DIGI.TALe

A devel­op­ment grant for inno­v­a­tive and exper­i­men­tal nar­ra­tive and doc­u­men­tary audio­vi­su­al con­tent.

What is DIGI.TALe?

DIGI.TALe was devel­oped in 2017 by the Medi­en­board Berlin-Bran­den­burg in coop­er­a­tion with the Film Uni­ver­si­ty Babels­berg and the DFFB. The programme’s goal is to explore new pos­si­bil­i­ties of cin­e­mat­ic sto­ry­telling that stem from dig­i­tal pro­duc­tion and dis­tri­b­u­tion tech­nolo­gies.

DIGI.TALe pro­motes the devel­op­ment of nar­ra­tive and doc­u­men­tary audio­vi­su­al con­tent.

The inno­v­a­tive and exper­i­men­tal char­ac­ter of the select­ed projects is impor­tant: from web series and apps to nar­ra­tive games and inter­ac­tive sto­ry­worlds, from vir­tu­al and aug­ment­ed real­i­ty appli­ca­tions to trans­me­di­al hybrid for­mats, for YouTube, Snapchat, Insta­gram, Face­book, or What­sApp, every­thing is pos­si­ble.

 

Project devel­op­ment /​ Sub­mis­sion

Stu­dents of the DFFB’s main study pro­gramme can par­tic­i­pate in DIGI.TALe. To do so, stu­dents must devel­op an idea and project con­tent, choose a select­ed medi­um that can sup­port the con­tent, and cre­ate a financ­ing plan with poten­tial indus­try part­ners and co-pro­duc­ers. Fur­ther­more, con­sid­er­a­tion must be giv­en to appro­pri­ate dis­tri­b­u­tion strate­gies, plat­forms, social media strate­gies, fes­ti­val sub­mis­sions, etc.

The goal is to cre­ate mar­ketable con­tent that can be dis­trib­uted through the active par­tic­i­pa­tion of the team.

A jury con­sist­ing of rep­re­sen­ta­tives from the Medi­en­board Berlin Bran­den­burg, the dig­i­tal indus­try, the Film Uni­ver­si­ty Babels­berg, and the DFFB will decide which projects par­tic­i­pate in the pro­gramme.

The pilot project was suc­cess­ful­ly launched in 2017 and will now be con­tin­ued.

 

All DIGI.TALe projects from the DFFB

In 2017, Hen­ning Wag­n­er and Tobias Gaede, both pro­duc­tion stu­dents, devel­oped the inter­ac­tive web series Unit­ed Audi­ence. The first episode “Ali­enize” was pre­sent­ed as a pro­to­type at the Media Con­ven­tion Berlin 2017.

In 2018, three projects were devel­oped as part of DIGI.TALe and pre­sent­ed by the stu­dents at the Media Con­ven­tion:

  • Klara Hard­en (cin­e­matog­ra­phy stu­dent) with “Green City” (mul­ti­me­dia project)
  • Son­ja Aufderk­lamm (cin­e­matog­ra­phy stu­dent) and Julia Bru­ton (pro­duc­ing grad­u­ate) with “The Matriarx!”(VR project)
  • Christoph Rath (direct­ing stu­dent) with “Sind wir allein?” (ser­i­al inter­ac­tive short film for­mat)

The video of the Media Con­ven­tion 2018 can be found here.