I do what I do...

most recent work

2011-09-30T22:00:00.000+01:00

Latest videos

A selection of some of the short films and ads I did over the past 2 years.
The last video in the video list (10 years celebrating youth work) is not the final version. This is the 1st version and was edit in just one night, to be presented during the 10th University on Youth and Development Closing Ceremony. I will reedit this video and do color correction. The final version will be posted here when I have the time to do it. You may watch other videos I did (short movies, documentaries and ads) by clicking on Films & Videos on the menu above.

short films & documentaries

2011-09-29T20:55:00.000+01:00

Um gesto de amor
year 2011, duration: 1min.

This film was created for the One Minute Movie Film Festival - Portugal 2011.
The genre / category was free to choose and we took feature minute / fiction among the available choices (fiction, documentary, advertising movie, video-art and animation).
The theme for all this categories was: "Ainda, o Natal" that translated to English is something like "There's still Christmas".

Movie Synopsis:
"Christmas time seemed to be sad, but Joe (Zé) discovers in a simple stone pavement the most valuable of all gifts. - True love lasts forever."

Credits:
Script: Diogo Pessoa de Andrade
Photography: Diogo Pessoa de Andrade & Susana Jorge
Music by: FNors (Sergio Durán Toledano)
Director: Diogo Pessoa de Andrade
Editing & Post-Production: Diogo Pessoa de Andrade

Actors:
Diogo Ricardo Dias – Zé
Maria João Falcão – girl in the house
Pedro Mendes – man in the street
Suzana Branco - women in the street

RAGGACOIN
year 2011, duration: 57sec.

Produced during the DSLR workshop by FilmesDaMente in December 2011 (Porto).

Bom, muito bom, supréme...year 2011, duration: 2min.

This short movie was created for the "Fá-las Curtas!" competition.

Fá-las Curtas (Make it short)! is a TV show in RTP2 (national portuguese broadcast company - channel 2).

As a competition, each week two teams of young designers (18 to 35 years), a screenwriter and a director , must be carried out under the eye of the camera, a short film lasting 2 minutes . They have to deal with the same place, same actors, same costumes and accessories. In three days, participants must write their script, make the cut, meet the cast and crew, turn and make the final cut of their film. At the end of each episode, viewers are invited to vote for the best short film.

Director: Diogo Pessoa de Andrade

Script: Tiago Carvalho

Stars: Sofia Aparício and João Didelet

Estou para aqui assim...

year 2010, duration: 3min.

This is a short clip created for the "micro films for macro causes" film competition on the theme of "Poverty and Social Exclusion", included on the 2010 European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion campaign.

Shoot less than 8 hours, in documentary style, this film aims to be demonstrate that some things that for us might look simple and easy to achieve, might be almost impossible to others.

Simple things like to participate in this contest, requires that the participants know a bit on how to film, have access to a video camera, have access to a computer, know how to read and how to write, have friends to work with, etc..

In order to submit the film to the competition, participants need to have access to the Internet, introduce their names, address, telephone number, email address, etc..

Things that for many still not possible to have.

So we decided to ask those people questions like:

"Do you know how to make a film?"
"Have you ever been to school?"
"What do you need to make a film?"
"What is that you own? What is actually yours? What is the most valuable thing that you have?"
"Do you know how to read and how to write?"
"Do you have friends?"
"Where do you live?"
"What is your name?"
"What is your birth date?"
"Can you give me your telephone number?"
"Have you ever worked with a computer?"
"Do you know what the Internet is?"
"What would you do if you win 3000€ ?"

The responses were strong and deep, and it was quite hard to cut and select from the footage to get only 3 minutes.

Sometimes we forget that some of the most simple things in our life, are impossible to reach to many.

We won the competition and received 3000 € prize, which we decided to share with the persons in this video.

Original version:

Extended version (with scenes that were edited out for the competition release added back).

Olho de Boi...
year: 2010, duration: 6min 35 sec.

This short movie was created for the the 48 Hour Film Project, Lisbon 2010.

The 48 Hour Film Project is a wild and sleepless weekend in which you and a team make a movie—write, shoot, edit and score it—in just 48 hours.

On Friday night, the teams get a character, a prop, a line of dialogue and a genre, all to include in their movie. 48 hours later, the movie must be complete. Then it will show at a local theater, usually in the next week.

For this film we had:

Character: Sr./Sra. Paulo ou Paula da Fonseca, Porteiro (Concierge)
Prop: um espelho (a mirror)
Line of Dialogue: "Quem disse isso?" ("Who said that?")
Genre: Mockumentary (also known as a mock documentary or fictional documentary).

In about a week I joined all the team and did some pre-castings so we had enough actors to cover all the possible genres. The crew had never worked together and it was a challenge to all involved to be working for the first time in the same team. At the end we got the Audience Award (group A) for the Lisbon 48HFP.

Si esta plaza fuera una persona...
(If this plaza was a person...)
year: 2006, duration: 22 min 22 sec.

"An intriguing documentary on the relationship between people and space. A beautiful plaza in Barcelona - Spain, provides the back-drop for some colourful characters who each have a unique perspective on this communal space."

This documentary was wrote, directed, and produced by Diogo Pessoa de Andrade & Manula Sans, while they were studying in the digital documentary filmmaking course "Diplomatura en Realizacíon de Cine de Autor", organized by Observatório de Cine film school in 2006.

In 2007, this film was selected for the annual portuguese documentary film showcase - Panorama, received an honorable mention for post graduate film at the World Student Film Festival in Thailand and was selected to participate in the film showcase "Primeiras" + "CineLençol", organized by Movimento Acorda Lisboa (M.A.L.), being considered the audience favorite for best short film.

Frita, mas con ganas de vivir

year: 2006, duration: 4 min 31 sec.

"A french fried potatoe, that can represent any of us, fights and scapes the fatal destiny creating a whole new life from that moment forward."

Stop motion animation. This film results from a film school exercise (how can a external sound effect a character). This video was shot in 16:9 but, due to wrong encoding settings while converting it to web playable format, it was converted to 4:3.

A nossa escola...
year: 2008, duration: 4 min 31 sec.

"A documentary produced by young persons with the objective to move the parents on the importance of the school in the life of his children."

In this film I did the editing, post-production, color correction and DVD authoring.

Click to play

Fado vadio
year: 2004, duration: 28 min 05 sec.

"Fado is Fado and there are no ways to divide it. It's music that comes from inside the Portuguese soul. Even so, there are those who try to see divisions between professional Fado and amateur Fado. The former is sung by people who make their voice their way of life, people of talent and hard work, who give their best, elevating the prestige of Portuguese song in the outside world. The second is the amateur Fado, or Fado Vadio (Vagrant Fado, sometimes roughly translated as Street Fado) which is characterized by the place where it was born and sang for so long, the streets! Though it is an expression that is in risk of vanishing. It's one of the most traditional forms of Fado, but nowadays fadistas cannot sing in the middle of the streets, it's illegal! Still there is a man who decided to make his voice his way of life and insists in keeping this tradition alive. His name is Toni Banza (Antonio Banza Parreira)."

This film was shot with a second hand video camera (a Sony Digital 8 - my first video camera) bought in Feira da Ladra (flea market in Lisbon - Feira da Ladra means more or less 'market of thieves'). It was in one of those moments when you walk down the street and... the great performance is taking place and you have a video camera in your hand! This is a work in progress and I aim to produce a documentary about the lives of the characters in this video. Still, there was a moment when I decided to put the project aside due to the recorded sound quality being very poor. But it is not forgotten…

ads & publicity

2011-09-28T21:30:00.000+01:00

Stand Up 2010

year: 2010

This video was created with the participants of the University on Youth and Development. The UYD media team was challenged to create a video for the Stand Up and Make a Noise international campaign.

With almost three hundred young people from 80 countries meeting in Spain in the framework of the international year of youth to discuss sustainable development as a tool to achieve the MDGs, it was clear that there was a clear opportunity for us to stand together to make noise. Through a short and powerful video, participants of the University on Youth and Development vented their frustration at the lack of youth engagement when discussing revisions of efforts to achieve the MDGs. For more information, please visit our website at: www.uyd.me

JSD - Juventude Social Democrata

year: 2009

These ads were part of the JSD campaign for Portugal’s parliamentary elections, held on September 27, 2009. JSD is the youth organization that belongs to the liberal-centrist Social Democratic Party (PSD).

The starting point was the fact that voter apathy is a problem Portugal has, especially when it comes to young people. Directed to young people (in particular those who feel disconnected or disenfranchised with politics) and aiming to get them to vote in parliamentary elections and to participate more in politics, these videos use a strong and clear message, persuading them to have an active role in society, engaging with them on a rational argumentative level and to show why exactly their voice matters. The slogans we created are:

1st video : “If talk is easy, make yourself be heard”
2nd video: “A new generation of politicians is born”

For both videos, I wrote the scripts, directed and did the editing and post-production.

Note: The relation between me and JSD is strictly professional and does not represent my political preferences.

CNJ - Conselho Nacional da Juventude

year: 2008 / 2009

CNJ Portuguese campaign to encourage young people to vote in 2009 European elections. The initiative aimed to help raise interest and boost the participation of young people in the June poll, stressing the importance of young people's participation in the EU elections. For this, I worked the idea that voting is part of us as much as the natural capacity to hear, talk and see. If we lack one of those 3 capacities our lives are quite affected an the same applies to voting.

"without voice you can't speak, without eyes you can't see, without hears you can't hear... without vote you can't decide!"

The second video was created to call young people to participate in the European Youth Week. During this event young people came together to discuss their future. They worked together in order to compose a document of principles (proposals) about youth policies in the EU, to be presented to the representatives of the European Parliament, the European Youth Forum and European Commission (whom finally is responsible to take decisions).

The main character in the second video is a young person who asks himself why should he care about the European youth policies, saying that is all crap. But he loses control on his life. The video works the idea that if you do not participate in the decision making, others will and their decisions will affect your life.

Tux & Gill - advertising agency

year: 2007 / 2008

The videos here presented were produced when I was working at Tux & Gill.

I collaborated with Tux & Gill from 2007 to 2009. I was responsible for the audiovisual and multimedia division, including photography, video editing and post-production.These videos result from the creative process between me and the creative director Pedro Pissarra.

Vodafone Portugal

year: 2007

Ads produced for Vodafone Portugal, a full subsidiary of the Vodafone Group. These adverts promoted Vodafone Portugal campaigns and were used in the Vodafone Portugal stores. I worked with Vodafone Portugal in 2007 trough YDreams (a Portuguese company that creates interactive experiences based on advanced technology and design).

Intermitentes

Manifesto on the status of the artist

year: 2008

These two videos were created in collaboration with many professionals from the audiovisual, performing arts, painting and sculpture, circus, music fields. Artists and technicians in general (named intermittent workers due to their intermittent professional life style).

Part of a campaign created by Plataforma dos Intermitentes (a group or framework composed by people from the groups listed above), which alerts for the unique working conditions of these professionals and aims to ensure them access to social security, health insurance and fair and flexible taxation and pension schemes, regardless of their contractual situations. They defend the idea that a core of minimum employment rights should be guaranteed, regardless of their employment status.

These should take account of the specific characteristics of the sector and the need to uphold the status of the artist. The aim should be to guarantee core labour rights for all performing artists, whether employees or “self-employed”, (in particular the right to negotiate and benefit from collective agreements).

Both videos were directed and shoot by me and Cátia Salgueiro. The first video (official one) was edit by Bruno Cabral and the second one by me in just one night (is a draft).

Forum for a Just Peace in the Middle East

year: 2007

Video produced for TVE (national state-owned public-service television broadcaster in Spain). An initiative of the Madrid Social Forum and other social networks, organisations and actors in Spain, the Middle East and Europe. This Forum took place from the 14th to the 16th of December 2007, in Madrid - Spain. One of the major goals was the mobilisation of the society in favour of Peace.

This video is a mix of motion graphics, archive video footage and peaces of a documentary shoot in Palestine.

Border Crossing Media

SOLUTIONS TO COMMUNICATE EFFECTIVELY ONLINE

year: 2007

Border Crossing Media is a young and innovative company based in the UK that draws upon the knowledge and skills of a globally distributed team. We are a collective of independent analysts, coders, designers, producers, writers and visual communication specialists. Founded in 2006, our mission is to help our clients communicate effectively online.

BioBlitz - Portugal

A BioBlitz, also written without capitals bioblitz, is a special type of field study, where a group of scientists and volunteers conduct an intensive 24-hour (or 48 hour) biological inventory, attempting to identify and record all species of living organisms in a given area. The area chosen is often an urban park or a nature reserve of some sort.

youth

2011-09-27T22:08:00.000+01:00

University on Youth and Development

year: 2006-2009

The University on Youth and Development is a space for debate, training, exchange of experiences and affirmative action concerning Global Youth Cooperation. Global Youth Cooperation is a concept that has emerged from within the youth movement worldwide during the decade of nineties. It is young people and youth organisations collective response to the challenges of globalisation. The North-South Centre is recognised by its partners in the youth movement as having a clear and particular role in coordinating efforts for effective training and in creating a framework to enhance the role of youth in North-South Cooperation and in Global Youth work. This University, with its partnership between intergovernmental, governmental, civil society and local and regional representatives, (reflecting the quadrilogue) and its diverse programme, provides a key space in performing that role.

The videos here presented are the result of the media team's work. The media team is composed by UYD participants (usually 3 to 5 participants / young media makers) that use media and audiovisuals as a tool to work in their associations. Besides covering the UYD activities, the media team aims:

Empower people with skills to use media, as a tool for their development and that of their communities;
Enable people of all a abilities and backgrounds to have access to a positive medium to express their thoughts, feeling and ideas;
Produce media products with ethical values, offering a non-compromised benefit to individuals, organizations and the wider community.
Learn about team work in a real intensive environment and develop higher-level skills by participating in a cooperative activity;
Promote intercultural dialogue.

I have been leading the media team since the beginning an I have learned about human relations, stress management, patience and on how to manage groups and produce contents with the least available resources.

More videos produced by the UYD media team can be found here: http://blip.tv/uyd

European Youth Week - Portugal

year: 2008

The European Youth Week is a multilateral youth encounter which brings young people together. Working in small groups on topics like intercultural learning, communication and values the participants will exchange opinions, getting to know other points of view and establishing new relationships. Arrived at its fourth edition, the European Youth Week focused on the theme of “intercultural dialogue”. Concerts, festivals, video and photo competitions, exhibitions and debates with EU politicians: these and many others activities were organised on a local, regional, and national level in the 27 EU Member States, in Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, and Turkey. These videos were produced for the Portuguese National Youth Council (CNJ) during the National event that took place in 2008 from November 7 to 9, in the city of Portimão.

rEDHe - Symposium: Human Rights Education in Portugal

year: 2008, duration: 16 min 45 sec.

REDHE - Rede para a Educação dos Direitos Humanos (Human Rights Education Network) believes that earning about human rights is the first step toward respecting, promoting and defending those rights. The Human Rights Education Network was established in order to facilitate the teaching of human rights. Designed to support teachers through college as well as educators working in non-formal settings such as community associations and cultural forums, REDHE is dedicated to promoting the human rights principles and positive value system that are set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

politics

2011-09-26T09:59:00.000+01:00

Legislativas 2011 - Bloco de Esquerda Portuguese legislative election campaign 2011

Left Bloc (Portuguese: Bloco de Esquerda, sometimes translated as leftist bloc or left-wing bloc, is a Portuguese left-wing political party founded in 1999. It is sometimes abbreviated to B.E. (punctuated) but always spoken in its full name. Notable members include Fernando Rosas, Francisco Louçã and Miguel Portas (brother of right-wing leader Paulo Portas).

The Left Bloc (B.E.) is supported by independents and a number of left-wing political groups: the People's Democratic Union (União Democrática Popular, UDP), Revolutionary Socialist Party (Partido Socialista Revolucionário, PSR (ex-LCI)), and Politics XXI (Política XXI, PXXI).

The bloc is a founding member of the European Anticapitalist Left and participates in the Party of the European Left.

Francisco Louçã He is the candidate of the Left Bloc. He is a Professor of Economics an economist and a Left Bloc member of the Portuguese parliament.

note: My contribution to this campaign was strictly professional. I do not support any political party and I have no relationship to any political or religious entity. I work as a freelancer.

Presidenciais 2011 - Portugal's presidential election 2011

Videos created for the Portuguese presidential candidate Manuel Alegre campaign. The 2011 Portuguese presidential election are to be held in the beginning of 2011.This is a selection of the videos I created (since November 2010).

note: My contribution to this campaign was strictly professional. I do not support any political party and I have no relationship to any political or religious entity. I work as a freelancer.

motion graphics

2011-09-25T00:27:00.000+01:00

Computer generated motion graphics are graphics that use video and/or animation technology to create the illusion of motion or a transforming appearance. These motion graphics are usually combined with audio for use in multimedia projects. Motion Graphics include animations, movies, etc.

note: The Terrakota animation was created by Raquel Amaral. I helped with programming, optimization and sound mix.

All the other animations were created by me.

WHO - your life into a movie

2011-09-24T15:11:00.000+01:00

Project URL:

http://www.arte-digital.org/who-project/

Project Description:

“WHO – your life into a movie” is a brand new cross media concept that merges traditional TV with user interaction and co-creation (user-generated content). Based on traditional episodes of dramatic fiction presented in serial formats the WHO project aims to formalise a loose interactive framework that will allow anyone to contribute and participate in the story we will create together.

In each episode a new character is introduced to the audience. The audience is invited to participate by submitting a short video (which can be produced with mobile phones, web cams or with a video camera) suggesting the personality or actions of a new character. Ideas generated by the audience are then developed by a creative team and an actor/actress will be selected to play the role created.

Being based on a novel structure, the WHO project aims to create a relationship between the audience and the novels main characters. By allowing the audience to create the profiles of new characters , people can directly influence the narrative told.

The idea of having a creative role in the process is the hook to engaging the audience. High quality submissions will be invited to not only participate in the development process but also act and play the role of character's created. Who wouldn’t like to act side by side with their favourite actors/idols?

Therefore, online version also act as a talent finder and offer people real-world production experience, as each contribution is similar to an open casting session where new ideas and talent can be found.

The TV version is a standard novel and presents the plot-line of the series as a cohesive linear narrative. The online version is based on a branching narrative model (non-linear narrative). It differs from the TV version (standard linear narrative) by providing additional contents (additional scenes/stories that expand the main narrative). The online version will allow users (the audience) to follow one character/story at a time and “jump” between stories by clicking on relevant and significant objects on the screen. This feature allows users to realise that there are elements in the main narrative (on TV) that are a direct result of another story, and this effects the direction of the main narrative and offers viewers a reason to engage by offering further content and "gameplay" - within the video.

more info at: www.arte-digital.org

WHO - your life into a movie by Diogo Pessoa de Andrade

is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Portugal License.
Based on a work at arte-digital.org.

photography

2011-09-23T00:17:00.000+01:00

Here you can see some of my photos. Bellow this interactive photo album you will find a list of some of my facebook photo albums. I have been publishing more photos in facebook than in this website so you might prefer to look at those first. You don't have to login to FB to see my photos, just click on the thumbnails bellow.

My facebook photo albums:

click on the images to open the albums

October 15, 2011 - manifestation Lisbon

miscellaneous

metropolis frames

Protesto Geração à Rasca

Travel

transmedia

2011-09-22T03:11:00.000+01:00

Here you can find list of some of my transmedia / crossmedia projects:

Project URL: http://www.arte-digital.org/who-project/

Project Description:

"WHO – your life into a movie" is a brand new cross media concept that merges traditional TV with user interaction and co-creation (user-generated content). Based on traditional episodes of dramatic fiction presented in serial formats the WHO project aims to formalise a loose interactive framework that will allow anyone to contribute and participate in the story we will create together.

In each episode a new character is introduced to the audience. The audience is invited to participate by submitting a short video (which can be produced with mobile phones, web cams or with a video camera) suggesting the personality or actions of a new character. Ideas generated by the audience are then developed by a creative team and an actor/actress will be selected to play the role created.

Being based on a novel structure, the WHO project aims to create a relationship between the audience and the novels main characters.By allowing the audience to create the profiles of new characters , people can directly influence the narrative told.

The idea of having a creative role in the process is the hook to engaging the audience. High quality submissions will be invited to not only participate in the development process but also act and play the role of character's created. Who wouldn't like to act side by side with their favourite actors/idols? Therefore, online version also act as a talent finder and offer people real-world production experience, as each contribution is similar to an open casting session where new ideas and talent can be found.

The TV version is a standard novel and presents the plot-line of the series as a cohesive linear narrative. The online version is based on a branching narrative model (non-linear narrative). It differs from the TV version (standard linear narrative) by providing additional contents (additional scenes/stories that expand the main narrative).

The online version will allow users (the audience) to follow one character/story at a time and "jump" between stories by clicking on relevant and significant objects on the screen. This feature allows users to realise that there are elements in the main narrative (on TV) that are a direct result of another story, and this effects the direction of the main narrative and offers viewers a reason to engage by offering further content and "gameplay" - within the video.

more info at: www.arte-digital.org

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5000e ghost project

Project URL: http://wwdigital.org/5000c/

Project Description:

5000e ghost project is a pilot project I created as a resource for film students during an international training course on creating interactive cross-media films. The course "Anything is a Storytelling Device?!" aims to teach students from traditional film schools on how to create interactive cross-platform film products.

Here you can read more about this training course (browse down and look for "Anything is a Storytelling Device?!") link: http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/media/training/list/initial/index_en.htm

I was invited as an external expert to present the WHO project (an interactive cross-media pilot project) as a case study, and to help the students designing their ideas by responding to questions such as "- What can be done in this field, and how?" (which was an answer quite difficult to respond!).

In order to try to explain what can be done, I created a list of case studies which I published in my blog. Then I decided to create a ghost project (a simulation) to show to the students how I would create a cross-media film product as well as to present some of the available tools they can use on their own projects. In order to achieve that, I imagined a virtual comic book where the user can click on the draws and watch videos (webisodes). But besides the WHO project, I had nothing that could be used as content for the virtual comic book. While looking for contents, I came across LUMINA web series and I loved it! After contacting LUMINA's director Jennifer Thym, I started to develop the virtual book using LUMINA webisodes.

The main idea of the ghost project consists in distributing real comic strips for free (published on a recurring basis) aiming to lead the readers to the online version so they can watch the full story (webisodes).

Besides being distributed for free, comic strips will be included in newspapers and/or magazines (in the comics section) which will be released periodically (the continuity strips feature the serialized narrative). The online version works just like a real comic book, where the user can turn the pages, but allows all the interactivity available for web based products.Once this novel is a multi-layered narrative, it has other narratives that run parallel to (and are linked to) the main narrative. By clicking on specific pictures or characters, users can go backwards, or forwards, or sideways, navigating/jumping trough the comic book pages.The real comic strips (the printed ones) contain special symbols. If the user puts these symbols in front of a webcam, Augmented Reality is generated. This allow readers to view extra scenes from the web series appearing on the books or magazines (or any paper).You can have a better idea of what I am trying to explain if you check this link:http://arte-digital.org/5000c/

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Na pele de...

Project URL: http://www.arte-digital.org/na_pele_de/

Project Description:

"Na pele de..." (in the skin of...) is an interactive cross-platform film/game created by my students from the Multimedia Authoring Tools module (EPAD - Escola Profissional de Artes Tecnologias e Desporto). During the classes (36 hours of classes + 8 hours for filming) they learned on how to use some some multimedia authoring tools (Adobe Premiere, Adobe DVD Encore, Adobe Phtoshop, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Flash and Adobe Dreamweaver) and how could they combine those tools to create interactive films. During the classes we discussed the main idea for the interactive film/game and we wrote it. Then we created the interactive flowchart for the interactive narrative. After that, we spend one day shooting. They did the acting based on the script main guidelines, improvising from there.

click here to go to the interactive film web page.

APMP - Prémio Nacional Multimédia - PRÉMIO SONY ESCOLAS (HD)

collaboration

2011-09-22T02:32:00.000+01:00

The World Hour Project

This video was created for the world hour project by me and my friend João Abel. The world hour project is an invitation to filmmakers around the world to get engaged and collaborate on a series of short films. each of these single topic films will be shot during a single hour simultaneously around the world. It provides for filmmakers from each of the twenty-four time zones to collaborate simultaneously during one predetermined hour. They will explore and reveal their insights on a single topic, with each contributor adding another dimension to that film's particular subject matter. A new theme will be shot every four to six weeks so we can maintain a continuous dialogue about what moves the globe and the filmmakers who live here, one hour at a time.

These one-hour slices of global history will be archived here and available to the world for viewing at any time.
site: theworldhourproject.com

Bellow is a compilation (the first hour of time lapse footage) of the work of eight filmmakers shooting simultaneously for a single hour starting at midnight UTC October 2nd. The request was to shoot a time lapse of a place or landmark that best describes where you are. This compilation was created by Vince Gaffney.

experimental

2011-09-21T21:42:00.000+01:00

Timing the time

year: 2008, duration: 03 min 42 sec.

This isn't anything special. Just a film exercise about time. There is no plan. I took a stroll around Lisbon City, looking for time. And there it was, here and there, everywhere... It is an experiment where I try to represent timing inside time and play with rhythm and tempo. While editing, I decided to alternate short clips with long clips so the viewer experiments emotions caused by time passing (like stress caused by fast movement or extreme long periods of slow movement).

Cursor game revenge

year: 2006, duration: 00 min 48 sec.

This is an film exercise where the goal was to demonstrate how an character can interact and influence the other character being in a different physical space and/or chronological moment.

The sound quality is really bad. I think that my hold Sony Digital 8 (a second hand camera) was trying to say me something like... "- Give me a break please!". So try to forget about the sound (if you can) and focus on the main idea.

OÏO

year: 2005, duration: 09 min 25 sec.

OÏO : the cinepainting is a film created by Simon Goulet.

This is not the original version of OÏO. This is the result of a film school exercise where I had to create the film soundtrack without knowing the original film soundtrack. This film is based in movement, rhythm and color. Besides its beauty and artistic excellence, it is perfect for film students, musicians and composers to use it as a training resource to practice by creating new soundtracks. By doing that they learn about respecting timings, create emotions, and to tell a story by using sound.

"Painting is movement. Mid-flight between the tool and the canvas, OÏO uncovers the driving forces of nature and reinvents the world in the flow of the paint.

OÏO takes inspiration from the writing of Hubert Reeves on the creation of the universe.OÏO cinepainting moves from chaos to organization, from the abstract to the figurative. Movement gave birth to time, and time gave birth to history.OÏO needed eleven-and-a-half years to make (1992-2003)."

site: http://www.oiofilm.com/

corporate & institutional

2011-09-20T22:00:00.000+01:00

Cultura em Lagoas

Promotinal video for the "Cultura em Lagoas" event that takes place every Summer in Oeiras Park.

World Youth Festival, Barcelona 2004
Interactive CD-ROM intro video

The World Youth Festival Barcelona 2004 lasted one week, from 8 to 14 August. An youth evocation of diversity, solidarity and dialogue, held at the Universal Forum of Cultures, Barcelona 2004. It was organised by a variety of international youth associations, the Barcelona Youth Council (CJB) and the National Youth Council of Catalonia (CJNC). Other groups collaborated in and supported the event;

The world youth festivals are a meeting point created and headed by youth organisations. They have different perspectives and they use these meetings to share ideas and projects, as well as to debate solutions and proposals concerning youth and general issues. There are multiple reasons for holding these festivals, but the most important point to understand is how they strengthen the contribution to society by today’s youth. They also promote dialogue with administrations and institutions, as well as increasing international cooperation and global solidarity.

I was leading @rte Digital team. We were responsible for the video coverage of the activities of the Spanish Youth Council (CJE). Later, we produced an interactive CD-ROM destinate to the participants and youth organizations in Spain.

A nossa escola pela não violência - Cerimónia de Entrega de Prémios

Entrega de Prémios Cashouse

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social issues

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"Social issues are matters which directly or indirectly affect many or all members of a society and are considered to be problems, controversies related to moral values, or both.
Social issues include poverty, violence, pollution, injustice, suppression of human rights, discrimination, and crime, as well as abortion, gay marriage, gun control, and religion, to name a few.
Social issues are related to the fabric of the community, including conflicts among the interests of community members, and lie beyond the control of any one individual."
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Lançamento do CENA - Sindicato dos Músicos, dos Profissionais do Espetáculo e do Audiovisual
year: 2011, duration: 11 min 46 sec.

Video sobre o lançamento do CENA - Sindicato dos Músicos, dos Profissionais do Espetáculo e do Audiovisual. O CENA foi lançado oficialmente no dia 11 de Dezembro de 2011, no teatro da Comuna, em Lisboa.

IEJ - message to the Saharawi people
year: 2005, duration: 02 min 00 sec.

IEJ (Intercambio Europeu de Jovens) members expressed on this video, their solidarity with the Saharawi people who live in precarious living conditions, calling for the holding of a referendum on self-determination and an end to violations of human rights in the Saharawi occupied territories.

websites

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website name: Terraços dos Alcoutins

client: Tux & Gill

year: 2008

description:

url: http://www.alcoutins.com/

website name: Voz di Paz

client: Voz di Paz

year: 2010

description / notes: created with wordpress

url: http://www.vozdipaz.org/

website name: Tux & Gill - tools for brands

client: Tux & Gill

year: 2008

description / notes: created with wordpress

url: http://www.tux-gill.pt/

website name: Recursos audiovisuais e multimédia nas acções de formação (Audiovisual an multimedia resources in traning sessions)

client: Algarve Film Commission
year: 2009
description / notes: created with wordpress
url: http://recursos-audiovisuais.freehostia.com/

website name: University on Youth and Development

client: North South Center of the Council of Europe

year: 2009

description / notes: a new site as been created at: www.uyd.me

url: (this site is no longer available)

website name: rEDHe (Rede de Educação para os Direitos Humanos) (Human Rights Education Network
client: rEDHe
year: 2009
description / notes: site created for an event on 2009
url: (this site is no longer available)

website / blog name: Intermitentes do espéctaculo e do audiovisual
client:
year: 2008
description / notes:
url: http://intermitentes-videos.blogspot.com/

website name: Terrakota

client: Terrakota

year: 2006
description / notes: site created for an music album in 2006
url: (this site is no longer available)

website name: INA - POEFDS
client: INA - Instituto Nacional de Administração
year: 2005
description / notes: site created for a training project on 2005.
url: (this site is no longer available)

website name: Ana Borges - Corpo de Hoje
client:
year: 2004
description / notes: site created for an event
url: http://corpodehoje.no.sapo.pt/

website name: Ana Borges - Hopperhope

client:

year: 2004
description / notes: site created for an event

url: http://hopperhope.no.sapo.pt/

website name: Dossier Amílcar Cabral
client: Fundação Mário Soares - Arquivo & Biblioteca
year: 2003
description / notes: this site has been archived
url: (this site is no longer available)

website name: Dossier 25 de Abril de 1974
client: Fundação Mário Soares - Arquivo & Biblioteca
year: 2003
description / notes: has been archived
url: (this site is no longer available)

website name: Dossier Ant. B. Machado
client: Fundação Mário Soares - Arquivo & Biblioteca
year: 2003
description / notes: has been archived
url: (this site is no longer available)

I recommend

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In this section I will be writing about some projects that I appreciate. I will be commenting on each, explaining what I like most and what I dislike or like less. I will present my thoughts and I will collect comments and critics from related articles on the contents, design, structure and in the main idea in general. Note that will be writing about works and projects that are not mine, i.e., I am not the author of these contents. Although I see it as good examples of audiovisual / media contents and in some way these contents are related with the work I do.

Choose a Different Ending

website:

Choose A Different Ending is an interactive film that allows you to decide what happens next. You can interact with it, choose what to do and decide how it ends. In Choose A Different Ending you decide whether to live or die.

Made for the U.K. Metropolitan Police by Spike, ‘Choose a different ending’ is one of the sharpest uses of YouTube I have yet seen for a public sector campaign.

An interesting and interactive use of Youtube in the fight against gang related violence (knives in this instance), as part of the Drop The Weapons initiative. You decide how the story unfolds...

Like the acting and the way it's shot - feels more real than a lot of stuff in this area.

The fact that the different elements are all pretty short is key - avoids the 'life's too short' response you often get with this kind of idea.

The interactivity is good, and may get people playing around (how many people can you stab!), learning stuff as a consequence (4 years for carrying a knife).

Shot from a first person perspective, the interactive viral allows viewers to decide their own destiny by offering a series of choices and pathways which decide their fate. Confronted with a number of different options, such as whether to leave home with a knife or getting in with the wrong crowd, the viewer’s decisions determine their future. An interactive forum also allows viewers to post their own thoughts and reactions to the issues raised.

Although, I consider that the narrative is very obvious (hardly a challenge to choose the “right” ending). There are some aspects in the script that I consider to be not well done (example: if you leave home with a knife, the police will cross in your path at some point and you will get arrested, but if you are not carrying the knife you never meet them. Seams that the police have a long range knife detector!).

It’s not perfect. If you stab the guy, you get to find out the legal implications in no uncertain terms; but if you go party, you are suddenly watching a music video by Chipmunk. The idea of gratifying good choices by using a music video might not work well if the intended audience (young people) do not appreciate much the music or the band.

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Asylum 626

website: http://www.asylum626.com/

Personally I don't appreciate much environments where people suffer and are tortured. As an audiovisual creator I do think we should have some careful in the contents we create and the messages we pass. We do have a very powerful tool in our hands and if we can generate thoughts and stimulate imagination in other people, is best to generate positive and lighter thoughts and feelings (you might thing - what a crap! And maybe you are right. But I am a dreamer and do prefer the light dreams).

Any way, I must admit that the contents presented bellow are amazing, it breeds art (although reflecting a very dark side of the human being). Though it sounds horrific, the creative directors behind the site say the violence is largely psychological.

Although being a quite dark and heavy experience, there are theories that this kind of contents do help people to release tension avoiding them to actually bring it to the real world, i.e., to reproduce this violence in their real lives.

In my opinion the quality of this work is superb in all aspects. It takes us beyond any interactive audiovisual experience I have experienced.

Still is a bit complicated to use it at the 1st time. Maybe because we are not use to interact with films in such way, and most is new to us. This was the reason I have collected information from different sources and I posted bellow some tips on how to use this product. I stopped after the 1st treatment because I had no Doritos (corn chips), and in order to pass to the second treatment you must have a bag of Doritos Black Pepper Jack or Smoking Cheddar BBQ. You will have to introduce a code that comes in those bags and I am not so sure if it will work if you purchase one of those bags outside USA.

After the succes of the Hotel 626 campaign, Doritos has launched a new online experience, the Asylum 626. The Campaign is created by Goodby, Silverstein & Partners and produced by B-Reel.The new website is still scary and divided into stages where you have goals to meet and puzzles to unravel. To personalize the experience, which is like a hybrid online game and a web film, viewers must activate their webcams and microphones and log-in to the site via Facebook and Twitter. During the gameplay, the site will incorporate video footage, pull in photos off Facebook and send messages to contacts via Facebook and Twitter.

The scenes are very quickly cut and manage to scare even the toughest players fear.

As the game proceeds, more interactive features become available. You have the option to include your e-mail address, phone number, web camera and microphone in the mix. Again, though, the only mandatory entry is your date of birth due to graphic violence. Even then, entering a month and year while omitting a date seems to work just fine. Again, though, the only mandatory entry is your date of birth due to graphic violence. Even then, entering a month and year while omitting a date seems to work just fine. Asylum 626 went live on Sept. 18 and, like its predecessor, is only viewable at night between the hours of 6 pm and 6 am (tip: If you want to play the game in during the day time you can change the clock on your computer and try again). This time, viewers awaken to find themselves strapped to a bed in an insane asylum, held hostage at the mercy of a mad doctor. The plot unfolds through a series of flashbacks until players are able to break free of their shackles and begin exploring.

For example, in one scene the player is attacked by a chainsaw-wielding maniac while trapped in a closet. There is an option to alert friends by sending out a message asking for help. Friends who take the bait will be asked to scream into their microphones or hit as many keys on their keyboards as possible to distract the assailant.

Both Hotel 626 and Asylum 626 use head-tracking, which allows viewers to control the action using their webcams. During the chainsaw-closet scene players can wave their hands or heads to dodge the blade. In other parts of the story, live video of players will appear on reflected surfaces.

In another scenario, players are presented with two photos of Facebook friends and forced to choose who will live and who... probably won't live. "We leave it to the imagination what happens," explains Hunter Hindman (Creative Director). "There's some fairly gruesome sound design and some leading things to indicate that the friend you do not save is not doing so well." To access the climactic scene viewers must purchase bags of Doritos Black Pepper Jack or Smoking Cheddar BBQ - two flavors the brand has "brought back from the dead" - bearing an augmented reality marker, which acts as a key.

You can check out the Asylum 626 website (www.asylum626.com) or watch the trailer. note: If you want to play the game in during the day time you can change the clock on your computer and try again.

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Radiotjänst Tackfilm

website: http://en.tackfilm.se/

In Sweden, millions of people each year ignore paying the TV license, the fee you pay for the public channels. Radiotjänst, the Swedish organization in charge of annually collecting these fees, have since a few years back switched to a new strategy to get TV owners to pay up. Instead of attacking all bilkers they are officially thanking everyone who is paying the fees.

Radiotjänst Sweden have this viral film where the idea is to send it as a thank you to your pals as a Thank you for paying for your TV Licence guilt-trip. Or and honest thanks, depending on if the recipient paid or not.

The setup is a press conference that the whole country, in fact the whole world, is paying attention to, where the speaker goes on at length about this single hero who has ensured that everything you hear on TV and Radio is independent and free from hidden agendas. She keeps singing the praises of publicly funded programming that remains independent from government, short sighted commercial ventures and how it ensures quality programming. Then the reveal, the hero is you (or in this video your own Dabitch).

Through uploading your photo or using a web cam, your face gets superimposed on a film, thanking the one person of the world, who is protecting freedom of speech through sponsoring open television broadcasting. You can now see your face being praised all over the world as people reach out and celebrate you as the Hero. You can then share this video with all your friends, showing that you are giving and responsible person.

Fun fact, the license in Sweden has been renamed "fee" to be less ambiguous and is annually approx €200 per household (not per TV set).

The campaign is Draft FCB. Radiotjänst media agency is IUM.

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HBO Imagine

website: http://www.hboimagine.com/

HBO Imagine at facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hboimagine

HBO Imagine is an interactive movie (a Flash-driven framework) off high quality Flash Video in a 3D environment. A multi-platform storytelling experience where you’re not only the director in this movie but you also need to solve the crime. The story is told through interconnecting short clips as opposed to the linear format of today’s TV show. You can change the camera angle of the clip and see "hidden" parts of the story (you can see some stories told from 4 different angles each, so you can see the whole story only if you check the four or them). The more clips you watch, the more you unlock clips and clues. The mechanism for viewing is a large 3d cube which you drag around to see the 4 different sides.

Starting with a 2-minute short entitled The Affair. In the video, a couple’s awkward encounter is made more awkward by the fact that there are four available angles to watch their conversation from — and spinning around the “story cube” to shift angles reveals just how much is actually going on.

There are over 41 pieces of content directed by Noam Murro, including short- and long-form video, audio files, news stories, letters and images that are connected to each other, revealing more of the big picture with each click. Users can navigate the story by unlocking and viewing the content.

Half the fun of Imagine is figuring out the story on your own — in fact, that’s what takes the otherwise passive experience of watching content and transforms it into a game. Besides, there are a number of deliberate plot holes and places for the story to be continued, which is apparently the goal: According to AdAge, viewers will be invited to submit their own Imagine-themed videos.

At a certain point, navigating the sprawling interface does become tiresome, and it gets harder to find new content to add to your understanding of the story. Fortunately, the Chart Your Progress option lays out the narrative in a semi-linear fashion, allowing you to see how different elements are related and how much more you have to complete. You can also click outside the box. It expands to a huge network of like 50 videos, all attached with strings. Find them all and it unlocks the complete video.

All this is kind of edgy, I suppose. Maybe too edgy for an old fuddy duddy, and therefore perfect for today’s teens with short attention span, but very entertaining nonetheless.

HBO Imagine is also being realized in a multi-city outdoor installation called The Cube. The HBO Cube is a unique, new storytelling device that offers four different perspectives on the same scene simultaneously. In telling the same story from four distinct points of view, each side of the cube stands alone as an engaging film, and as one piece of a larger puzzle. As viewers move around the cube, they watch the story unfold from different perspectives, forming different perceptions, and often misperceptions, of the characters and plot. Only by watching the story unfold from multiple sides of the cube can one begin to see the bigger picture. The HBO Cube features two films, each 2 minutes and each played twice successively, on a rotating basis.

HBO Imagine: Behind The Scenes Featurette (HBO)

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The HBO Voyeur Project

website: http://archive.bigspaceship.com/hbovoyeur/

The HBO Voyeur Project was a theatrical multimedia (multiplatform) experience and marketing campaign launched in the summer of 2007 using Voyeurism as a vehicle. Content related to the characters is scattered online in fictional web pages, in photo and video clips on media sharing platforms such as Flickr and YouTube, in blogs and social networks, on the HBO channels, and through mobile content. The focus seems to be on people living in eight fictional apartments on the corner of Broome Street and Ludlow Street. The display was projecting on a massive scale on the side of a building on Broome and Ludlow street on June 28 - July 1, from 9 - 11pm, and again from July 5 - July 8.

The site's slogan was "See what people do when they think no one is Watching." The residences and their respective stories appear in New York City.

The premise was simple: Using a single, stationary camera angle and no dialogue, viewers would be invited to literally peer into the apartments of the show's characters. Stories would unfold strictly through action, often times in multiple rooms at once (and often times multiple story lines at once).

From the HBO Voyeur web site, viewers can look in on stories unfolding in 5 different locations, including one entire apartment building:

West 41st Street, "The Artist"
East 85th Street, "The Housewife"
Prince Street, "The Meditator"
West 72nd Street, "The Mortician"
Broome & Ludlow with 8 individual stories:

Apartment 1A, "The Tempted"
Apartment 1B, "The Departure"
Apartment 2A, "The Discovery"
Apartment 2B, "The Proposal"
Apartment 3A, "The Killer Within"
Apartment 3B, "The Grown-Up Table"
Apartment 4A, "The Delivery"
Apartment 4B, "The Temptress"

The view is a cross section looking through the walls of the apartment (or in "The Mortician" case, a funeral parlor) at the people inside.

Broome & Ludlow seems to be the focal point of the series with the idea of one story of the entire apartment complex consisting of 8 other sub-stories that all relate to each other. The stories appear to involve murder, violence, romance, marriage, and cheating

Along with additional interactive content, viewers were able to find more information about the individual characters and their lives, by looking both online and in the real world. This further heightened the experience for those keen to get more involved.

Divided into 12 moving parts, the film mimicked a cross-section of the building's infrastructure, allowing it to show the interiors of all eight apartments simultaneously, as well as the stairwell. Onlookers instantly became voyeurs. For Cindy Matero (director, brand strategy, HBO), seeing the film projected life-size onto the side of a building in Manhattan was the most memorable moment of the campaign.

HBO Subscribers can also watch additional materials related to the online site via HBO On Demand, including an additional story "The Watcher", trailers for the online site, and paired apartment storylines from "Ludlow & Broome".

The HBO Voyeur website received a record number of hits: 1.2 million in the first four weeks, with an average time spent on site of nine minutes. The original content on all HBO platforms, including HBO On Demand, HBO Mobile and HBO on iTunes, also garnered above-average usage. Additional post-campaign research revealed that HBO Voyeur communicated a strong and positive brand message. This was a resoundingly successful campaign by any standards.

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Late Fragment

Late Fragment is an Canadian interactive cinema production, written and directed by Daryl Cloran, Anita Doron and Mateo Guez. It is North America's first interactive feature film. The project is a co-production of Canadian Film Centre and the National Film Board of Canada.

Late Fragment is an interactive film that lets audiences piece together, both literally and figuratively, the cinematic narrative in front of them. The physical experience is not unlike channel surfing in front of the television, except imagine that each channel presents different scenes from the same story. Sitting on the couch, remote control in hand, audiences can click “enter” on their remote control, and impact the way the story unfolds, sequencing the events of the story depending on when and how often they click “enter.” Late Fragment is like many of the non-linear movies we have come to love including Crash, Short Cuts, and Amores Perros. But with Late Fragment audiences now impact what scene they may get next.

Demo:

This interactive demo and trailer shows you how the film works and how you can control the way it flows. Follow different paths and gain new perspectives with every click!

Demo: http://www.latefragment.com/lf_demo/index.html

Trailer: http://www.latefragment.com/trailer_demo/

There were three writer/directors involved in the creation of this film.

"One of the biggest challenges was to find the best method to develop this novel form of storytelling. The solution for this was to create a physical space where the creative team could experiment with various sequences of scenes. Once the script was locked, each scene was assigned a unique 4-digit number, and was printed out on colour-coded paper. These independent scenes were then sequenced on a wall using yarn to represent the interactions."

Script Writing - take a look at the Interactive Wall (interactive scene plan or flowchart) here:

http://interactivefilm.org/files/Media/Timeline_Documents/5a_The_Wall.jpg

INTERACTIVE DESIGN - Take a look at the Storyframe Architecture (the first image of each scene was exported and printed) here:

http://interactivefilm.org/files/Media/Timeline_Documents/8_Post-Produciton_Wall.jpg

You can read more on how this film was made here:

http://interactivefilm.org/late_fragment_timeline

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The Dexter's Hit List viral campaign

website: http://www.thedexterhitlist.com/intro.php

The Dexter Hit List viral allows users to send friends a personalised police press conference video where they appear as the main suspect in an investigation mirroring the plot of the second season of the show.

With this viral campaign you can create a personalized video news report (after uploading a picture) claiming that you or your friend is next on Dexter's hit list. Your friend will receive a fake but terrifyingly realistic video news report!

Besides adding a photo you can create personalised questions or record your own question and the journalists will ask those questions to the police during the press conference.

take a look at the fake news release here: http://www.icetruck.tv/news/?id=0502640821

"That Dexter Viral campaign created by London agency Ralph which according to them "proved so controversial that Ralph received calls of complaint from the public and London's Scotland Yard Police" is still quite sticky months after its release. The premise it the fun personalization trick, where you can type in a friends name and freak them the hell out used in many a viral campaign before we were even set a personal one but we didn't take it seriously since the serial killer in this video is looking for a mid-30's male with a background in media calling themselves Ad Rag, so I figured us Art Directing females of undefined age calling our site Adland and ourselves Dabitch were safe. ;) Note to Ralph, try targeting a little more correct next time. On the other hand, we love the show and especially the titles."

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http://adland.tv/content/dexter-viral-campaign-proves-be-one-most-memorable-2007

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Crimeface

website: http://www.crimeface.net/

Crimeface is an online interactive film created in Manchester between 2004 and 2007 by Krishna Stott. The film "pushes the notion of interactivity and play into a different game space."This new media project mixes popular formats: film, literature, music and gaming resulting in an episodic hyper-narrative that is interactive and multiplatform and has played in cinemas, on DVD, mobile phones and on the internet.

Crimeface it's an episodic new media project that tells the dark tale of a black detective in a crime-ridden city on the trail of a serial criminal. The noir drama unfolds as we (players) observe and participate.

Winner of both the Webby and People's Voice awards in the Experimental category of online film and video at the Webby Awards in 2008 this new mix of film and interactivity was described on launch as being "a glimpse of the future for on-screen fiction" by Pocket-Lint.

The interactivity allows people to get involved with the drama, exploring the background of the story. “A lot of the back story is made by creating fake documents from Union City Police," says Krishna.

"It's got a layered narrative and the deeper you go into it, the more gems you find. Extra videos and clues are there to uncover a bigger story coming down on Tranz and Harry."

How to play?

You can watch it like any other film but if you want more then with a click of the mouse you can go further into the story and characters without leaving the film.

Players click on hotspots and links in the film and are taken to different levels of information, media and narrative. This extra information adds to the drama and can change the perception of what is happening in the film through the subplots and clues provided.

Distribution/publishing plan:

Crimeface exists online and is free to play in keeping with the web philosophy of old.

The trailer is available for download in formats that include: 3GP, iPod, WMV, and MOV. (you can also check out other Crimeface clips via YouTube, linked to from the trailer download page).

The offline version is available to download. You can Download Crimeface here.

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The Subservient Chicken

website: http://www.bk.com/en/us/campaigns/subservient-chicken.html

The Subservient Chicken is an advertising program created to promote international fast food restaurant chain Burger King's TenderCrisp chicken sandwich and their "Have it Your Way" campaign. Created for the Miami-based advertising firm Crispin Porter + Bogusky (abbreviated to CP+B) by The Barbarian Group, the program featured a viral marketing website, television and print campaigns and a one time pay-per-view program. The program was similar to other marketing campaigns created by CP+B for Burger King, including the Coq Roq, Ugoff, and Sith Sense.

Preview:

"We collaborated with Crispin Porter + Bogusky to develop an elaborate interactive video-based site that allowed people to type in commands that controlled the chicken. We managed all the front-end production, created the database of search terms and developed all of the technology on the back-end to enable it to work seamlessly. It was so creepy, weird and well-executed that many people who visited the site thought that they were actually controlling this person in a chicken suit in real life."

The Results: Quite possibly one of the most successful marketing website of all time. Upwards of a half a billion hits. Twenty million unique visitors. Sales of Burger King’s chicken sandwiches increased in a matter of weeks. It was the One Club’s campaign of the year. But maybe Adweek said it best in its cover story about the chicken: “Did it work? The answer? A resounding yes.”

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Other interesting products:

Switching - A film puzzle

Switching is a film you can change whilst viewing it - a puzzle that can be arranged in many ways.

link: http://www.switching.dk/en/

resources

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Transmedia

"In Transmedia storytelling, content becomes invasive and permeates fully the audience's lifestyle. A transmedia project develops storytelling across multiple forms of media in order to have different "entry points" in the story; entry-points with a unique and independent lifespan but with a definite role in the big narrative scheme."

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The following contents were produced by Diogo Pessoa de Andrade.

5000e ghost project

5000e ghost project is a pilot project I created as a resource for film students during an international training course on creating interactive cross-media films. The course "Anything is a Storytelling Device?!" aims to teach students from traditional film schools on how to create interactive cross-platform film products.

url: http://www.arte-digital.org/5000c/

The following contents were produced by Lance Weiler.

Creating a StoryWorld

STM's Chief Story Architect Lance Weiler explains how a storyworld was designed around his feature film HEAD TRAUMA.

The Evolution of Storytelling

View more presentations from Lance Weiler.

or visit www.seizethemedia.com

The following documents were produced by Zen Films.

Transmedia Storyteller

Transmedia And Independent Filmmakers

Transmedia Storyteller

TransmediaStoryteller: 01_Terms and concepts

Transmedia Story Development

Media Consumption Trends and Opportunities for the Self-published Creative

Parasites Multiverse 1.0

Transmedia Platform Selection

Transmedia & Marketing

Transmedia Activism And LowLifes

from Zen Films.

clients

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