communities who 'make' in different contexts, we reveal under-explored perspectives ...

Geometrical Hong Kong is an interactive virtual reality (VR) documentary that provides the audience an immersive touring experience of the lesser-known but visually stunning and highly functional architectural design of Hong Kong public housing estates. ...

Recent innovations in online, social and interactive media have led to the emergence of new forms of documentary, such as interactive documentaries ('i-Docs'), with qualities that lend themselves to more open and inclusive production structures. Still, ...

We present a method for civic engagement that uses interactive video documentary to capture discourses within focused settings (eg workshops or focus groups) and translocate them to public spaces (via interactive vox-pops) and online spaces (via an ...

We conducted a study to explore the values and qualities of 'grassroots documentaries', framed around the production of two parallel documentary films with a London-based opera company. A team of professional filmmakers produced one film and the other ...

Night Shifts is a digital magazine developed for the iPad that depicts articles and videos with a structured and explicit approach. The magazine-app displays seven different personalities that work over night in Zurich- the portraits' running time is 56 ...

While digital filmmaking has broadened the accessibility of documentary film and television creation, legacy production practices persist of first gathering information (shooting) and later structuring the audio-video narrative (editing). The open-...

The author is developing a new interactive documentary project entitled 24-hours.in (www.24-hours.in), exploring new opportunities for participation, collaboration and the potential democratization of documentary production. Utilizing user-generated ...

The author summarizes his experience creating a story-based simulation from raw documentary footage taken in the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. The use of Propp's typology to create a heroic framework within which to organize the material is ...

We present a novel approach to the creation of user-generated, documentary video using a distributed network of sensor-enabled video cameras and wearable on-body sensor devices. The wearable sensors are used to identify the subjects in view of the ...

ShapeShifting TV denotes an approach to interactive television programmes that can adapt during delivery to the preferences of the active viewers. ShapeShifting TV is based on a declarative language called Narrative Structure Language (NSL) and is ...

Safe As Mother's Milk: The Hanford Project is a web site and physical installation exploring the atomic history of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. For more than forty years, Hanford released radioactive materials into the environment on an uninformed ...