Are you an innovative journalist, photographer, documentary filmmaker, video producer, educator, social activist, designer, media professional, coder or creative talent with a strong interest in factual interactive stories? Want to develop and enhance your cross-disciplinary multimedia skills in accordance with the rapid changing interactive film context? You have a brilliant, innovative idea for
a digital factual project but you need some guidance to produce it? You want to work on a web project that stretches your cross-disciplinary skills? !F Lab is there to help you! Through technical guidance and storytelling coaching we will help you to realize the full potential of the conceptual interactive project you feel passionate about! !F LAB is a project based innovative Creative Europe initiative and provides a series of three sandbox-labs designed to facilitate creative individuals with the production of their factual interactive stories. Submit today your idea to !F Lab, and we’ll lead you through each step of its realization. It might be an immersive journalism piece, an i-doc (interactive documentary), a serious game, a historical graphic novel for the iPad, a media rich NGO website or a locative and educational app… it just requires to be a factual narrative and has to make use of digital interactive technology. With !F Lab you will be exposed to new methodologies aimed at boosting each phase of your production: story ideation, prototyping, user testing, user experience, budgeting, interface design, coding, digital strategy, pitching and finance. You will progress by following a collaborative ethos, while learning about agile development and design thinking. User experience will be put at the center of the storytelling creative process.
