Windfall Digital
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3 Mar 2006 2:03pm
Windfall Digital
Project Description
Domesday Live will be a tool (like Google Earth) for exploring Britain, both in the past and in the present. The BBC layer of Domesday Live will be moderated by the BBC, offering the best of its archive & making the most of its wide network of community links – but users of all kinds will create the other layers. Zoom in to any highlighted building or household, watch what is going on there live via web cam (or via any BBC live broadcast), or select available recent sounds, images or video. Then wind you history clock back, zoom in again to any highlighted community, and call up BBC shows & events filmed on the area selected, or archive material posted by people living there. Zoom in to your neighbour’s house, go back in time, and see their wedding photos… or wind back to 1979, select the BBC feed, and zoom in to Glastonbury to watch the BBC show that went out then. Make the tool personal to take you more efficiently to the content you want, or to connect you quickly to friends around the UK. Suddenly the map of Britain comes alive.
Company
WINDFALL FILMS has been making successful and often innovative shows for Channel 4, Channel 5, the BBC and others for many years. WINDFALL DIGITAL was formed as a joint venture with the Red Green & Blue Company just a year ago to bring together TV and interactive media production for an age of media convergence. Creative work to date includes interactive museum exhibits, broadband web sites, DVD ROM’s and DVD videos. Two of the directors, Max Whitby and Martin Freeth, were pioneers of interactive media and Online in the BBC.
