Do you want to screen your film at one of Norway’s most important film festivals?

Films from the 17000 Islands project will be picked out to be screened at the Norwegian Short Film Festival 2014. Visit the website now and create you own film. We will notify you as soon as your film is selected.

GOOD LUCK!

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Film & video honorees are selected for recognition based on excellence in the following criteria: Concept & writing, quality of craft, integration, overall experience. The festival received 12000 entries from all 50 US states and over 60 countries. The Webby Awards is the leading award for websites and interactive films.

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Jaya Mahajan from the blog Factual for Asia writes about 17000 Islands:

http://factualforasia.com/2014/03/12/17000-islands-interactive-experiment-from-indonesia/

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http://www.ffd.or.id/2013/12/dokumenter-interaktif.html

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The 17000 Islands project (17K) revolves around audio-visual explorations of Indonesia’s Taman Mini Theme Park.

The physical park itself is a idealized replica of Indonesia’s 17 thousand islands and their diverse cultures. The digital experience recreates these islands with short film and audio clips, and allows the viewer to remix the original footage into their own interpretation. This new film is then added back into the experience as a new “island”.

Here’s a quick snapshot view of two years of hard work, in the form of two integral design challenges the project posed for us and the milestones reached through the effort.

Challenge: Development

Build a powerful, web-based timeline-based film editing console that would allow the audience to assemble and edit video footage, sound, text, subtitles, with the added and important function of recording audio all through the plain old simple web browser.

Milestones: New Procedures

On an interface design and programming level, we pushed already useful toolsets like jQuery and WebAudio, and HTML5 video and canvas elements to places that were difficult to get to but allowed for drag and drop clip assembly, super fine-grained control of media in and out points, and real-time compositing.

On a backend functionality level (nerd alert!), 17k uses websockets, Node.js, and FFMPEG in combination with in-browser hardware access to allow for audio recording through a microphone input straight through to the web-server.

On a work flow level, the 17k editor is all about content creation online and offline. The final save functionality involves the conversion of ones completed piece into a downloadable file that can be imported into Final Cut Pro for conversion into a complete high-res version of what is now a film, thereby extending the reach of the documentary back into the theatre.

Challenge: Design

Make this all fun and engaging, and to encourage an audience to become participants and part of an informative documentary experience.

Milestones: New Visual Language.

17k has a visual and conceptual counterpoint to the linear, timeline-based experience outlined above in the form of a very non-linear, organic experience, loosely labelled the Island Builder. Powered by a simple but complex algorithm, the Voronoi equation, the Island Builder divides a space into a crystalline lattice structure, allowing us to break the video into shapes other than the rectilinear.

People can pull and push these image fragments around to form new shapes and connections. The process is abstract, but the math is such that while maintaining the sense of play and fluidity, all interaction with this Island Builder is actually creating a film edit that is reflected in the linear, timeline-based experience.

On a technical level, it was an achievement to fold the math into a programming structure that could make a connection with the super-nonlinearity of a voronoi equation with the strict linearity of a timeline editor.

On a design level it was an achievement to glue everything together: image sequencing, canvas drawing, cursor tracking, drag and drop, and above all, naturalize the experience with colour, shape and sound.

When the dust settles

17k is borne out of a set of challenges. And it will challenge its audience. The user experience it offers it deep and complex, 17K does many things above and beyond what is described here. Of interest to us and the film-makers, apart from the coolness of the final piece itself, 17k contains the seeds of many new ideas to work with and build on in the future.

Mike Robbins 

mike@heliozilla.com 

Helios Design Labs

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Now it’s time for you to make your own film at the site!

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Here’s the trailer!

If you are at the festival, please come to the presentation monday November the 25th at De Brakke Grond, Rode Zaal. Installation throughout the festival at De Brakke Grond, Foyer Onthaal and make your own film at De Brakke Grond, Witte Zaal.

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Check out this intro video to get a taste of what’s in store!

The project has been nominated for the Innovation Award at Sheffield Doc/Fest! We will have an installation launch at the festival and, for the first time, people will be able to interact with the project at the festival.

At Sheffield, 17000 Islands can be viewed from 10:00 – 17:00 in the Cross Over Lounge throughout the festival.

Festival Page: http://sheffdocfest.com/films/show/5467

In Conversation/Q&A: Saturday, 15 June 2013 at 15.45 – 16:45 (Cross Over Lounge, in the Workstation)

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We (Thomas, Edwin & Paramita) have been invited to CPH:DOX to present a sneak preview of 17000 ISLANDS followed by a panel discussion. The panel, Case studies – An Interactive Audience, will be moderated by Annika Gustafson. Asta Wellejus will also present two of her projects.

WHEN: Friday, 9th November 2012 at 15:00

WHERE: Cinemateket, Gothersgade 55, 1123 Copenhagen, Denmark

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We are excited to screen our first test-user film made by Finnish director Elina Talvensaari (How to Pick Berries), during the presentation.

On the occasion of this panel, director Thomas Østbye and graphic designer Daniel Butler has come up with a fantastic idea to create an INTERACTIVE POSTER  promoting our project. It is only apt that an interactive project should be interactive all the way!

Here’s what the poster looks like. Tell us what you think. If you’re in Copenhagen this week, make sure to “add” your islands to our poster. Also, click a photo to tell us which Island is yours and share it on our Facebook Page.

We (Thomas, Edwin & Paramita) will all be attending, so come and say hello if you’re there.

POSTER WITH SOME ADDED “ISLANDS”

“ISLAND” STICKERS WAITING TO BE USED

YOUR ISLANDS!

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