Also - here's a photo of Al Maysles and I from Silverdocs - where he was honored with the Guggenheim award. http://www.flickr.com/photos/scottstead/3638588645/
He's an amazing guy. He was discussing with me and a few other folks how we have a state department, a department of defense - how they're all war departments. He wanted to discuss with some folks on the hill while he was here about starting a peace department. This all just comes back full circle for me what I was talking about in the video conference - how do we bridge the gap between documentarians and videobloggers? Their content isn't all that different. They have similar editing workflow conversations. Our art forms are not that different and if anything are converging. Rupert was talking about doing filmatic screenings of videobloggers works in a theater like format. They're trying to get their content to the web. I am going to refrain from using the phrase Transmedia - because it will keep being rebranded and frankly terms like that drive me batty - but essentially its all converging. We're all artists - as much as the 'new media journalists' want to be, and essentially are - journalists. It all ends up on a screen (they just vary in size) its just a matter of us all helping each other out to get it on the screen we want it to be on - if not all of them - best we can. Thoughts? Cheers. Scott Stead www.scottstead.com www.documentaryclub.org [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
