Alexandre Brachet -producer, director -Upia
"Gaza / Sderot," "City of the Dead," "Prison Valley" ... The agency Upian, founded in 1998 by the pioneer Alex Brachet has gained a reputation with ambitious and committed
web documentaries . New forms, the service impeccable design sense and passion for work well done should be school on the web.
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ambitious and committed
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documentaries especially designed for the web OR better: the design is fitted around the content of the documentary
documentaries especially designed for the web OR better: the design is fitted around the content of the documentary
What is a good subject for documentary?
What makes it specifically suitable for the web?
OR Why is the web a better medium to distribute the stories?
OR Why is the web a better medium to distribute the stories?
Interest in everyday stories trying to produce pieces that portrait/ cover every aspect of the world at present.
Personal stories. Individuals as examples.
INTERACTIVITY Aspect of play/ game on the website. The audience has choices. Characters (=stories) to chose from.
We can enter different worlds. Chose what we want to explore/ be part of even if just for a few minutes.
It's about giving voice to the before unheard and unseen but also everyday life and how different it is depending on where you live. Where destiny takes you.
Rather than long aimless search online, or feature film length documentaries the website provide a dense net of stories that will put the viewers' life in perspective. We become particpants - not just users. We don't just gaze at peoples' lives Big Brother style but
a) they tell their story
b) (in Prison Valley) we can contact the ones telling the stories.
--> Creating Discourse. Communities.
Havana- Miami:
over three months
short (2 minutes long) video chronicles
a team in Havana (Cuba) and a team in Miami (USA). These episodes will follow six people from each of the two cities over three months, starting on February 22nd, 2010.
Internet users can follow these stories via an original non-linear interface. They can watch, and respond with video, photo or written comments. Users can also send videos to friends and embed them into their own blogs and social media sites.
Prison Valley:
"If he (the viewer) wants to watch Prison Valley as a film, it is possible. If he wants to spend more time with Brenda, wife of prisoner, or have access to statistics, it is too. We propose an enrichment of the story, characters, universe, rather than interactivity principle. " (from)
dense net of stories, examples, locations
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GAZA SDEROT
