Any Media Documentary Workshop @ IDFA

Starting from researched content ideas, participants develop a media format that involves one or more parallel new media channels. Included is the way in which different groups of users interact with the project at the intended moments of contact. For every participant, the workshop results in a working prototype.

Focus

In this workshop new media are considered in two ways. In one way they are primarily media: tools to represent realities outside them in specific ways. Participants will research which new media work for their content ideas, and how to incorporate them.
In the other way, new media are treated as raw material for documentarists. They are a world of events, developments and data that can reveal stories that cannot primarily be told with the camera.
A special focus in this workshop will be on creative information visualisation: on strategies and means to make the digital realm yield stories. With visual means, through sound, or by other ways, but always primarily by asking the right questions...

How ?

The workshop will kick off with a symposium, organised by Mediamatic and IDFA, on the roles of mash-ups and data visualization in the documentary practice. Every following workshop morning will have lessons and lectures by guests that contribute to the IDFA festival as well as to the workshop. Every afternoon will be dedicated to conceptualising and producing a project prototype. All participants are assisted conceptually, technically and practically by lecturers, trainers, and assistants in realising their workshop project. The workshop concludes with a final presentation in which some of the results are presented and discussed in the context of the IDFA festival.
This workshop is part of IDFA's DOCLAB, that explores the border area's of new media and the documentary practice. DOCLAB's theme this year is the creative treatment of actuality using statistical data and new technological means.

Tools

Participants will be introduced to a selection of current online tools and services that together provide the essential range of Web2.0 functionality. Furthermore, participants are introduced to the sly and easy-to-use Korsakow System, that can be used as a tool to create databased online video projects, but also as a presentation device.
www.mediamatic.net will be used to document the development of the workshop projects.

Picture by Watz taken from Flickr

Results

At the end of the course, participants:
- Have worked out what (new) media can be of use in their documentary project.
- Have gained insight in a range of digital media practices that are relevant from a documentarists' perspective.
- Have broadened their scope on ways to 'creatively treat actuality'.
- Investigated online centres of attention for their project.
- Have developed a prototype, including an interactivity model and the contact moments between the project and its audiences.

Trainers, lecturers and assistants

Trainers are Jakob Schillinger, Florian Thalhofer and Klaas Kuitenbrouwer. And we are proud to present Cassion Harrison as a lecturer in this workshop.

For whom?

The workshop is designed for 16 professional makers, media artists, producers, editors and educators of documentary film, radio, television and video. Participants should have done the content research for their project, but are still researching on the right media format.
Please note that workshop participants should be residents of the EU.

The course language will be English. Reports on earlier AnyMedia Documentary courses at can be found here and here

Price

€ 420 incl. VAT
€ 300 incl. VAT (for people from new EU countries)

We have a scholarship available for someone from a new EU country.
Procedure for application: Send us an email workshops [at] mediamatic.net with your motivation and CV and you will be informed if you have been selected for a scholarship.

Information and registration

You can register online with our registration form. Please read our policy carefully!
If you have questions please contact Klaas Kuitenbrouwer or Deborah Meibergen at or by phone +31 (0) 20 638 9901