Ilaria Vecchi gives the conference on the documentary and the interactive documentary. Photos: Alberto Medina Cruz.
Taught collateral conference to Global Game Jam.
Ilaria Vecchi gives the conference on the documentary and the interactive documentary. Photos: Alberto Medina Cruz.
As part of the collaborative activities of Global Game Jam, which will be held at the University of Informatics Sciences (UCI), from 19 to 23 January 2017, this Thursday the conference "Introduction to the Documentary And to the interactive documentary ", given by the Italian based in England, Ilaria Vecchi, which was attended by MsC. Gorm Loi, president of the largest video game competition that there is.
The experienced director gave an overview of the history of the documentary, beginning with the first, created in 1926. She said that it is a construction of moments of life that will no longer exist or an idealized reality. She emphasized its importance in dealing with universal themes, existing different types: participative, observatory, poetic, historical, etc.
The expert also explained the linear or non-linear form of realization, to the way of communicating interactive stories, which is fundamental; But we must not forget that it is the story that is told that fascinates the viewer, even if it is involved. It can be created in different ways: branched (with several endings), linear, parallel (with a single end), threads (can develop three distinct histories), non-concentric ...
Ilaria Vecchi made clear to those present, where there were participants in the Global Game Jam and other members of the UCI community, that interactive art is novel and creative, and the documentary in that sense is a very individual experience of unique stories and Interesting
He also said that there are video games that mix with the interactive documentary, because they use real videos and photographs.
