POV (perhaps the best independent documentary series on the planet) has a new idea-- hackathons: a space where they are trying to reinvent the documentary form and figuring out how interactive technology can re-shape the medium. They are doing this through what they call hackathons, and invited a few projects to participate. The one I'm interested in most is from, guess who, StoryCorps. See how this course comes full circle, magically, at the end of the semester? I didn't plan this, I promise.
Check out StoryCorps' hackathon project here.
http://sc.innovent.tv/Player-2/_deploy/
What do you think? Does it add anything to the sound?
Also check out the other projects in the hackathon, and read interviews with the storycorps team.
http://www.pbs.org/pov/hackathon/#.ULkS_IVECIY
POV has more projects like this to come, with a full-on hackathon happening in January.
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