Artist

Interactive Documentary
"Global Digital Cities"

International Workshop

3 weeks : 2016/7 - 2016/8

Team of 4

Experience Design, Media Artist

“Global Digital Cities” is an Interactive Docu- mentary created in international artist team. The project is a docu- mentary itself and web- based media platform for creating interactive documentary using Javascipt and JSON. The project was hosted by Media City UK and Uni- versity of Salford, School of Arts and Media.

#interactive_documentary #future_cinema
#media_installation #annotation

category
international workshop
duration
3 weeks : 2016/7 - 2016/8
team size
4
My Contributions
Experience Design, Media Artist
#interactive_documentary
#future_cinema
#media_installation
#annotation
TASK
Produce multimedia projects using an interactive documentary platform and explore the definition of “interactive documentary” itself
OVERVIEW
“Global Digital Cities(2016)” was hosted by Studio for International Media & Technology, The University of Salford, MediaCityUK. Five international artists teams collaborated to how to escape linearly edited video format and to interactively engage viewers in creating and navigating the narrative. Following are the three sub-topics:

WORKFLOW
LEVEL DESIGN
Each city can have several scenes, each scene are tagged, and each theme also has tags. All the levels can be chosen as a sorting standard in the graph.
SCENE & SCENE EDITOR

Each city has several scenes. "SCENE" is the core of this interactive documentary. Scene is micro-unit documentaries which is a set of media data and can be grasped with in few seconds. Sound, video, image, and texts comprise each scene.

Each scenes are annotated with tags, which viewers can select with the graphic user interface to be shown on the final installation. The mood, dynamics of this small unit can be adjusted in JSON format. Tags can also be annotated here.

List of Scenes of City & Scene Editor

Examplary scenes.

GRAPH & GRAPH EDITOR
On Graph Editor, cities and themes to be shown on the final view can be chosen.
FINAL INSTALLATION VIEW
UI/UX SURVEY
UI/UX survey was implemented testing visibility of the editors and the graphs with adjustmenets.