Interactive project about the plight of the Holmes family is in official selection at Sheffield's Doc/Fest
Firestorm, the Guardian's groundbreaking multimedia project about a catastrophic bushfire that devastated the small Tasmanian town of Dunalley, has been selected for competition at the prestigious Sheffield documentary festival, Doc/Fest, which runs next week.
The Guardian's half-hour, online experience, which blends longform writing, video documentary, audio material and interactive elements, will be a permanent installation at the event, one of the world's top three documentary festivals, and is also in official competition for its Innovation Award.
Produced to coincide with the launch of Guardian Australia, Firestorm was inspired by the now iconic photos taken by Tim Holmes of his wife Tammy and five grandchildren sheltering under a jetty from the flames that destroyed their home.
Telling the story of the family and the town that day, as well as exploring why such disastrous fires happen and how,...
Firestorm, the Guardian's groundbreaking multimedia project about a catastrophic bushfire that devastated the small Tasmanian town of Dunalley, has been selected for competition at the prestigious Sheffield documentary festival, Doc/Fest, which runs next week.
The Guardian's half-hour, online experience, which blends longform writing, video documentary, audio material and interactive elements, will be a permanent installation at the event, one of the world's top three documentary festivals, and is also in official competition for its Innovation Award.
Produced to coincide with the launch of Guardian Australia, Firestorm was inspired by the now iconic photos taken by Tim Holmes of his wife Tammy and five grandchildren sheltering under a jetty from the flames that destroyed their home.
Telling the story of the family and the town that day, as well as exploring why such disastrous fires happen and how,...
- 6/5/2013
- by Jon Henley
- The Guardian - Film News
The arms race to lure music-loving clients is heating up at the moment: First Google gets a music service, and now MSN does too. MSN's download service launches tomorrow, and Microsoft's schmoozed all four big record labels to help it get off the ground.
Deals with Emi, Warner Music, Universal and Sony BMG mean that MSN Music will go live with over a million tracks--a tenth of what iTunes offers, but still nothing to be sniffed at. The number is likely to go up over the months as smaller and independent labels are signed up. It'll sit in the Music segment of MSN's new homepage, and runs on exactly the same tech as Microsoft uses to power Zune's store (though the two systems are definitely separate). The tracks are 192kbps encoded in MP3 or Wma format, and are DRM-free.
Microsoft's being a little tricky with the pricing--at its U.K.
Deals with Emi, Warner Music, Universal and Sony BMG mean that MSN Music will go live with over a million tracks--a tenth of what iTunes offers, but still nothing to be sniffed at. The number is likely to go up over the months as smaller and independent labels are signed up. It'll sit in the Music segment of MSN's new homepage, and runs on exactly the same tech as Microsoft uses to power Zune's store (though the two systems are definitely separate). The tracks are 192kbps encoded in MP3 or Wma format, and are DRM-free.
Microsoft's being a little tricky with the pricing--at its U.K.
- 11/4/2009
- by Kit Eaton
- Fast Company
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