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Show HN: Hollow, an interactive documentary

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Re: Show HN: Hollow, an interactive documentary

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In my opinion this would have been better as a movie. The only interactivity was scrolling down the page to control the speed of the montage. I think the strength of a Document vs a conventional documentary/montage thing is that you can introduce a lot more information in a format that isn't strictly linear. This was linear and oftentimes too busy in with the transitions. Also, the choppy speed of my mouse scrolling vs. a smooth constant speed montage actually makes it feel more busy during big transitions.

The tech is cool, but this instance of it isn't really doing it for me.

Re: Show HN: Hollow, an interactive documentary

#7
If anyone here is interested in interactive documentaries, you should check out Clouds when it comes out:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1636630114/clouds-intera...

It's a documentary on generative art and that is also an executable. Basically several artist coders got together to put together a documentary on their craft and the art of each will be showcased as a layer on top of the documentary that you can play/interact with while the artist is discussing its creation and whatnot.