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We know there’s a stampede to get the DVDs and start playing with them. We will most definitely get in touch with Amazon.ca to replenish their stock. We promise that they will have copies in hand in the next couple of days. If not send us back another note and we will put the pressure on!
In the meantime, play with our interactive trailer and/or convince Blockbuster to sell you one of their copies (we didn’t say that.)
Actually, the theme of Restorative Justice came after knowing the technical and process parameters. At the CFC Media Lab, we knew were going to distribute using the DVD-video as our technology platform, that we will expand on the interface model work by Lars von Triers and Morten Schodjt from Denmark, and that we will work with three emerging writer/directors.
When you think about it, those are very specific parameters within which a story needed to live. So in our effort to find the right story, some of the questions we needed to answer included:
which stories or genres best work interactively?
how do you give three different writer/directors creative freedom in their storytelling while also keeping the entire narrative as a whole?
can we find a narrative that conceptually fits the interactive model?
It takes a long time to find answers to these questions. But I remember the day vividly when everything clicked. We had been speaking with a lot of different production companies, independents, writers, creatives, new media and otherwise. One day I finally had a chance to visit with Xenophile Media who shared with me that they were doing a documentary on Restorative Justice. Specifically, they were working with the Centre for Restorative Justice in Montreal where they take victims and offenders of similar crimes (not the *same* crime) and put them through a 6-week “facilitated storytelling” process. Thomas Wallner, Patrick Crowe and I immediately understood as Thomas was describing this process that *THIS* was what we, as in the CFC Media Lab, have been waiting for in terms of the story framework for the interactive film. I immediately hired Xenophile Media as our research development team to come up with a workshop that will engage all three writer/directors and the two producers in a restorative justice process. They worked with the Centre for Restorative Justice in Montreal with Jean-Jacques Goulet (pictured above with the three directors), and the rest, as they say, is history. I should note that the experience meeting the RJ participants was tremendous and we’d like to thank them for being so generous with their time.
The track is called Navy Brown by Gentleman Reg. He’s a singer/songwriter from Toronto. And currently he’s hard at work on his new album. Check out this awesome video of his show at the Comfort Zone just this March 2008.
The post-production of Late Fragment was done in 2 overlapping stages: the Traditional Film Editing stage and the Interactive Editing stage.
In stage one, the stories of Faye, Theo and Kevin were edited separately as three distinct linear films.
The second stage consisted primarily of combining all 139 edited scenes from each story into a master interactive film experience, with the stories of Faye, Theo and Kevin unfolding simultaneously.
This part of the process involved little conventional editing of shot material. Instead, a frame from every scene was printed onto an index sized card, and these cards were posted and arranged on a wall, much like how screenwriters arrange scenes when writing a script.
“The Wall” was used to display the entire non-linear structure of the film and to determine the many possible paths which the viewer could navigate. After much trial and error, the cards were arranged to create an interactive journey that had many dramatic possibilities.
Once completed,”The Wall” became the interactive script for the programmers. It charted the flow of the overall story, noted all clicking relationships between scenes, and was designed to satisfy the user with multiple viewing experiences.
Alliance Francaise de Manille, 209 Nicanor Garcia Street,
Bel-Air II, Makati City
Category: Screening
Description:
Join actor Jeff Parazzo, producer Ana Serrano, and writer/director Mateo Guez at the Alliance Francaise de Manille for an intimate screening of Late Fragment. For more info, check out Alliance Francaise.
Play a creative and interactive role by navigating through the movie controlling the flow and direction of the elaborate sequence of events with a simple click. Audence interaction, followed by a panel discussion on the making of an interactive film with Mateo Guez (director), Anita Lee (producer), Roslyn Kalloo (editor) and Tina Santiago (line producer).
Want to see Late Fragment, ask questions of the Cast & Crew, and party it up. Give us your info and we'll send you an email the next time we're having an event near you.
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