Drumbeat/webmademovies2011

Software

Butter to 1.0

Contract Bocoup, a web firm focusing on javascript, to improve the popcorn.js library and build a front end interface that will allow video creators to add semantic meta-data to their videos.

National Film Board of Canada Educational Tool

In collaboration with the Spanish development company A Navalla Suiza (http://anavallasuiza.com/) and students from Seneca College, create working demos of a video tool for educators. The tool would allow teachers to create "lesson plans" by choosing regions of NFB films and associating these regions with maps and wikipedia articles, which would then auto-generate an HTML5 lesson plan.

Web presence for Web Made Movies + Popcorn.js

Creating a home page for Web Made Movies. Current spec is for a "Chrome experiments"-like gallery and an aggregator of activity streams (Git, Google Group, Twitter, Planet blog)

This gallery will

Innovation Challenges and Partnerships

OK GO

Launch an innovation challenge/invitation based on OK GO's latest video, White Knuckles (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHlJODYBLKs). The challenge would be to use popcorn.js and other open video technologies to create a series of video demos that show off HTML5. A "remix contest" but with the web rather than the music.

BAVC/Zero Divide

In co-production with the Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC), design a curriculum for student filmmakers to create short videos on local non-profits that incorporate popcorn.js

Corporation for Public Broadcasting

Create and assemble a series of demos for CPB executive to grasp potential of Open Video, with ultimate goal of building HTML5 framework for their American Archive project with associated grant.

Productions

Radical Cartography

Strong interest from NFB commissioning editors to pursue an exploration of "Radical Cartography", based in part on the work of Jeffrey Warren and Grassrootsmapping.org

Little Brother

Adapt Cory Doctorow's novel Little Brother to the web. As the themes of the novel revolve around teenagers and hacker culture, adapt the work so it can be performed by teenagers, each taking a "scene" as their own. Use technologies such as popcorn.js as opportunities for learning around the real-world technologies Doctorow uses in the book.

Arte

Work with the French/German broadcaster Arte to apply popcorn.js to some of their existing online content. Implementation will be with Upian, a french development house.

Kansas State Video Project

Work with Michael Wesch and students to create a follow up to "The Machine is Us/ing Us" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE) with popcorn.js